Word: treks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STOP BUSING, WALLACE CAN. The first of the 3,261 cars in the caravan to complete the trek followed the designated route past the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol. Slowed by a slushy snowfall and wrong turns, the motorcade ended ineffectually in a traffic jam that stretched 25 miles back along Interstate...
...country for centuries, and even in such strongholds of downhill skiing as Switzerland and Italy, the sport has caught on remarkably in the past few years. Enthusiasts break their own trails through any convenient field or forest, skirting icy ponds, clambering over fences. Even for novices, a ten-mile trek is routine. Ski touring is much easier to learn than the alpine version: a beginner can pick up all he needs to know in a day or so, while downhill skill comes only after two or three weeks of intensive coaching, if then...
...height of the 1971 Broadway season, Kalem's satisfaction over his successful trek is a bit diluted by some of the shows he sees. Still, he cannot abandon the belief that theater "is the noblest of arts, a metaphysical ritual, an unbound volume of erotica, a childlike festival of clowns and kings, a never-surfeiting banquet for the eye, the ear and at times the soul...
Driving the 1,340 miles of Highway 95 from New York to Florida is at best a tiresome two-night, nine-meal trek. It costs about $150 for a group of four. But thousands of vacationers continue to make the grim odyssey rather than opt for relatively cheap air flights, for the simple reason that a Florida holiday virtually demands an automobile, and rentals there during peak seasons are prohibitive...
...kind of Russian roulette remained too a factor in my later life, so that without previous experience of Africa I went on an absurd and reckless trek through Liberia: it was the fear of boredom which took me to Tabasco during the religious persecution, to a leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong...