Sunday, November 18, 2007
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I'm heading south
It's always been my traveling style to head off in a general direction and let the winds carry me along wherever my whims blow. Today my whims are blowing south. More or less down along the western flank of the Appalachian mountains. The Graphical Forecasts at Weather.gov lead me to think the prevailing weather is about the same as I would see following the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys I had planned on following. We'll see.
Night camp: Wal-Mart parking lot in Whitehall WV
Our Peripheral Existence
Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang on, or to creep singly up into the major folds of the garment. Our peripheral existence, however, was something we had learned to deal with, probably because it was abstract.
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison