Headed Out Before 6!

May 31, 2010 5:30 am

"Top kill" failed. The next attempt will take days, even weeks, to accomplish and may also fail. Or, if all goes really wrong, could even make the gush worse. With this appalling news, I am ready to roll.

I've pulled the back seats from my little Toyota RAV (Stella) and created a nest, a space I'll live in until I reach the New Orleans area. Then, I indulge in a hotel - the 3rd cheapest one I could find, in a quiet residential area.

One side of the back of the RAV is set up as a bed, foam from a cot topped with cushions from an outdoor chair. The rest of the car holds my cooler, a box of food and cooking implements, cameras, suitcase, white sage, and a bag of goodies - books, Sudoku, special snacks. Laptop. Press pass. A bottle of Jamison's.

There's new screening over all operable windows. Gnats and mosquitoes be damned! I'll stop either in Ft. Stockton or Sonora, both with campgrounds. Ft. Stockton isn't quite as far as I'd like to go, costs more, and has wireless. Sonora is farther, has no wireless. But Sonora, Sonora. May have to go there. I'll be missing the Mexican border by evening.

Joined the Facebook group "I vote we plug the Gulf oil leak with BP executives." Seemed like the appropriate thing to do as I head out to visit that once beautiful area. I'm glad I've had the opportunity to see it before it was destroyed.

I think that now I am just wasting time, postponing leaving. A part of me wants so badly to be there, and the other part is so fearful of what I will have to witness, and that part postpones.

Bye, y'all, and I"ll update you next time I find some wireless.