May 07, 2008 - I'm back home in Red Rock
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Parked in the lower driveway for the summer, May 8, 2008
LD and I pass the test
LD, this old Lazy Daze RV, and I passed the test with flying colors - the test to see if my twenty year old dream of traveling full time about the country via RV has legs.
It has legs alright - strong, sturdy legs.
It's been a great trip. This old Lazy Daze has proven to be a comfortable place to live and has taken me to many new places and introduced me to some wonderful new friends this past winter that I want get to know better. I can hardly wait to get back out there again next fall to continue the adventure. Balloon Fiesta here we come!
Night camp
At home in Red Rock (near Chatham in Columbia County, New York)
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.