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Small-town America from 400 feet. Drone essays on the places the interstate forgot, with the history of who built them. One full essay a month, flight logs from the road in between.

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After the Run

After the 5K everybody spilled into the lot behind the hall. Folding tables and coolers lined the stone wall, a blue Samos Club tent at one end, a Greek flag hung off the building next door. Finishers stood around in the heat, medals still...

a month ago
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The Mt Olympus Run

Mt Olympus Run, a 5K the Samos Club of Cleveland puts on for the church and the rest of Tremont. The course runs the Cuyahoga past the gravel mountains and the rail line, then drops you into the new park beside Annunciation to finish. Kids...

a month ago
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The Domes the Freeway Couldn't Move

If you’ve driven the inner belt through Cleveland, you’ve seen it. You just didn’t stop.

Coming off I-90 onto the West 14th ramp the road bends, and there it is. Three domes and a row of gold crosses, sitting maybe a stone’s throw off the...

a month ago
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Carter Woods Park

Six pickleball courts on one side. Soccer fields on the other. And a deer highway running right down the middle.

Carter Woods Park in Grand Chute, Wisconsin hides a wild corridor most people walk right past.

The parking lot won't tell you...

a month ago
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The North Jetty

The rain started the second I had the drone up. A Gulf drizzle, the kind that blows in sideways off the water for ten minutes and quits before you've decided whether to pack up. My niece was in town. She'd brought her boyfriend, and my seco...

2 months ago
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    I fly drones over the parts of America you drive past. Small towns, old buildings, the history underneath them. One full essay a month at The Drone Drifter, flight logs and daily notes in between.

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