Category: Travel
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It’s Friday. Let’s Go. (Detour #20)
We left New Jersey, got swallowed into the Lincoln Tunnel and were spit out into Manhattan. It was 5 o’clock on a Friday afternoon, the moment our New York adventure turned into a terror flick. People scurried five deep on the sidewalks, and more bodies spilled into the streets, a squirming mass of knees and…
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Before Fall Goes (Detour #19)
Campaign Manager: “Twenty-five percent of people are psychopaths.” Me: “Really? I sure hope that isn’t true.” Campaign Manager: “It is. A college professor told me so. And obviously the other party is full of psychopaths and that’s why they don’t care who they hurt.” Honest to God, she really said that. She called the other…
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The Devil Went Down To Arkansas (Detour #17)
In 1958, on a yacht floating in Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the devil died. His name was Norman Baker. In life, Baker had been gifted with the power of persuasion, a flair for showmanship that drew the eye of the weak and a nimble tongue that twisted itself to tell any story the vulnerable wanted to…
2000 Detours 