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stopdiggin

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2. very, very little of anything resembling 'romance' involved on the 'open road'

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Sun Jun 14, 2026, 04:33 PM

Sunday

Kind of like romanticizing 'cowboy' life

miserable, harsh, brutally hard, mind numbingly and soul crushingly lonely - and dirt poor without any prospect of future.
But, by all means, let's make it into something 'symbolic' and romantic.

"Oh, bury me not .. on the lone prarieeeeee .. "

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Burma Shave [View all] NNadir Sunday OP

I remember those signs... 2naSalit Sunday #1

very, very little of anything resembling 'romance' involved on the 'open road' stopdiggin Sunday #2

It depends on how you go about it. As a living, I guess I hear you. As a bourgeois kid traveling with girlfriends... NNadir Sunday #4

I remember them. God, I'm old! surfered Sunday #3

I remember them as a boy, while traveling with my parents by car. Squaredeal Sunday #5

This message was self-deleted by its author AllaN01Bear Sunday #6

howdi AllaN01Bear Sunday #7

Old enough to remember those... Wounded Bear Monday #8

By the time I was 10, 1957, mountain grammy Monday #9