Thursday, November 11, 2010 - Frankfort KY
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Barberry, Red Rock, East Chatham NY, August 31, 2010
Enough already
I'm one of those travelers who much prefers backroads to the Interstate highway system s when I headed out for the winter I headed out across southern NY, down across PA, and into WV largely on secondary roads and got my faith in the local's driving skills reaffirmed.
Well now lemme tell ya; Pennsylvania and West Virginia have some pretty good and some mighty twisty roads through their endless mountain hollers. And what a hoot they are to drive and I've driven them before.
Posted speed limits are way more than adequate to get your blood flowing in a largely futile attempt to stay with the locals - especially driving this old RV! Those locals can DRIVE and drive fast and well. Little old ladies in subcompacts, good ol' boys in big pickups and heavy equipment haulers and dump trucks alike. Oh, and the school busses keep right up too.
Unlike folks on more civilized roads one can't let the mind wander and they don't. Their lane discipline is amazing in these unforgiving blind corners and thank-you-ma'ms. This kind of driving is WAY too much fun to ruin it splat against a hard place. These people have a skill set to be proud of.
Two days of this outrageous fun was about all I could take and once I emerged from the hollers this morning I hit the interstates and made such good time I might sleep west of the Mississippi tomorrow night. Not bad progress all things considered.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Frankfort KY
Walmart Supercenter Store #720, 301 Leonardwood Rd, Frankfort, KY 40601 - (502) 875-5533
- This Walmart Supercenter is at the intersection of US 127 and I-64 south of Frankfort KY.
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - very good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Life is to be Lived, Not Controlled
No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me. I lived a public life and attempted to function under the assumption that the world was solid and all the relationships therein. Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health. Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern.
.... Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? - diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states. Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that were to happen. .....Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat.