On a beautiful June day, we walked from Paw Paw to Kalamazoo. My feet had adjusted to the daily pounding, and I was feeling good. The On the Ground to Ground the Drones group had bonded and it felt good to walk through Michigan with my walker family. little pieces of sunlight by the side […]

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

Betsy and Ann took me to the seashore on Monday, April 27th. We traveled west from Bend and descended from the snowy mountains to lower, greener ground. The view from the car window was spectacular. I saw tall mountains covered with snow and valleys. I saw large bodies of water and towns and farms. After

The Oregon Garden is an 80-acre botanical garden, located in Silverton, an historic town in Marion County. One interesting feature of Silverton, which I did not see during my visit, is the Frank Lloyd Wright house, located next to the Oregon Garden. It is known as the Gordon house. You can find more information about

Smith Rock was one of those places that I’d never imagined that I’d see. It is a huge rock formation, located just east of Terrebonne. Millions of years ago, it was an active volcano, but that was during the miocene epoch, when the climate of what is now central Oregon was considered semi-tropical to tropical.

Tumalo Falls is located just ten miles outside of Bend. It is quite an impressive sight: a waterfalls with an 89 feet plunge. Betsy and I hiked around Tumalo Falls but the walk ended rather abruptly because I started slipping and sliding on all of that snow! I did not think to bring along footwear