Bob and I are in a Super 8 motel, a dozen miles Southeast of Nashville. It's 5:45 am. We're heading out for Short Mountain Sanctuary. Yesterday we were almost undone by deer, several of them, dashing in front of our rented automobile, and the squalid conditions of a Tennessee motel, called, The Motel. There bugs everywhere in our room. I nearly had a heart attack. There were A set of red track pants in the drawer. We had to register our vehicle so the cops wouldn't tow it after midnight. The parking lot looked like the waiting room for the state penitentiary. IF the State Penn was Co-ed. I heard Cher singing "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" somewhere on the side of the road. We asked for our money back and but first I was asked to play the Banjo and squeal like a pig. Thank the lord for Super 8.Emotionally, Bob and I are in a rut. People back home are getting tired of our road act. Bob made me take a pit-stop in Belleville, Illinois, home of Jeff Tweedy, the lead singer of my favorite band, Wilco. Bob made wear a sandwich board that said, "WHERE IS JEFF TWEEDY?" and walk around an empty downtown Belleville for nearly an hour. We're in a rut, I tell you, a trough, a valley, if you will. We're like an old married couple. We've gone over the same ground conversationally, (Religion, Favorite Bands, How Bob Thinks He's Going to Die, Why I Yell For No Reason, Robots, Pink Hats, Bob's Family, The Time Bob Went on Stage at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and so on and so forth.
It's good to head out for another community.
Until then.
2 comments:
stick with it bugaboo. if people back home are tired of your antics, they probably just miss you. once you and bob make it through this rut, think how much stronger your pink bunny hat wearing, yelling for no reason relationship will be. go team!
I agree with Becky. Who are these people? This road trip has to do with you and Bob. This is something you have thought about and dreamt about. Keep going until you are finished(you and only you). They might miss you, but they are being selfish. They are not thinking about what you need, but what they need. They should be making it easier for you-not harder. UGH!
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