Friday, May 6, 2011 - Kearney NE
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American Robin, Dugway Recreation Area, Sinclair WY, May 1, 2011
Humid
The party is over. I'm barely halfway across Nebraska and already I'm in the soup.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Kearney NE
Kearney Walmart Supercenter Store #598, 5411 2Nd Ave, Kearney, NE 68847 - (308) 234-8448
- No level parking - no trucks - I used the adjacent Hilltop Mall lot to the south.
- Verizon cell phone service- good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - good
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Beware of Hypnotic Media
To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be. They have planned a life for you — from the cradle to the grave and beyond — which it would be easy, fatally easy!, to accept. The least wandering of the attention, the least relaxation of your awareness, and already the eyelids begin to droop, the eyes grow vacant, the body starts to move in obedience to the hypnotist’s command. Wake up, wake up — before you sign that seven-year contract, buy that house you don’t really want, marry that girl you secretly despise. Don’t reach for the whiskey, that won’t help you. You’ve got to think, to discriminate, to exercise your own free will and judgment. And you must do this, I repeat, without tension, quite rationally and calmly. For if you give way to fury against the hypnotists, if you smash the radio and tear the newspapers to shreds, you will only rush to the other extreme and fossilize into defiant eccentricity.