{"id":7104,"date":"2016-11-23T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingstar.mx\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2024-01-15T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T18:01:27","slug":"homeward-onward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/2016\/11\/23\/homeward-onward\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeward, onward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I drove from Seattle to Los Angeles and then onward to Austin.
I picked up a couple of Russian hitchhikers in Tucson and they kept me company for the next 1,000 miles or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I was a little incredulous at their plans to sleep in a tent out in the desert.
\u201cWe are from Russia. And sleeping outside is good for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


They\u2019re on their way to Cuba and then South America via New Orleans and Ft Lauderdale. Any other week I would have taken them the whole way but its a company holiday, I\u2019m off all week, and I have plans for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


We swapped stories and they told me about working as harvesters out in the marijuana fields out in California and all the strange addicts and miscreants they\u2019d encountered along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\u201cOh boy, and then you ended up in a car with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I\u2019m glad they\u2019re experiencing the America that I know and love. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I appreciated having some company because Seattle to Austin is a long, long, long time to be out there alone on a highway and lost in your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their English was decent enough. One of them coined the term \u201cminery,\u201d as in a \u201cmine,\u201d and this prompted me to come up with ideas like a \u201cminery tour\u201d where you drive a convertible around the back woods of West Virginia and stop at every mine for a coal sample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


That sounds fun. I\u2019d totally do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I had a sad, and it was beautiful all the same, when one of the girls sang along to Anna Nalick\u2019s \u201c(2am) breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I told them that was the album\/song I was listening to when I was moving out of Key West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


I\u2019d barbacked at the 801\/New Orleans house and one of our DJs (Junior) played the Blake Jarrell remix of that song all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


They asked where they could set up a tent and I don\u2019t really do that sort of thing, so I took them up on the top of the 360 bridge overlook and I  found them a clearing in the woods. It was pitch black out, and boy aren\u2019t they in for a surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I drove from Seattle to Los Angeles and then onward to Austin.I picked up a couple of Russian hitchhikers in Tucson and they kept me company for the next 1,000 miles or so. I was a little incredulous at their plans to sleep in a tent out in the desert.\u201cWe are from Russia. And sleeping […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v4.fadingstar.mx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}