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.

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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, June 2, 2012

Clean Maine 1987 Chevrolet K-10

I've been seeing this truck this spring whenever I've been in the Munjoy Hill neighborhood in Portland Maine. When I'm in town I sometimes have lunch at The Front Room up on the Hill. The truck is a 1987 4WD Chevrolet with an eight-foot bed. The grill makes it look like a Texas truck; so does the gun rack, the lack of rust and, perhaps, the Luckenback Sticker in the window, though that might signify a wannabe. 

Clean, nice-looking truck. Don't see many of 'em in salty old Maine.


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