Exvagabond, 77

Hillbilly in exile Retired when the Economy sank. Career had been propaganda, graphics, construction labor and vagabonding. Mainly, wanted to see the country from the backroads and get paid for it--and not stare out of an office window, wishing. Most-fun gig was sign-painting in the Kentucky mountains.

Wouldn't mind going back, but now I'm easy bike distance to food, a couple universities and a good public library. I read all the time, forever trying to patch-over my gaping ignorance. Mostly history, natural history, art, simple tech, hard si-fi.

Never was a consumer or Rat-Race contestant. May have read too much MAD magazine in the Sicksties. Detest most advertising, and thank god for Public Radio.

Would like to do a paleo dig someday; find another lost Gospel or maybe Felis silvestris Northamericanus.