Monday, May 10, 2010 - Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO
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My Blue Buds, Spiderwort, Lyndon KS, May 9, 2010
I quit
What a miserable day to drive. Gusty headwindy. Raining. Bah! I pulled into the first place I found - this little community RV park just 70 miles into my days drive. Enough already.
Kansas State flowerpot
On my eastbound route this morning I passed a nicely kept white painted old farm silo. You see these old silos everywhere around farm country where time and technology has outrun their function. But rarely cared for. And this is a first for me - bursting forth well above the top of the silo is a full grown hardwood tree. In better weather I'd have stopped for a picture. By the time I got to the KS line I saw several more well tended silo "pots" - enough to name them the Kansas State Flowerpot.
What an elaborate killdeer nest
Yeah, right - a slight depression in the crushed stone drive of the next site over - filled with crushed stone colored eggs. I never would have found it if momma hadn't gone nuts feigning a broken wing as I walked by, nearly stepping in the nest. This park may be lightly used but even so it'll be a miracle if this pair can raise a family and get 'em fledged before disaster strikes. I'll see if I can get a picture tomorrow morning when the rain is forecast to let up. Seems I've said that a lot today.
Night camp
Site 5 - Freeman Community Club RV Park, Freeman MO
- This small roadside RV park offers 8 pullthrough campsites with 30/50 AMP electric, water and sewer for $15.00 per day
- There are no rest room facilities available.
- Good Verizon cell phone and EVDO service
- Find the Freeman Community Club RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
This is Easy
Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
Nuremberg Diary, Herman Goring, interviewed at Nuremberg by Gustave Gilbert