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Sunday, May 3, 2009 - Poplar Bluff MO

Lava field dawn, Valley of Fires, Carrizozo NM, April 28, 2009
Lava field dawn, Valley of Fires, Carrizozo NM, April 28, 2009

It's still raining but forward progress is being made

The leaks still leak but the wind dropped during the day and my gas mileage picked up a little.

With a little luck I'll see some sun tomorrow. Yippeee!

Interesting signage at the Wal-Mart here in Poplar Bluff. One sign says no truck parking. The other says No parking or loitering outside business hours. The catch is the store is open 24 hours and yes I can park here overnight (I asked). Clever. I recall one other Wal-Mart, though not which one, with a similar ambiguous wording that had the effect of reducing RV overnights without actually prohibiting them. Must be a response to some community issue.

Night camp

Wal-Mart Supercenter in Poplar Bluff MO

Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #19, 333 S Westwood, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 - (573) 686-6420

Others Choose the Path of Healing

The labor camp in Erfurt and, after the war, the refugee camp in Mainz were all I knew when I came here [from Germany] in 1947 at the age of seven. Like many camp survivors, it was not the experience itself that dogged me as much as the why of it. The why seems clearer every day: those who see themselves as victims, nations included, have license to commit these things. Others choose the path of healing.

Michael Guran, architect, in Jesse Monongya, Opal Bears and Lapis Skies by Lois Sherr Dubin

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