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Page 2. Travel pictures chronologically
Waiting in repair place late into the
night after our first out of 5 car breakdowns.
Following the beautiful old Mohawk Trail over the mountains
into New York - a happy photo 3 hours before next break down.
Our first hitchhiker who unlike most of my hitchhikers
was not able to fix the car when it broke down right after.
After our 4th car breakdown in 4 days our mood is -
like Rikke shows it here, waiting a whole day in
a service station in the middle of nowhere - worried!
With our second hitchhiker
With old friend in Louisiana
Friend in Louisiana
In original slave cabin in Louisiana
Being black herself Rikke was deeply moved by
being in a slave cabin for the first time
In between all our ghetto visits we only had time for a one
hour dinner
stop in New Orleans even though Rikke had never been to this wonderful
city before where as a vagabond I had
sold blood plasma more frequently than in any other city
Dressing up in my car
In the African Museum in Selma. Rikke is part Masai
The famous Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma where Martin Luther King
and the Civil Rights marchers were once stopped by the mayor whom I
accidentally made friends with on my last trip through Selma.
On plantation in South Carolina
Picking cotton on plantation
Cotton outside slave cabin
Slave cabins on Boone Hall plantation
In slave cabin
On Southern plantation
Picking strawberries on field where slaves had worked
With the Flag
With Kasele - my friend in DC
Outside the White House
...or reconciliation after our only big fight
After 7.000 miles I dropped Rikke off with friends
in Harlem
and flew home.
Copyright © 2003 Jacob
Holdt
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