Angle to Key West: Across the Chesapeake (5/28)
Mockhorn Island, VA – May 28, 2013 A bridge stretches across the Chesapeake Bay’s wide mouth, dipping beneath the water and tunneling under shipping channels to make room for freighters […]
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Angle to Key West: Hard to Trust (5/27)
Norfolk, VA – May 27, 2013 “What’s going on here,” the woman said. I wanted to hear it in a mock-stern voice. I wanted to convince myself that she was […]
Angle to Key West: Son of International Falls (5/26)
Chesapeake, VA – May 26, 2013 Bob pulled out an old yearbook and we flipped through the pages. Black and white photos stared back at us. Football players and cheerleaders, […]
Angle to Key West: Locking the Dismal Swamp (5/25)
Chesapeake, VA – May 25, 2013 The oldest thing in this country with George Washington’s name on it isn’t a road or a monument. It isn’t a building or […]
Angle to Key West: Donuts (5/24)
North Carolina Welcome Center, NC – May 24, 2013 “I remember when we left that bakery in Sisters and you had too many donuts to fit in your pack,” Fester […]
Angle to Key West: Hot Dogs and Gorillas (5/23)
Elizabeth City, NC – May 23, 2013 Byron’s Hot Dog Stand takes up a narrow storefront in downtown Elizabeth City. The hot dogs are a dollar each, even with chili, […]
Angle to Key West: Elizabeth City (5/22)
Elizabeth City, NC – May 22, 2013 It’s been 22 days since I left Charleston. I haven’t had a day off. I haven’t taken a shower. Wind almost broke me. […]
Angle to Key West: Grey Walls (5/21)
South of Elizabeth City, NC – May 21, 2013 Where do you go three miles from land as storms race toward you on the wind? Where do you go when […]
Angle to Key West: Line in the Sand (5/20)
Past Point Harbor, NC – May 20, 2013 I followed the dune’s curve upward, rising above the trees and watching the water in the Atlantic and Albemarle Sound fall away […]
Angle to Key West: Sting (5/19)
Roanoke Island, NC – May 19, 2013 I slide into the sand a mile off Oregon Inlet. Without thinking much beyond a dull, fatalistic anger, I peel off my my […]
