Parade day
Labor Day in Winner feels like the Fourth of July; this is a patriotic place. At the morning parade the high school marching band plays On Wisconsin, and the band director looks resigned to the situation. Shriners, fire trucks, demolition derby cars, farm implements, and Miss Rosebud from the nearby Rosebud Indian reservation follow.
Sen. John Thune, who obviously regards me as an influential voter, stops to shake my hand. Various judges and state legislators are also campaigning, and afterward the American Legion serves barbecue.
I have a motel room, and I'm carried away with the comfort. I can lie on a bed whenever I want, stay clean all day, and walk up the street for something to eat. Fifty-five channels of TV! Just leave my stuff on the floor! What a place!
posted by Jeff Durbin @ 9/07/2006
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2 Comments:
Hi Jeff!
It's been fun to follow your trip and hear about all your encounters. I'd like to also hear more about how you're responding to the landscape itself. Are you enjoying it as much as expected? Gotten bored yet? What are you thinking about all those miles? Or does the mind go on cruise-control and you enter into the Zen flow of it all (at least when not focusing on not getting blown over)?
-Steve
Thanks for the comment, I'll try to add more on the landscape (though I'm about at my limit just keeping up!). I'm never bored riding, much to think about and look at, and always have to pay attention to road and cars with half of brain. I have to admit the scenery, at least at the time I see it, is not as enjoyable because I'm working hard. But it sinks in better on a bike, and I appreciate it afterward.
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