8 Hours

William Shunn
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That's how long a flight from Chicago to New York will take you. Today, anyway. But we're here, and if we hadn't flown standby on an earlier flight than the one we booked, we might not have left Chicago at all.

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William Shunn
William Shunn

Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. Creator of Proper Manuscript Format, Spelling Bee Solver, Tylogram, and more. Banned in Canada.

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800 Miles Behind Us, One Year Ago Tonight
Moving

800 Miles Behind Us, One Year Ago Tonight

Unaware of the severity of the storms on the horizon, two men and a dog set out on harrowing car trip from Chicago to New York City.

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Chicago

Flat Stanley in Chicago

Back in May as we were preparing to move back to New York, I realized that I had a visitor sitting on my desk. My nephew Mark in Utah had sent Flat Stanley my way, and for months I'd done nothing with him. The school year was soon

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Alcohol

RAGBRAI Recap: The Legacy

[ continued from yesterday ] █████ loves my Manhattans. I make them in the proper, original fashion, with rye and not bourbon. I always keep a bottle of Templeton rye on hand (though Bulleit rye is a fine choice too), along with Dolin sweet vermouth, Peychaud's bitters and Luxardo cherries. I

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Cycling

RAGBRAI Recap: The Road Home

[ continued from last week ] In retrospect, we probably could have come up with a solution that didn't involve throwing in the towel completely. We could have ridden each of the next two days until noon, then called for the support wagon and sat out the triple-digit afternoon heat.

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