Eagle Nest, New Mexico, 2012. “People like to drive because driving is actually and symbolically an almost perfect mechanism for escape…there is probably no human being who does not have troubles, real or imagined, from which he at times feels the need to flee.” George R. Stewart.
PHB
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- Brooklin, Maine, United States
- We own a 1976 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine, and an '86 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of '97 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age of the fleet is 24 years--we're recyclers. I've published a book of stories NIGHT DRIVING (1987), and 2 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), and THE O'BRIENS, which came out in the US (Pantheon) and Canada (House of Anansi) in 2012. A book of stories TRAVELING LIGHT comes out in 2013. More of my book stuff at www.peterbehrens.org I'm a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Delphinium
I've been driving past this truck all spring, whenever I take H to preschool. It's a Ford F-600 and my guess would 1977. A good solid Maine farm truck. Salt tends to eat trucks around here but Delphinium looks clean and solid. Living on the end of a Maine peninsula means most of the driving is on back roads. There's been a flock of turkeys up on the Hales Hill Road all spring; H wonders if they are the same birds we used to ride our bikes past on our way to school in Texas last winter.
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