Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - Walmart, Jackson OH
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Mallards, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2011
Hint hint
I stopped in Marietta OH to get Bob Wark's take on what I'm dragging along in the trailer. Bob knows a wee bit about it and the story behind it and If it ever stops raining I'll open the trailer and show you what I'm up to.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jackson OH
Walmart Supercenter Store #1519, 100 Walmart Dr, Jackson, OH 45640 - (740) 288-2700
- Good level parking - request you park to the far right along the grass
- Verizon cell phone service - good signal
- Verizon EVDO 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.