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FenianSOB's avatar

Hey, lady. Just a brief note to let you know that I am still alive and that the Pacific Northwest is calling me home. 19 years in the desert means that I will be cold the first winter and then should rapidy be used to it again. New wife, new cats, will be a new house, and life will be less jarringly unpleasant. I think your work is always inspired. I would like to hear music where you laugh, though. Pictures of you laughing are priceless...sound probably is to.

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JhnG's avatar

Roads that have devolved to dirt tracks in the woods may approach immortality in map archives. These same archives may be pulled into GPS maps with little or no details about the current condition of the road. As a former novice to how these roads function in Vermont, I readily admit that rather than a lofty rush of self sufficiency or exalted and magical communion with nature, I had a different experience:

White knuckled dread that I would break an axel or have my oil pan scrapped off. I would be found weeks later mummified with hands tightly wrapped on on the steering wheel.

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