Ken Ilgunas

Ah, the English countryside! I know of no American equivalent in lushness, in greenness, in pastoral glory. The color of the landscape...

“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...

Ah, the Old World! How thrilling it was to see the cradle of civilization, the green expanse of English farmland beneath the morning’s...

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...

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...

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,...

(Photo credit: Pete Churton) How would my journey end? Perhaps it would end heroically? I’d imagined that after months of toil and...

Kerry Emmanuel is a professor of climate science at MIT. He was a registered Republican, but he recently changed his political...

I was sitting on an olive-colored couch, in the lobby of an extravagantly-furnished church, surrounded by three preachers. I’d come to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Journalist Tim McDonnell from Mother Jones recently posted a video he put together, combining a video interview he and I did over Skype...

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...