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15/06/08 12:03
This is
it. Our time in the US is up. We have turned the last
page of our roadside diaries. At least for now.
In the past three months we have traveled several thousands miles, visited more than twenty states, and met enough people to colonize a small country. Everywhere we went, we were taken in by people willing to share their couches and their stories. An exchange that did not always lead to agreement, but never fell short of understanding. We came as strangers, and parted as friends, no matter our differences. It might sound like a candyfloss romance told by an imbecile trying to please, but it is the truth nonetheless. Mutually rewarding contact between different worlds is very much possible.
We want to extend a heartfelt thank to all of our hosts throughout the US - not only those who opened up their homes to us, but also those who just sat down for a cup of coffee, or gave us directions when we lost our way. Without you, this project status would have been an altogether different and more disheartening story.
We also want to thank all of our readers who have faithfully ticked in by the hundreds every day. A lot of people have sent us private emails and messages, commenting on our writings with suggestions and corrections. Having a participating audience has been a great inspiration to us, and has helped to keep us going on several occasions when we were out of gas or sleep or luck - or even all three.
Last but not least, we are thrilled that Anne-Mette decided to join our project, and bring our literary portraits to painted life on her canvas. Her ingenious brush added many new layers of color to our own black-on-white words, and though we never knew what we were getting, we always knew that we would not want to be without it.
We hope to be able to pick up our roadside diaries and add more pages to them in the not too distant future - whether from the US, the EU, or somewhere else entirely. But for now, we just need to kick back, grab a cold beer, and get the hell out of here before our visas expire at midnight tomorrow.
Keep on moving,
Kristian & Jacob
In the past three months we have traveled several thousands miles, visited more than twenty states, and met enough people to colonize a small country. Everywhere we went, we were taken in by people willing to share their couches and their stories. An exchange that did not always lead to agreement, but never fell short of understanding. We came as strangers, and parted as friends, no matter our differences. It might sound like a candyfloss romance told by an imbecile trying to please, but it is the truth nonetheless. Mutually rewarding contact between different worlds is very much possible.
We want to extend a heartfelt thank to all of our hosts throughout the US - not only those who opened up their homes to us, but also those who just sat down for a cup of coffee, or gave us directions when we lost our way. Without you, this project status would have been an altogether different and more disheartening story.
We also want to thank all of our readers who have faithfully ticked in by the hundreds every day. A lot of people have sent us private emails and messages, commenting on our writings with suggestions and corrections. Having a participating audience has been a great inspiration to us, and has helped to keep us going on several occasions when we were out of gas or sleep or luck - or even all three.
Last but not least, we are thrilled that Anne-Mette decided to join our project, and bring our literary portraits to painted life on her canvas. Her ingenious brush added many new layers of color to our own black-on-white words, and though we never knew what we were getting, we always knew that we would not want to be without it.
We hope to be able to pick up our roadside diaries and add more pages to them in the not too distant future - whether from the US, the EU, or somewhere else entirely. But for now, we just need to kick back, grab a cold beer, and get the hell out of here before our visas expire at midnight tomorrow.
Keep on moving,
Kristian & Jacob
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