Hi Friends and Family - I am "camped" at the Flying J Truck Stop in Casper Wyoming on my way back to Colorado to work on Get Out the Vote in a truly critical state, see today's CNN post here http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/20/mccain-camp-looking-for-way-to-win-without-colorado/#more-25677
I left Oly yesterday in Pearl the Camper, heading East through beautiful Washington, kinda weird Idado, into Montana, "camping" last night at Muralts Truck Stop just west of Missoula. I learned this trick of free "camping"-with-Internet from Anne Stevens, who has a long history of traveling between Vermont and Colorado and knows how to do it on a dime. Thank you Annie! If you try it, enjoy the truckers, who are all really nice. Earplugs help.
I left Oly at the crack Sunday before I could see Joe Biden in Tacoma on Sunday (19th), because I felt I should just GET GOING. Turns out ole Joe The Senator is speaking tomorrow in Greeley Colorado, virtually on the way to my final destination, Ft. Collins. So I am going to see Joe after all...should be a high octane event!
The Obama Campaign was its usual incredible efficient self in welcoming me and facilitating my travel to work for Barack. Who among us has ever volunteered for the D's and not been taken up instead with worthy efforts to help the hangers-on and then the incredible wait while the volunteer coordinator got distracted by one question after another till they finally remembered that you were waiting patiently for a job? This Obama crowd is nothing if not smart and "customer-oriented." Watching the polls, I first thought maybe I should go to Nevada, which seemed a little closer. But the Out-of-State-Volunteer Coordinator for Nevada steered me to Colorado, as Nevada's border state is California, and Reno and LV and the rest of NV are swamped with volunteers. And the Colorado Out-of-State Coordinator was completely excited to have my help.
This is incredible, people. I realize a lot of mocking has been going on of the self-referential "we are the change we have been waiting for," but if you are an unreconstructed '60's anti-war activist like me, you might hear in your head the strains of an old folk song whose name I can't remember, but goes "HOW LONG, HOW LONG will it be til your returning, how long, how long must I keep the fires burning?" (Maybe someone can help me with the name of the song and the artist). It's been 40 years, gang, since peace-and-love time --when there was a lot of anger in the streets as well -- 40 years since people really rose up to claim the power of concern for others and for our planet. I am so fortunate to be able to be part of it.
Well, the trucks are moving in all around for the night. Wyoming Public Radio has Mozart going, and I better do the dishes.....if you have any time to spare over the next two weeks, spend it, if you can, on the future of our country and our state. For me, I have gotten so much more out of it than I have given. Love you guys! Nak
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