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Sunday, May 22, 2011 - Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Enough already - can we move on?, San Antonio NM, April 21, 2010
Enough already - can we move on?, San Antonio NM, April 21, 2010

That's it

I'm back in Red Rock for the summer. Cell phone and internet access is not available here so Journal updates will be sporadic at best. In fact if this summer's posts follow last years pattern, I won't be posting again until I head back out on the road in the fall. We'll see...

Night camp

The Home Place, Red Rock, East Chatham NY

Ask What Surprised Them

I was afraid of flying for a long time and could only travel vicariously. When friends came back from faraway places, it wasn't just out of politeness that I asked what they saw. I really wanted to know. And I found the best way to get information out of them was to ask what surprised them. How was the place different from what they expected? This is an extremely useful question. You can ask it of the most unobservant people, and it will extract information they didn't even know they were recording.

The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004

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