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September 9, 2004

Omaha, NE

The world is a wondrous place! I am lying in the back of The Egg parked at a Flying J truck stop after driving 500 miles across a griddle hot Colorado and Nebraska. I am actually lying in the back of the Egg while simultaneously typing to you because (and this is where I am astounded) the Flying J's are all WiFi! I feel more and more like a long haul trucker every single day, crossing this astoundingly large country and getting a first hand look at an economy of Wal-Marts and McDonalds infiltrating what were once dusty isolated towns. This afternoon I realized I was beginning to recognize the function of those previously enigmatic, enormous shrink wrapped rubber and metal parts one sees dangling from cluttered peg boards in any truck stop. These exotic fetishes have always seemed to me to be curious relics along the lines of asphalt kachinas, intricate paraphernalia of another world. Then one day you realize a rubber gasket is just a rubber gasket!
More soon from another Flying J...on to Minneapolis!
xo
B

Posted by bethamsel at September 9, 2004 10:14 PM