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yonder

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11. About 3 weeks ago, my friend made the 60 mile trip from his dry state home to a legal state.
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 05:36 PM
Mar 2020

On his way there he counted about a dozen dry state troopers in the opposite lane of the interstate, about half of those who had pulled over vehicles for whatever reason. Maybe half of those stopped were in the obvious process of being searched. That was far more than my friend was used to seeing and all those sightings were within about 10 miles of the state line. Somewhat panicked, my friend thought about turning around but decided to press on. He secured the reason for his visit and decided to travel home via several different state and county roads with which he was familiar with. The return trip took him 2 to 3 times the amount of time than it took to get there but he ran that gauntlet and made it home without incident. My friend thinks the next time, he might pack his vehicle with fishing or camping gear to use as a reason for the journey.

Despite the corona virus thing shaking up the world, my friend is now somewhat calmer -- for the time being anyway.

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