EPI-EGG-OLOGUE----EGG On The Run Sits For A Spell

Thirty days of Running (3,930 miles) & we're taking a break back at the crib.
From Charlotte through Kentucky, Ohio, & to Michigan. Then down through Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi & west to Dallas, then back through Mississippi, the northern part of Georgia & South Carolina, then home.
We met scores of people on all sorts of journeys, from all sorts of socio-economic groups and ages, and each and every one of them was exceedingly pleasant. Not one surly person in the lot. This may be the single most memorable aspect of the trek. It renewed my faith humanity; in America. There was the black fellow sleeping on a picnic table under a blue tarp--his skinny dog nearby; the elderly couple--both crippled, in the 40 ft. RV, towing a new full-size Jeep Cherokee, who "were doing things for others." This consisted of traveling around America, building Christian book stores.
There were the two homeless women living in tents (3 mos. so far), with a half-dozen cats & a yapping mutt. There was the couple from Colorado (up 8k ft.) who had been out for 4 mos. rambling around. "Guess with winter setting in we won't be able to get back up the mountains, home. Maybe we'll find a good spot in southern New Mexico." They had this huge, handsome, standard poodle/golden retriever mix & they'd ripped out half of their trailer's furnishings to make room for sofa for Ralph, the dog.
There was Cut-And-Shoot, Tex., an incorporated little town; Dogtown, Alabama; The White Elephant Hotel--an ornate, gorgeous, Victorian structure, perched on top of Alabama's highest ridge +-2,800 ft. After exiting DeSota State Pk. at dawn & 25 degrees, we rounded a switchback and there, rising out of the frosty morning mist was The White Elephant. Who built this wonderful hotel? What a sense of humor! It's like the Greenbriar in West Virginia, but extremely isolated in the Alabama woods.
Enough.......enough. Tks for reading this chatter. Rambling around America & living in a trailer is like land sailing. It wears you out. Exhilaration keeps you buzzing along and "up", while at the same time, you're stretched thin, physically & emotionally, as well. Like sailing, after a couple of wks you get in a "groove" & though still stretched thin, you feel like you could go forever, or at least a good long time. The upshot of all this is that when you return home you feel disoriented, & a part of you yearns to still be rambling.
EGG On The Run will continue....
Cheers,
Dick Randall & Ann Frankln