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Every so often we need to interrupt our regular lives and go off and live in a tent. I don t say this for the usual benefits associated with camping--the simpler living and getting close to the outdoors, though those things go far in renewing our perspective. More importantly, we need to spend time away from home, constructing a shelter at night, taking it down in the morning and moving on, because that gets us close to a truth we usually deny. We are merely passing through this life.
Last summer I drove the Al-Can highway to Alaska, carrying my three dogs in the back of my small car. I spent two weeks traveling...
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