Thursday, October 27, 2011 - Walmart, Corydon IN
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Bent Convert, December 6, 1998
In the trailer
This old 1976 Moto Guzzi Convert and I have had quite a tumultuous relationship. We've been places, seen things. I thought we were done with all that but we're not.
Also
An old 1970's Watsonian Squire sidecar that's been on and off this Convert and in and out of my life more than once. Sorry to say I don't have a picture of it with me. It's an earlier version of the ST3 currently in production. It's going back on the Convert.
That's the plan.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Corydon IN
Walmart Supercenter Store #922, 2363 Highway 135 Nw, Corydon, IN 47112 - (812) 738-4551
- 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
A Voyage and a Harbor
The native American was forced westward by the young escaping the limits of east coast villages that had been established only a generation or two earlier by parents escaping the limits of European villages. From then on, whether seeking a whale, rafting with Huck Finn, easy riding with Peter Fonda, or next week in Cancun, there has been a strong belief in America that happiness lies somewhere else. And yet as we find freedom we also rediscover loneliness. As geographer Yi-Fu Tuan says, we require both shelter and venture. We need freedom and support, silence and cacophony, the vast and distant but also the warm and near, a voyage and a harbor, the great adventure and the hobbit hole. Much of the iconography of our times gives little sense of this. Instead, the individual is treated as a self-sufficient, self-propelled vehicle moving across a background of other things, other places, and other people.