Day 12
Monday
23 August 99
Columbus, Ohio - Washington, Pennsylvania

We were excited to leave Columbus, which neither of us liked.   We made a beeline for the border, but ended up stopping in many antique stores.   I was on a mission to find a prom dress, but the pickins were slim.   I did find a 1952 wedding dress with the veil, which was absolutely fabulous, but was too small on me.   Must have been for a child bride.   I also found an actual prom dress, which did fit me, but it was an atrociously dirty lavendar jobbie that was too ugly even for me.   I got really burned out on junkin' by the end, and the last place we visited was a place that was filled to the brim with Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy paraphanalia, which is not my thing, but would have been a western fan's heaven (behind the post office on Wheeling Ave. in Cambridge, Ohio).

My mother purchased a dozen radio plays produced by LA Theatre Works for our trip.   We have been enjoying some, and making great fun of others.

We have stopped for the evening in Washington, Pennsylvania, at a Ramada Inn which is well off the main road.   My mother was outside reading when deer walked by.   We both appreciate the little places much more than the big cities.

At dinner my mum and I discussed all sorts of good stuff.   We talked about our men, and also about our dog, who has been in the kennel the whole time.   Our beagle, named Blu, is a great dog.   My mum said she wonders what he thinks and dreams about.   She said to him there is no Ramada Inn, no United States, no brand names.   He lives in a different reality than we do.   She said we could extrapolate this to us; we could be living without knowing about some broader external reality.   Of course, religious people feel that they have tapped in to that bigger picture.

 
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