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The Booklet

Chris has turned his extraordinary blog into a booklet. You can download it here. Book launch: Two Wheels and Two Questions: A Journey through America in Search of Personal and National Identity by PNSR Senior Associate Christopher Holshek January 29, 2010 … Continue reading

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The Home Stretch – Is This a Great Country, Or What?

Once I left the Lincoln Boyhood National Monument in Indiana, I became progressively melancholic, for two reasons. First, fatigue, both physical and mental, was setting in.  Due to the interlude in Liberia, I had compressed especially the return half of … Continue reading

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The Heartland – The Paradox of American Leadership

After a long day’s ride through South Dakota, turning directly south from Sioux Falls to pick up the Louis & Clark Trail again in Iowa, I thought I had seen enough with the emotional visit to the Wounded Knee Museum.  … Continue reading

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The Great Plains – Real Americans

As impressed as I was with the quiet, uninhabited enormity and grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, coming down from as high as over 12,000 feet in elevation into the wide open spaces of Montana and into eastern Wyoming into South … Continue reading

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From West to East – America as the Global Engine of Connectivity

Sometimes it’s better to take a view of something the other way around in order to gain a more comprehensive appreciation of what was done and why. After leaving Yosemite along a 15-mile 7% declining road winding along a steep mountainside, I … Continue reading

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