Thursday, May 19, 2011 - Warren PA
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Shout Out, Red-tailed Hawk, Dugway Recreation Area, North Platte River, Sinclair WY, May 1, 2011
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Warren PA
Walmart Supercenter Store #3429, 2901 Market St, Warren, PA 16365 - (814) 723-2640
- 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.