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Robel walking a moving walkway in Chicago O'Hare's underground tunnel with a luggage trolley, the ceiling lit by changing neon  colors.

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Travel days

The connective tissue between the real stops. A terminal at O'Hare with a ceiling worth looking up at. An Alaska mural on a wall in Anchorage. A vintage Airstream in Talkeetna selling spinach bread. A picnic table by a river. Eklutna Lake when the clouds finally lifted halfway.

Anchorage and Talkeetna, Alaska 61.2181, -149.9003

  • Robel standing in front of a large 'Greetings From Alaska' postcard-style mural with a grizzly bear, glacier, and the northern  lights.
  • A polished silver Airstream food trailer in Talkeetna selling Brazilian limeade and spinach bread, under a striped umbrella.
  • A wooden cabin porch with hanging flower buckets and a man in a beanie standing near a picnic table looking out at the river.
  • Robel in a green rain shell standing on the pebbled shore of Eklutna Lake, with low clouds wrapped around the surrounding ridges.

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