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The Idea of Reality

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Chip Walter

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3d ago

The Discomfort of Not Comprehending

On writing, research, and the strange places ideas take us.

Writers implements arrayed on a dark table include a coffee mug, notebooks and a novel.

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Chip Walter

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Nov 3

What Trains Know That Airports Forgot

From Penn Station to the High Line to the green hills of Vermont, traveling without jets turns out to be less about distance and more about…

A massive train station with an arching glass-paned ceiling. Escalators descend in the center. People mill about.

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Chip Walter

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Oct 29

I Used AI to Create a Graphic Novel About AI — Part I

Things did not go as expected

I Used AI to Create a Graphic Novel About AI — Part I

Chip Walter

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Apr 16

Stood on Deck in the Pacific and Realized How Small We Are— Oct 5, 2022

Before bed I climbed to the top deck of the Hurtigruten ship carrying us from Miami toward Lima.

Stood on Deck in the Pacific and Realized How Small We Are— Oct 5, 2022

Chip Walter

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Apr 14

How to Write When You’re Sure It Will Be Terrible

Every writer faces the same fear. Here’s how to get past it.

How to Write When You’re Sure It Will Be Terrible

Chip Walter

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Jan 14

Walking Day Four of the Camnio Way — Caldes de Reis to Padrón (What a day!)

July 8, Day 4

Walking Day Four of the Camnio Way — Caldes de Reis to Padrón (What a day!)

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Read or Die!

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Chip Walter

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Dec 22, 2025

The Origin of Clement Clarke Moore’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

The Origin of Clement Clarke Moore’s “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

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Chip Walter

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Dec 7, 2025

Walking the Camino Way in Another Heat Wave

Pontevedra to Caldes de Reis

Walking the Camino Way in Another Heat Wave

Chip Walter

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Nov 25, 2025

Thank you!

I want to thank all of you who have been been sending your kind thoughts. It’s really appreciated. My apologies for not being in better…

Thank you!

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Oct 18, 2025

Camino de Santiago — Backpacks, Bagpipes, and a Recipe for Blisters

Setting out from Vigo, Spain, on the most famous Christian pilgrimage in Europe

Camino de Santiago — Backpacks, Bagpipes, and a Recipe for Blisters

Chip Walter

Chip Walter

Chip Walter is a National Geographic Explorer, former CNN bureau chief, screenwriter & author of Immortality, Inc. His latest novel is entitled Doppelganger.

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