Montana State University Bozeman - Montanan Yearbook (Bozeman, MT)

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Sandi Why did you leave for Portland with the Volks packed full of our things to live with some guy you didn’t know when you left? Driving the North Coast Highway small towns, cheap gas, double cheese burgers, a flat tire near Redding; A couple of weeks in Portland with a girlfriend you really didn’t like. Four weeks you were in Salem, a guy I’ll never talk to to learn about that side of you. So you packed up, heading south and home leaving one of my Baez records in a strange record rack. The next thing I heard was a picture post card from Ashland. I’m here. There’s room and the Volks needs work.” Love, Sandi.” Sandi is here and Jon is there and the world is full of places where everyone is but I’m not. I wonder why I’m never in the right place at the right time and why I’m always just someplace. Maybe I should just sit down on some soft rock and try to draw a map for myself. But how do you draw a map when you haven’t seen the area? Hey, man, where ya headed?” I don’t know, just so it’s some place down the road ...” 15