7/4/13: Thursday, July 4, Independence Day: Home At Last? 9 PM, July 4, 2013: 7872.1 miles, and Maybelline and I are back in the carport at 148 Sherri Lane, Oceanside, CA. Soon, I hope to be in bed.
Gettysburg Reflections: (Skip this paragraph if you're not interested in the Battle of Gettysburg.) 150 years ago today, the great Battle of Gettysburg is over, each side limping away, leaving the dead behind and carrying their wounded. A true story I heard on one of the Gettysburg tours says that today or thereabouts 150 years ago, a family in a neighboring village, wishing to see the site of the great Union victory, packs a picnic and heads over there. The site is far from glorious: the family are appalled. The stench is overwhelming, not just of dead and perhaps still dying soldiers and of their amputated limbs, but of heaps of dead horses and mules, putrefying in the July heat. These mounds of animal flesh must be set afire; there is nothing else that can be done with them.
Said goodbye to the Velazquezes and to Bob and then headed for Oceanside.
It was a fabulous, scary, wonderful, bewildering, overwhelming experience that I have yet to fully digest. My great thanks to you who helped and who entertained me along the way.
Maybelline's CHECK ENGINE light is on. So is mine!
All cats present and well, thanks to Renai Landes and her team. Mister is turning brown; must figure out why.
Missed you all! Nice to be home!
Can't wait to hear what YOU'VE been up to!
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