Driving South to Richmond from Johns Hopkins ...

... Outside: 101 degrees!!! ... Measured! - on the hood of the rental ... Abandoned 95 South at Exit 161 for US1 (billed as a Historic Drive on road signs ... Strip malls and housing developments as far as the eye can see ... Rivals the drive to Teterboro from Manhattan, sans condos built on battle fields) ... Heavy rush hour traffic, so inched by street signs with names like "Confederate Court" this, and "Confederate Circle" that ... ha, ha ... We stayed focused, though, looking for an ice cream parlor, or a Dairy Queen on the right side of the rod (we redrew the Mason-Dixon Line ... new coordinates: North-South ... No U-turns, or left turns) ... By the time we finally found gratification we were "Vis a Vis Exit 148" ...

Summer travels are ephemeral. So many summers, so little time, ...

... but for copious encounters with folk who tell a story of hope: "Young Couple in Front of Their First Home, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., DC, July 17, 2011" ... a bit of Grant Wood, Gothic not ...

Muammar Muresanu Muhammad Marius al-Gaddafi ...

... would like an exit strategy ... Tucson, Arizona would provide anonymity ... A tenured professorship at U of A ... "Political Coercion 101" (fall semester) ... "Political Conversion 102" (spring semester) ... Relocation from desert to desert, basically ... "Guest Starring" on In Plain Site could also work, as well as relocating to Albuquerque ... There's a university there, too ...

P.S. Muammar Muresanu Muhammad Marius al-Gaddafi would like to thank Mr. Dracole Sr. for telling Mr. Dracole Jr. to tell Mr. Muresanu Sr. to start blogging again ...