On Being an Illegible Person
I’ve been drifting slowly through California for the past three weeks at about 100 miles/week, and several times I’ve been asked an apparently simple question that has become nearly im…
I've been drifting slowly through California for the past three weeks at about 100 miles/week, and several times I've been asked an apparently simple question that has become nearly impossible for me to answer: "What are you here for?" Unlike regular travelers, I am not here for anything. I am just here, like area residents. The only difference is that I'll drift on out of the Bay Area in a week. The true answer is "I am nomadic for the time being. I just move through places, the way you stay put in places. I am doing things that constant movement enables, just like you do things that staying
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