Entry 23: Seattle, Washington: Destination Realized Monday, August 9th - Wednesday, August 18th Scott S.’s Apartment After almost 3 weeks of driving 3000 miles from Chicago, visiting 3 National Parks, a canoe/camping trip in the Boundary Waters, partying in Iowa City with a “T.J.” (pseudonym) Chicago friend, tent-camping in numerous National Forests, and hiking the Pacific Coast Trail, I had finally, at 9:00 p.m., arrived at the excuse for the trip: A reunion with a college friend who I met in 1984, Scott S. He’s lived in Seattle for 22 years now, and it’s been 8 years since I saw him for an hour in Atlanta (both our folks had lived there). We met in the Athens’ University of Georgia dining hall, where I was no doubt enjoying the first few weeks’ of independent feelings an
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