July 2014

Michigan is a state that I had never visited in the past. When I travel via bus or train to Chicago, I don’t go into Michigan. I go through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois… but no Michigan. If I were to travel via Canada, I would go into Michigan. But I digress. I […]

a pantoum about day two of the on the ground to ground the drones walk (Chicago to Battle Creek) I walk past shells of old industrial plants, In a place that time erased from existence, So close to the skyscrapers of Chicago Yet this poisoned place feels like a different world. In a place that

Diane Lopez Hughes and Maya Evans explore Michigan City. For two nights, a campsite at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was our home. It was not only home to us and a variety of other campers, it was also home to a large quantity of mosquitoes and other biting insects. The insects discovered Maya Evans

It rained all day on June 4th. The sky was a dull gray, as was the landscape. We walked past the decayed shells of former industrial plants. The heavy industry that had not been abandoned belonged to oil companies, mostly BP. Much of the housing had been abandoned and was boarded up. The air smelled

Stretching hands on a long bus ride. That was my view of the person sitting in front of me. On June 3rd, I arrived in Chicago, after riding on buses all night. Oh, that was one wild adventure. The bus to Cleveland was an easy ride but the bus from Cleveland to Chicago? Well, that