Fourth New State:

Vermont, which clears out new england, for me. I learned this morning that their official motto is ‘Freedom and Unity,’ and I more than fully approve of this. Built in dramatic tension, in three words. Or two, if you use the ‘&’ which occurs in the official seal.

We’re camping out semi-legitimately, behind a brewery and beside a stream. Ate couscous & canned lentils and prosciutto, cooked over a camp stove, and it was delicious — better for sure than the (very decent) pub fare eaten a few hours earlier. And it’s chilly, so sleeping bags will be necessary. Perhaps it’d be nicer to have a fluffy pillow and a bed, but it’s good to justify gear — shit’s heavy, for one thing. Or really, that’s the only thing. Shit’s heavy, and heavy is bad. Warm food, though, is way more good than any sort of heavy.

Bathed this evening in a public bathroom using Dr. Bronner’s, running between the stall and public space while covering my junk w/ hands in order to soap up one set of towels while wetting another. Certain people would call me a filthy fucking hippy, and though the accusation doesn’t quite hit, there isn’t a whole lotta defense.

New Hampshire is done, which means that two road signs may well be also through — first, the three lines at 120deg from each other, w/ an arrow off of one of the upward pointing ones (indicating there’s a road abutting the main road, as it curves) and the sign saying ‘densely settled’. Leslie, a temporary rider for Saturday (and would that it were longer) said that as a kid, she’d always thought that this meant the pavement was thick. I heard this, and thought: ‘what else could it mean?’. No ‘densely settled’ signs in MI, y’see.

9:16, and I’m rather boozey on three beers. Up is down in these parts, y’see.

WELL then,
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