Traveling with Twain

In Search of America's Identity

Trip update: We’ve recalculated our estimated distance

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Original estimates pegged the Twain Trip as a 9,000-mile journey. Laughable! Our odometer probably knew this from the beginning, but 9,000 miles is much too conservative for a three-month road trip. We’ve hit 8,500 miles, and we’re only in Kansas. Rather than meet our original goal, call it quits and skip the West, we recalculated. This is now a 855,360,000-inch journey.

That’s 13,500 miles.

Alyssa

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About Alyssa Karas

Alyssa Karas (b. May 16, 1989) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated in June from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. At Medill she wrote for the online and magazine editions of North by Northwestern and then served as editor-in-chief of NU Intel, an online publication. Outside of Medill Alyssa has reported for the metro desk of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, written commercials for Pittsburgh television station WTAE, covered courts for The Oregonian, and this summer worked for the Indianapolis Star as a Pulliam Fellow.

One thought on “Trip update: We’ve recalculated our estimated distance”

  1. Dan Tham on said:

    “… recalculating.”
    -Linda

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