Link of the day - From the Ground
From the Ground is a traveblogue, recording the experiences of a 45-year-old unemployed Mormon as he backpacks across the midwest USA and asks questions of his country and himself:
Is America still good? I mean to take a look, across the middle of the country, and report what I see, both bad and good: not from the comfort of an office or the pinnacles of prestige, but from the ground.
He writes well, with simple descriptions of the people and places he encounters, interspersed with deeper philosophising on community, trust and generosity – topics that would likely be on anyone’s mind when at the mercy of the kindness of strangers.
It’s the sort of road-trip that I might have fantasised about making ten years ago, back when I was full of romanticised notions of ‘the pull of the open road’.
Of course, I never followed through with any of my grand travel plans. I’m not sure whether that is a matter for regret or not – we are, after all, the sum of our experiences.
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