Valerie on her birthday in Minneapolis, demonstrating how to get off of an air mattress:
running through the sprinklers!
the closest I will ever come to being Catholic:
The El:
Birmingham:
heart of the country:
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At a tourist trap
in Kentucky: dinosaurs?
I prefer blue grass.
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It's not the heat,
it's the humidity. Oh Lord,
air conditioning!
15
Finally broke down
and got flip-flops in Nashville;
Meg bought cowboy boots!
16
Mrs. B's on Fourth
in Birmingham: our first stop!
Macaroni, dudes.
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A storage unit,
Humid air, a pack of friends,
a knot in my gut.
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The Mississippi
sunset is stunning tonight.
Thank you, pollution.
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One thing the Northwest
and the South have in common:
green stretching for miles.
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The night air throbbing
with life, so thick with moisture
you're under water.
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Lightning surrounding
us as we exit Memphis.
True humbling power.
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Hot and cold, we go
there and back again, like the
air conditioning.
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St. Louis buses
look the same as those back home:
it's a reminder.
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Leaving St. Louis
on 64-West when we
see corn, just like that.
