Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - Walmart, Cambridge OH
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Camped, Walmart, Cambridge OH, October 25, 2011
Tows great
Really? Yeah, I hardly know it's back there. Kinda big isn't it? That's the camera messing with you. All I can see in the mirrors is the fenders. What's in it? You'll see.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Cambridge OH
Walmart Supercenter Store #3262, 61205 Southgate Rd, Cambridge, OH 43725 - (740) 439-5743
- Good level parking - request you park out along the guardrail
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - good signal but slow
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
It was the Crickets
Now then: it isn't so much that one way of dying beats another, though that certainly is the case, but rather that when you KNOW the jig could be up any second or any decade -- it's the awareness that's important -- that just might make a difference. I'm like everybody else, I have these moments and then forget, lapsing back into "immortality." But there was a thing that happened in my back yard maybe 18 months before we split from Maryland that hit me as hard as seeing their president drop dead on stage must have hit those graduating seniors.
It was the crickets. I'd gone outside one warm fall evening to shut the garage door and suddenly realized I couldn't hear the crickets! No wait, I could, but only if I turned my head a certain way. Oh God, oh no: I had almost no high-frequency hearing in my right ear, or was it my left? That doesn't matter. The point is, a part of me had shut down permanently. No, it hadn't happened suddenly, but I had finally noticed, and that was hard to take. I'd never again hear crickets like I once had. Never! I walked back to the house in tears. All right, I'm sensitive. But I understood at once what all this meant.