Touring tourism in Scotland
Ah, the English countryside! I know of no American equivalent in lushness, in greenness, in pastoral glory. The color of the landscape...
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Ken Ilgunas
- Sep 19, 2013
Travels to Stonehenge and up the family tree
“It’s our yankee family member!” said Margaret, a Scottish relative who I was meeting for the first time. After Paris, I took the train...
Ken Ilgunas
- Sep 15, 2013
Out and about in Paris and London
Ah, the Old World! How thrilling it was to see the cradle of civilization, the green expanse of English farmland beneath the morning’s...
Ken Ilgunas
- Sep 5, 2013
The way to Wigtown
So I’m off on an adventure. This one, to travel the British Isles for 45 days. A while back, I was invited to speak at the Wigtown Book...
Ken Ilgunas
- Aug 9, 2013
On being famous
Walden on Wheels got off to a slow start. Despite a few well-placed op-eds in the New York Times and Chronicle of Higher Ed., the...
Ken Ilgunas
- May 23, 2013
How to walk across the country (Part IV: Gear)
Previous installments: Part #1: How to create maps / Part #2: How to plan for food / Part #3: How to pack and ship your food I haven’t...
Ken Ilgunas
- May 6, 2013
How to walk across the country (Part III: Packaging and shipping)
Previous installments: Part #1: How to create maps & Part #2: How to plan for food Now that we’ve created maps and bought food, we can...
Ken Ilgunas
- May 3, 2013
How to walk across the country (Part II: Food)
In Part I, I discussed how to map out your route using mapping software programs and websites. In this installment, I’ll discuss how to...
Ken Ilgunas
- May 1, 2013
How to walk across the country (Part I: Mapping)
This past fall and winter, I walked 1,700 miles on a never-done-before journey across Canada and the United States. My route led me over...
Ken Ilgunas
- Apr 19, 2013
A hiking epilogue and a published book
So I’ve been running around the past couple of months. After I finished my hike in February, a guy named Woody Welch from New Braunfels,...
Ken Ilgunas
- Feb 8, 2013
Day 146: Port Arthur, Texas–the final day
(Photo credit: Pete Churton) How would my journey end? Perhaps it would end heroically? I’d imagined that after months of toil and...
Ken Ilgunas
- Feb 4, 2013
Book Recommendation: "What We Know about Climate Change"
Kerry Emmanuel is a professor of climate science at MIT. He was a registered Republican, but he recently changed his political...
Ken Ilgunas
- Feb 2, 2013
Day 140: Rye, Texas–85 miles from Port Arthur
I was sitting on an olive-colored couch, in the lobby of an extravagantly-furnished church, surrounded by three preachers. I’d come to...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 29, 2013
Video Diary: Round 2
For the first 10 videos from my trip, go back to this blog post. This is footage from my flight over the Tar Sands of Northern Alberta. I...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 28, 2013
Day 133: Texas
I’d begun to feel a little wimpy. In Oklahoma, because I’d been so terrified of the abject poverty, insane dogs, and men walking towards...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 20, 2013
An article about my hike for Salon.com
Today, an article I wrote printed in Salon.com. It’s an overview of my hike from the beginning until I reached Albion, Nebraska, which...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 14, 2013
Day 122: Oklahoma-Texas border
There may be nothing scarier than watching a man walk toward your tent, carrying a large object, in the middle of the night, in an...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 11, 2013
Video interview with Mother Jones
Journalist Tim McDonnell from Mother Jones recently posted a video he put together, combining a video interview he and I did over Skype...
Ken Ilgunas
- Jan 5, 2013
Day 112: Cushing, Oklahoma
I am terrified of Oklahoma. Nearly every moment of the nine days I’ve walked in Oklahoma have been spent in a state of fear. This is...