It is possible to get good coffee outside of the city.
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
I drove out into America yesterday. I live inside the Washington, DC beltway and hadn’t been out in about 8 weeks, since I went to Fallingwater. I’d like to report that America is just fine, despite what we hear on television about the goings on at the Capitol. This is one of the main streets in Staunton, Virginia - “the Queen City of the Shenandoah Valley,” it escaped the damage of the Civil War and there are still 18th and 19th century buildings in town.
Small towns have interesting people who talk about things that you’d forgotten about and help you forget your current crisis as they present ones of their own. It seems like these people would get lost in a large city and would no longer have a voice.
Notes from Staunton residents, I have no idea if any of this is true.
“1. Photographic film will no longer be made in the United States by as early as next year.
2. If you take the limiter off a 74** series BMW you can get it to 165 mph.
3. Fall color will be weak this year because there hasn’t been much rain.
4. There is no difference in the corruption of Legislative, Executive and Judicial branches of government.”
The Shenandoah Valley was brown and warm, I think global warming has come there first. I remember it as being green and fertile. This is the only photograph I made as I was walking to the coffee shop with the green awning. I’d like to report that the coffee is hot and delicious in Staunton.