Thursday, November 26, 2009 - Poplar Bluff MO
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The Little Tug That Could, reworking a tow, Fort Defiance Park, Cairo IL, November 26, 2009
I took a few hours this Thanksgiving day to watch the tugs and tow boats go about their business at Fort Defiance Park at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in Cairo IL.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Poplar Bluff MO
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #19, 333 S Westwood, Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 - (573) 686-6420
- Nice level parking - to the right side of the lot away from the store
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Good service
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
More Toward Realism than Fantasy
I've always been drawn more toward realism than fantasy, because it seems to me that realism is endlessly interesting and finally indeterminable. Realism is a species of fantasy that's much more integrated and hard-core than fantasy itself, but if you are ready to come to grips with the inevitable slipperiness of most available facts, you come to recognize that realism is not a direct approach to the truth so much as it is the most concentrated form of fantasy.
Birds and Lions, Norman Mailer, the New Yorker, December 23 & 30, 2002