At 10:32 AM 8/6/2011, Mixon Bill wrote:
My favorite
summing up was written by Squire Lewis on encountering Bicking in
Mexico after the 1966 convention: "Lew's only traveling and survival
equipment consists of a small Kelty pack whose sole contents are the
largest Spanish dictionary every printed--about a 20-pounder--and a
box of Mexican crackers. . . . His only clothes are those he wears,
and he obviously has some warped goal of not taking them off--ever--
for washing or any other purpose. . . . He has gotten all the long way
from Baltimore to California to [Mexico City] with nothing but his
great dictionary and his crackers. We have never seen him spend any
money--not any--he may well not have any.
That reminds me of a statement attributed, I believe, to a
governor of Florida. In reference to hikers or whomever coming to
visit being good for the economy, he said something like, "They come
with only one pair of underwear and a five-dollar bill and don't
change either."
Mark Minton
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