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I always wanted to ride to the ends of the earth ….
For years , I viewed Pennsylvania as one big rectangular obstacle . Fresh out of college , I got a job in the Hudson Valley of New York that was low on pay and free of prestige . But the country was in a recession that remains a reference point in today ’ s news stories (“… the unemployment rate is the worst since …”), so I was glad to find any job in my field . Worst of all , because I was required to have a car , I had to trade a perfectly reliable motorcycle for a rust bucket of a car and I began the only motorcycle-less era of my adult life .