From: Rick DeMent
To: Greg Eriksen
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 6:02 PM
Subject: RE: Soap, Salt Pork, Trail Mix, Tofu

> Hey Greg!
>
> It's nice to hear from you.  I'm a bit on the jealous side.  This sounds like a
> once in a lifetime adventure, and alas, adventures of this magnitude take
> character, heart, guts, and a number of other things that have completely
> atrophied in my Leave it to Beaver life.  I am encouraged by the fact that I
> have friends to live vicariously through.
>
> ... Also If you can work it out, take Amtrak to DC.  I always wanted to go
> somewhere by train and remember you're adventuring for two now (grin).  Besides
> Woody Guthrie never wrote a song about a bus.  Well OK he might have, but I
> never heard it.
>
> "Forget about world Peace, visualize using your turn signal",
>
> Rick DeMent

Howdy,

Well, as it turns out I am going to be riding a train to begin my adventure.  Amtrak has a nice connection all the way to Harpers Ferry from Boston, provided you can get from Portland to Boston for departure at 6:40 AM!  So I will be thinking of you and Woody as I roll along, clickety-clack.  Although I don't know any Guthrie songs about buses either, he did write, "Take me for a ride in your car-car", and that's what I might be asking of you when I get close to Atlanta.

... The chance to clean-up, possibly resupply, and disgust you and the missus with my table manners would be great.

Time for these bootheels to be wanderin',