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Bilbo Back from a Long Journey

By Robin Bates | Published: May 20, 2019

Tuesday Julia and I returned home last night after 16 days on the road. Given that we traveled from Sewanee to Washington, D. C. to southern Maryland to Pennsylvania to Cincinnati to Des Moines and back to Sewanee, I lacked the energy to write a new post. I’ve therefore repurposed an old essay on the […]

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Gogol’s Guide to Traveling

By Robin Bates | Published: August 18, 2017

Friday I’m driving back to Maryland from Tennessee today and so have chosen a passage on traveling from Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls, which I’m listening to at the moment. I myself won’t have the same experience as Gogol’s traveler since I can’t lean back and fall asleep. Nevertheless, the passages reminds me of traveling by […]

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The Road Goes Ever On and On

By Robin Bates | Published: July 20, 2016

Tolkien’s “The Road Goes Ever On and On” is a good poem for travelers returning home.

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