Road trips: hard on news-reading and vegetarians—from a Seattle newsstand Saddam’s beard staring back at oblivious me—o gee golly that overwhelming sense of security! And the road signs of small town N. CA: Get US out of UN! In Arcata, JOHNNY CASH spray painted white and huge on roadside cement wall. At the border, no fruit to declare. Not even oranges. Tree as skyscraper. Shoulders: “low” vs. “soft”. In the “preserved” spaces of CA OR WA, a strange nostalgia for institutions. Thus later consumed Gary and Nada’s Swoon, Adam Green’s Garfield and James Brown Live at the Apollo. Learned to spell itinerary, hostel. Shot some of it all w. cameras. Soon to follow.