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Down the block, what appeared as a covered wagon straight out of a phony B Western rolled through an intersection of my neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except for this covered wagon was being pulled by a man wearing a harness of some kind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was driving and halted at a STOP sign. Gray clouds dominated the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yes, a mini covered wagon. I’d seen them before around town. One of the neighborhood homeless men lived in one constructed upon a tiny trailer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The coast was clear and I began to to take my foot off the brake when I looked up and saw another covered wagon behind the first one. It was being pushed by a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another covered wagon followed closely behind. Then another. The last one had a mutt riding on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I stared at a homeless wagon train and they rolled down the street, not the sidewalk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did they have a Ward Bond-type as leader? Did they eat beans and drink coffee around a campfire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve written elsewhere about this reverse modern Oregon Trail\u2014a wagon train heading not to the mythic Promised Land and starting over with a homestead. But journeying an urban trail of survival and dissipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do they circle the wagons at night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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