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  • Good morning, Hank, it's Wednesday. I woke up in the Yeti's childhood bedroom around

  • seven, brushed my teeth while contemplating how disconcertingly often I videotape myself

  • brushing my teeth, and went downstairs to find Henry helpfully removing trash from a

  • trash can. Willy was like, "I wanna try!"

  • We had to drive from Birmingham back to Indianapolis that day, so first I put this stuff in this

  • bag, then I changed clothes - suspiciously similar pants are suspiciously similar -

  • and then I started packing the car.

  • Hank, there was a time when, in a pinch, I could fit my whole life into a small Sedan.

  • Now I have to strap a car-top carrier onto my station wagon if I want to go on a five

  • day trip.

  • Remembering the unbearable lightness of my younger and more vulnerable years made me

  • think about all the road trips I'd gone on in the past. I'd driven to the Grand Canyon,

  • and Alaska, and San Francisco, and Arthur, Nebraska, home of the world's smallest courthouse.

  • In those days, I'd get distracted by all kinds of roadside attractions, but this trip was

  • all about speed. I ate leftover barbecue for breakfast - we didn't stop until lunch.

  • Willy says, "I claim this snow for Fireball Wilson Roberts!" Henry says, "Tables are for

  • climbing!"

  • I'd been feeling nostalgic, but then I thought about how on those old road trips I couldn't

  • order Happy Meals or play in the play place, which I can finally do again after more than

  • two decades. Back in the car, Willy slept, and I read Sarah an excerpt from a Germany

  • review of one of my books, as translated by Google.

  • (John: The bone-mo density is high in these bisections, easily gestessing gapit - )

  • As we kept driving north, I thought about how all my old road trips had taken me west,

  • partly because that's where the open space is in America and partly because of this amazing

  • line from a book I loved, called "All The King's Men."

  • "For west is where we all plan to go someday," Robert Penn Warren wrote. "It is where you

  • go when the land gives out and the old field pines encroach. It is where you go when you

  • get the letter saying 'flee, all is discovered.' It is where you go when you look down at the

  • blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you

  • are a bubble on the tide of empire."

  • A bubble on the tide of empire, Hank, french the llama, what I wouldn't give to write sentences

  • like that! Anyway - then we had to stop for gas and we decided to let Henry drive for

  • a while. It must be said that despite Henry's abundant charms, he is not terribly attentive

  • behind the wheel.

  • We kept driving. I was still thinking about the old road trips and this new one, about

  • becoming a capital "A" adult with capital "R" responsibilities. I remember when we got

  • to the world's small courthouse in Arthur, Nebraska, all those years ago after twelve

  • hours of driving, I was struck by the fact that it was not, like, actually /that/ small.

  • I mean, frankly, if I were so inclined I could easily build a much smaller courthouse in

  • my basement. As we got back in the car to drive to Carhenge, an exact replica of Stonehenge

  • made out of junked cars, I complained to a fellow traveler, who reminded me that it was

  • not the destination that mattered, but the journey.

  • Which is true, in its way, but destinations aren't all bad, Hank. And as we kept driving

  • north, the whole family in the car together, it got darker, and snowier, until finally

  • the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: home.

  • Hank, I'll see ya on Friday!

Good morning, Hank, it's Wednesday. I woke up in the Yeti's childhood bedroom around

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寶寶在路上。來自不同地方的想法 (Baby on the Road: Thoughts from Places)

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