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A collage of images from the bus trip...
... passing a farm somewhere in North Carolina, and they had an apiary on their property, and rows of white-boxed beehives... the scent of the rendering plant near the bus station in Gainesville - at least it looked like such a plant, and sure smelled like something... dying for orange juice, it's kind of my spinach when I'm feeling physically wasted; but, I only had a $5 bill left, none of the change machines at any bus station would work, and no one had any ones - til finally one blonde guy in Richmond had 4 singles, which I gladly traded and lost in the deal just to have some cold juice... I never imagined the Washington Monument was THAT high, it was really amazing to see at night... Waffle House, Waffle House, Waffle House, Waffle House... I saw three stores in three different states that all claimed to be the biggest fireworks dealers in the country... standing outside to get some air in Raleigh, but the driver didn't want me hanging around the bus area, tho I wanted to walk off the pain in my hip - so he had the ticket desk page me so I would go inside - a pox on his arse... drifting in and out of sleep halfway through the trip, I kept having mini-dreams or something, I would imagine conversations, and always hearing my damn cell phone chime there was a message, when there was none... realizing I was heading to Georgia, and I better crank some R.E.M. on my iPod (hint: they're from Athens, GA)... on the final bus to Gainesville, the woman sitting in front of me, noticing things in her hair that I first took for dandruff - until I realized they were moving... then seeing that sky clear as I stood outside the Gainesville station waiting for Janis and her kids, and seeing the Moon overhead, faintly pink in the hazy air that smelled like early spring and wet earth... and closing my eyes, but still feeling like I was moving...
