Another American Adventure: packed up, unpacked and packing up again

Thursday, October 4, 2012

packed up, unpacked and packing up again

More photos of just how packed up John was when he came back from PA to Florida. But, alas, we are in the packing up phase again and he is to set out for PA again on Saturday morning ... I hope to be up there again in November.

(not sure what this photo of Jubilee is doing here).

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BarbaraOctober 5, 2012 at 8:36 PM
Like the colour of the car. Safe trip to John!
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beth cioffolettiOctober 5, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Yep. Going to be very sad to see him go in the morning, but Jubilee and I hope to be following in about a month. We're just taking it one week at a time as far as planning goes, though.
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"In those first days, people said, a squirrel could run the long length of Pennsylvania without ever touching the ground. In those first days, the woods were white oak and chestnut, hickory, maple, sycamore, walnut, wild ash, wild plum, and white pine. The pine grew on the ridgetops where the mountains' lumpy spines stuck up and their skin was thinnest.

"The wilderness was uncanny, unknown. Benjamin Franklin had already invented his stove in Philadelphia by 1753, and Thomas Jefferson was a schoolboy in Virginia; French soldiers had been living in forts along Lake Erie for two generations. But west of the Alleghenies in western Pennsylvania, there was not even a settlement, not even a cabin. No Indians lived there, or even near there.

"Wild grapevines tangled the treetops and shut out the sun. Few songbirds lived in the deep woods. Bright Carolina parakeets - red, green, and yellow - nested in the dark forest. There were ravens then, too. Woodpeckers rattled the big trees' trunks, ruffed grouse whirred their tail feathers in the fall, and every long once in a while a nervous gang of empty-headed turkeys came hustling and kicking through the leaves - but no one heard any of this, no one at all."

Annie Dillard, An American Childhood.