then there is the (also abandoned prematurely) record of a cross-country roadtrip late spring 2002. curious, as the roadtrip happened before I moved to nyc. curious also as I assume I was keeping an actual journal then. these notes almost seem purposefully sketchy, as if I intended to do something else with them, as if they were truly only meant as notes to come back to when I had more time to write. which is to say, they were perhaps meant to trigger memories of details since forgotten.
2 june 02
we drove off early in the morning — weather warm yet dry & only decoratively cloudy. I am snapping pictures from the moving car. so many vistas, so many dead animals. driving standard is interesting. the gears between second and fifth are pretty inconsequential. the country might have just widened.
we drive into columbus while the sun is still up.
(undated, but likely the following day)
it was kind of too cold to swim in the creek, but we went anyway.
woke up to cloudy skies & thunder rumbles and a chaotic house shuddering around tya’s pink room. pink actually isn’t the right word for it.
from quilt critiques with nicole & jeremy in indianapolis — dense with heat, to a headache & sleep in the car towards illinois. I missed flat farm lands and clouds. celia calls just as we are headed into gary, indiana (home of industrial awe), & we are warned about rainy weather ahead. we are heading into chicago as the storm is moving out, right over us. the clouds clear, the sun lowers & turns orange, and a double rainbow darkens in the sky.
