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Thursday, January 10, 2008 - Alpine TX

Untitled, Foscue Creek Park, Demopolis AL, December 22, 2007
Untitled, Foscue Creek Park, Demopolis AL, December 22, 2007

Oil field supply companies have lots of new tanks and equipment in stock. Trucks are carrying oversize loads of fancy equipment about. The t(h)reat of $100.00 per barrel oil seems to have lit the entrepreneurial fires in these parts.

Today's journey

US 67 from San Angelo, Texas, Texas to Alpine, Texas.

Night camp

Pecan Grove RV Park, Alpine TX

Pecan Grove RV Park, Alpine TX

Skepticism is Helpful

If you want to notice things that seem wrong, you'll find a degree of skepticism helpful. I take it as an axiom that we're only achieving 1% of what we could. This helps counteract the rule that gets beaten into our heads as children: that things are the way they are because that is how things have to be. For example, everyone I've talked to while writing this essay felt the same about English classes-- that the whole process seemed pointless. But none of us had the balls at the time to hypothesize that it was, in fact, all a mistake. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting.

The Age of the Essay, Paul Graham, September 2004

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