When I wrote my defense of commonmass, which should have been more of a defense of commonmass than it was and which should not have touched on anything else, yesterday, it was the fruit of a review of a diary in which I was going to talk about my two other trips. This is the way that diary began.
I understand that I should not have published yesterday with any call-out information in it. I should not have changed the title either. I didn't delete the diary because I thought the comment thread was amazingly instructive. I did not do that to be manipulative, I was operating on a suggestion from another Kossack. I should not have updated it in the morning either. That's the apology. The rest is an essay on travel and friendship.
29 days. Roughly 12,700 miles (not counting a day trip to Pittsburgh). 18 Kossacks (not counting Netroots Nation 14). All friends, a few new friends and several people who became better friends. I diaried the first trip in two installments: Puerto Rico and the Northeast. I didn't take many pictures on my second trip and I didn't even bring my actual camera (yes, I have some pics on my phone, which is not talking to my computer very well these days) on the third trip, to Sonoma County and San Francisco. Thus, this will be more thematic and probably not that well illustrated.
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