A Walk in the Woods
"What do you want me to do? You're hysterical enough for both of us." "I think I have a right to be a trifle alarmed, pardon me. ...
down. Actually, my grandmother could have gotten it down. "Maybe not," I said, disappointed. "Well, you know what I've got in he ...
Unluckily for them, they were the wrong kind of people. In the 1920s, sociologists and other academics from the cities ventured ...
off to filter water and fell in the creek. Even Katz agreed that this was better than TV. For the first time since we had left N ...
When people bleat on about the trail being too crowded, what they mean is that the shelters are too crowded, and this is indubit ...
"Eight miles! Lord. And how far'll you go this afternoon?" "Oh, maybe another eight miles." "No kidding! Sixteen miles on foot? ...
trail. In some places, friends of the trail will hike up to shelters with homemade cookies or platters of fried chicken. It's qu ...
It turned out to be an awful day in nearly every way. In the early afternoon, I discovered that I had lost my backpack raincover ...
Katz nodded in understanding and stood up. "Ladies and gentlemen," he announced, "can I have your attention for a minute? Excuse ...
"To tell you the truth, I'm amazed we've come this far," he said, and I agreed. We had hiked 500 miles, a million and a quarter ...
knowing that my family waited, that the car was badly parked, that it was nearly rush hour in Washington), so we parted awkwardl ...
cooked on a temperamental stove. Now, moreover, there would be all the perils that come with warmer weather: wild and lively lig ...
ammunition was in the hands of a small band of lunatics, the president, James Buchanan, dispatched Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee (at th ...
Service with so little funds to do a proper job. When the park had been formed, there had been money enough to buy only about ha ...
"If you're interested, there's a book about one of the murders," she said and reached below the counter. She rooted for a moment ...
His victory at Harpers Ferry, the greatest triumph for the Confederacy in the Civil War, was almost entirely because for once he ...
I had this brought home to me with a certain weep-inducing force as I stood in a parking lot in a place called Caledonia State P ...
Claudia Brenner, who also happened to be lesbians, excited the attention of a disturbed young man with a rifle, who shot them ei ...
into the leafy void. The noise came again, nearer. Whatever it was, it was coming my way! Whimpering quietly but sincerely, I ra ...
refined into lucrative products like paraffin and kerosene. Western Pennsylvania boomed inordinately. In three months, as John M ...
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