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Ken Ilgunas

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Ken Ilgunas was born in Ontario, and raised in Wheatfield -- a small town in western New York where his family still lives. At the moment, he's either tending a friend's garden in Stokes County, North Carolina, or traveling cross-country in his van. ...more

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Movie review: "Don't Look Up"

Don't Look Up" is a flawed but useful movie that comprehensively and necessarily satirizes Stupid America.

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I'd say 4 out of 5 jokes, especially in the first half of the movie, missed their mark. The key to good satiric humor is subtlety, yet McKay chooses to bludgeon us over the head with a comedic club: from a cowboy being sworn in as Supreme Court justice, to a presidential sex scandal Read more of this blog post »

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Average rating: 3.96 · 10,638 ratings · 1,276 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,929 ratings — published 2013 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland 3.81 avg rating — 2,150 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back 4.02 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The McCandless Mecca: A Pilgrimage to the Magic Bus of the Stampede Trail by Ken Ilgunas (Goodreads Author), Josh Spice (Photographer) 3.91 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Walk across Suburbia: One Man's Journey through his Neighborhood 3.54 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to do is take one step at a time, place one foot in front of the other, and refuse to turn back until you’ve given everything you have.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom

tags: goals, mountains

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“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.”
― Ken Ilgunas

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“We need so little to be happy. Happiness does not come from things. Happiness comes from living a full and exciting life.”
― Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom

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