Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Portland

We land in Portland after a considerably more relaxing flight without children aboard. Upon arriving at the car rental office, we notice that the sky is cloudly and it is drizzling. In front of us in line are a middle-aged hippie couple in town for a conference on Bahaism or the unity of world religions, or something of the sort. I have not seen a hippie in years; they have been hunted to the edge of extinction on the east coast. A few small pockets survive in Maine, remnants of a lost world. Hippies and drizzle will be reoccurring motifs in Portland.

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