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Physical State of Matt #20: IOWA
If you had told me at the beginning of this trip that my week in Iowa would be one of the most action-packed yet, I’d have told you to...


Physical State of Matt #19: MASSACHUSETTS
I had only planned to visit my friends on Martha’s Vineyard for the weekend, but it was so idyllic I turned it into my Massachusetts...


Emotional State of Matt #13: HOME, SICK
In my travels, I am frequently asked "Where are you from?" and I never know how to answer. Do I say Ithaca, where I grew up? Do I say Los...


Physical State of Matt #18: NEW HAMPSHIRE
I don’t have much to say about New Hampshire other than I went there. It’s not that the state was awful or anything, I just didn't do a...


Physical State of Matt #17: MAINE
I was having a lot of big feelings as I departed Ithaca , on my way to the only New England state I had never visited. The two weeks I’d...


Physical State of Matt #16: MICHIGAN
Almost two hundred years before I entered Michigan's Upper Peninsula, this remote patch of wilderness helped prevent a war between two...
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