Free Ballin’

Continuing my NBA VIEW ATLANTA HAWKS: You give a team enough lottery picks and it’s difficult to not be a good team.  If you draft  fairly well, your team will be very good, or better.  Or you could be the Hawks.  Ugh.  What a wrecked franchise.  I’ve written about it ad nauseam so I won’t go into [...]

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Oh, did I mention I arrived in Milwaukee?  Those of you smarties following me on Twitter know the score, of course, as I kept people pretty up to date that way, when I didn’t have an internet connection.  For the rest of you, I’ll update you, a post for each day on the road. 3/15 [...]

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It’s 7:19 am and I’m only about 45 minutes behind optimum schedule, which is pretty great for me.  Generally speaking, I’m never where I want to be, when I want to be there.  It’s the nature of vagabondizing around America without a car; you expect to be behind.  I’d prefer being out on the I [...]

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A hitchhiking video game would suck; no one would want to play.  Unless, perhaps, it were Hitchhiking Psycho, where you could make up your character, a la Sims, to make them more attractive to drivers, and then, when they stopped for you…  Umm, yeah, it could work, GTA style. So I’m Omaha, spending the night, [...]

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Tomorrow, I’m setting off for Milwaukee, bright and early—actually, dark and early.  I’ll be out the door around 5AM, to take public transportation to Troutdale, which is right on I-84 and (I’m told) chock full of truckstops.  Hopefully, I’ll catch a ride with an eastbound trucker. Google maps says it’s 2,064 miles from Portland to [...]

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