escape

guinness and i checked out smithgall woods state park in white county yesterday -- 5+ mile, part of it through a weird landscape, the product of 19th-century gold mining --- wonderfully quiet and more or less to ourselves ---

i wish i could have been blogging what's happened just in the last two weeks, but it's just all too much --- trumpistan is all the horrible that i thought it would be, and then some --- the blatant corruption almost pales against the religious and racial antagonism that he is encouraging  and the overall ignorance, on so many levels, that he represents --- i hope we are not sliding into a dreadfully illiberal, if not outright fascist regime that will be the ruination of our republic ---- they say history repeats, or at least rhymes, and those of us who know a little bit of history are doomed to sit around and watch it happen --- i just wish i could really understand it --- observation is not understanding --- sometimes i think all i can do is take the dog for a long walk in the woods

a concrete ford on dukes creek

we're about the same in dog years --- but he can trudge along at a pace i can't keep sometimes

loudsville campground, not far from smithgall, is a purty great place, dating to the 1830s, although all of the buildings are  20th century i think