Standin on a corner...

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Saturday, September 29, 2007

I spent 24 stressful hours in Winslow. I had just finished a marathon 36-hour bus journey from Clarksdale via Memphis, Dallas, Amarillo and Albuquerque. I had watched the cheesiest Texan parade for the opening of the State Fair in Dallas, a shitty town if ever I saw one. I'd been sat next to a Mexican guy who had ALL his belongings stacked on his lap and mine. I had a cold coming on from the Greyhound driver going crazy with the air-conditioning. I was in a bad fucking mood.

So when I got off the bus and found that my bag wasn't on it.....

This was when I decided that, cultural experience or not, I wasn't going to bother with Greyhound any longer. It's Amtrak from now on.

I was met at the station by my aunt and uncle, Margaret and Tim Ellis. Margaret is working as a nurse for Indian Healthcare on the Navajo Reservation. They'd come down to Winslow to celebrate Tim's 70th birthday with a meal at La Posada, a top restaurant in this desert town.

There was a festival - actually there were three festivals - going on in Winslow that day. There was a classic car rally, an Indian cultural show, with Navajo rappers and Hopi dancers, and finally the "Standin-On-The-Corner Festival" named for the 1972 song 'Take It Easy' by the Eagles, which made the town famous. Even with three festivals going on at once, it was a pretty sleepy place.

I didn't really have much of a chance to enjoy Winslow. I was too busy fretting about my missing bag. I went to a charity shop to buy a change of clothes and was wondering how I was going to continue this trip without any belongings. We slept in a campsite outside town, in a beautiful spectacular desert setting, but I had problems sleeping, worrying about the bag.

After 24 hours of angry phone calls, my bag finally turned up in Flagstaff, AZ.
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rollthetroll
rollthetroll on Oct 8, 2007 at 09:39PM

Maybe you can clear this up for me
If we're urged to say 'Native American', why are people still saying 'Indian Reservation'? Is it like black people and the 'N' word?

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