Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - Sayre PA
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Ya know, I think it is indeed a 7D., San Antonio NM, April 21, 2010
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Sayre PA
Walmart Store #2208, 1887 Elmira St, Sayre, PA 18840 - (570) 888-9791
Please note that the entrance access to this Walmart is tight - I wouldn't recommend entering with anything much larger than a Class C.
- Good level parking - most with a gentle slope
- Verizon cell phone service- Very good signal
- Verizon EVDO Broadband service - Very 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.