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Short on cash and long on time; On the road with Cactus Ed
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High Country News
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February 17, 2003
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One day early in the 1970s, Ed Abbey and I were cruising along a southern Utah highway in a forest-green Chevy that had rolled off the assembly line some 20 years before. Ed had given a friend $100 for it in the spring and we were both pleased that it was still running now, early in autumn. We got pretty good gas mileage, considering, but we did have to pull over every half hour to put a quart of oil into the engine.
This was not a problem. We were rarely in a hurry, and it was a beautiful day. I remarked how the quaking aspen were turning their lush and bedazzling gold, and observed with wonder the flocks of geese rising into the sky in their mysterious, noisy chevrons, and noted how, ...
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