Saturday, May 19, 2012 - Erie PA
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Full Moon Rising, Caballo Lake State Park, NM, May 5, 2012
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Erie PA
Walmart Supercenter Store #2278, 1825 Downs Dr, Erie, PA 16509 - (814) 864-7330
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service- Good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - 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.