it's not a highway it's a journey
i've decided the next road trip i take shall be through the northeast. at least i'd like it that way. it's an area of the country i have NEVER seen or explored or know anything about really, at all.
vermont. new hampshire. connecticut. those three. mainly vermont.
maybe maine. of course massachusetts would be lovely, i'm sure. but i want to see the countryside, not the cities. i have no yearning to travel through boston.
i've been reading raymond mungo's total loss farm: a year in the life and the doris zine anthology by cindy crabb and mungo talks about a commune he lived on in vermont and cindy tells stories about her time in the state, of walking home to her tree house in the pitch black. and sometimes it was so dark i couldn't even see the path. i'd have to look up and see where the tree tops parted to the sky, that's how i found my way home. following the sky path.
when my friend sarah visited vermont this summer she sent me an email that said:
The community here in the Adirondack region is really special. Maybe it's b/c the winter Olympics were up here in 1980 or something, I don't know, but anyways, at this time of year - right after labor day - I feel like this place just promotes people to have a vagrant lifestyle. There is SO MUCH state land everywhere to camp on, and no one ever seems to care or to kick people off. Hitchhikers get picked up real quickly and taken to where they want to go, everyone is so friendly, and on top of that, there is AMAZING hiking, paddling, and rockclimbing all around. This place seriously gives me hope that America isn't such a shitty place after all. I mean, I realize that there are a ton of remote locations out west where you can be a vagrant, hitchhiking and camping on federal or state land with no one bothering you, but here in the Adirondacks, I am not far from civilization at all BUT the vagrant lifestyle still seems really possible here. It just warms my heart.
not that i'm dying to be a vagrant or anything. but people seem really laid back and friendly over there. there's something about the land. one time i interviewed a couple of volunteers at the riverwest co-op and there was a little boy in there helping out. and he piped up, in vermont there's co-ops everywhere you go! he was about ten.
vermont. new hampshire. connecticut. those three. mainly vermont.
maybe maine. of course massachusetts would be lovely, i'm sure. but i want to see the countryside, not the cities. i have no yearning to travel through boston.
i've been reading raymond mungo's total loss farm: a year in the life and the doris zine anthology by cindy crabb and mungo talks about a commune he lived on in vermont and cindy tells stories about her time in the state, of walking home to her tree house in the pitch black. and sometimes it was so dark i couldn't even see the path. i'd have to look up and see where the tree tops parted to the sky, that's how i found my way home. following the sky path.
when my friend sarah visited vermont this summer she sent me an email that said:
The community here in the Adirondack region is really special. Maybe it's b/c the winter Olympics were up here in 1980 or something, I don't know, but anyways, at this time of year - right after labor day - I feel like this place just promotes people to have a vagrant lifestyle. There is SO MUCH state land everywhere to camp on, and no one ever seems to care or to kick people off. Hitchhikers get picked up real quickly and taken to where they want to go, everyone is so friendly, and on top of that, there is AMAZING hiking, paddling, and rockclimbing all around. This place seriously gives me hope that America isn't such a shitty place after all. I mean, I realize that there are a ton of remote locations out west where you can be a vagrant, hitchhiking and camping on federal or state land with no one bothering you, but here in the Adirondacks, I am not far from civilization at all BUT the vagrant lifestyle still seems really possible here. It just warms my heart.
not that i'm dying to be a vagrant or anything. but people seem really laid back and friendly over there. there's something about the land. one time i interviewed a couple of volunteers at the riverwest co-op and there was a little boy in there helping out. and he piped up, in vermont there's co-ops everywhere you go! he was about ten.