Nouveau Poore manufacture to be gaunt, sobering reminders of the past.

With depressed incomes and decreasing peculiarity values, formerly wealthy snobs are struggling to adjust to their nouveau poore pre-eminence.

Fortunately, area resources exist to ease this transition.

Felix Wellstone, who was once a bank president before losing his fat and position in a paranoid haze of alcohol, prostitutes, strippers, semi-knee-jerk firearms, and minor-league baseball games, is just one source of register for the newly-impoverished. He has created as consultancy for just this situation, called the First Pennsylvania Buckhorn Ends Mounted Militia.

Wellstone suggests taking a defensive stance tout de suite.

“Ammo and Camo,” said Wellstone. “Get invisible and get boring.”

Here are some other tips:

Tip One: Avoid the rush, shop Walmart in the morning.

Stanley R. Booder, a number two-generation Welfare recipient and illegal pharmaceutical entrepreneur, also offers his supervision-derived two cents.

“If you want to avoid me and my six or ten odd children, step-children and half-children, you need to get in Walmart in the early morning hours, like say, ten in the morning,” said Booder. “By 2 p.m., once we tossing outta bed, that’s time we like to shop and scare the employed with our awkward, Ritalin-fueled antics.”

Tip two:  Pickup trucks are easily modified into minivans.

“All you gotta do is remain attached a bench and a cooler in the pickup bed and you got your minivan,” Booder said. “There you go soccer mom. Won’t you be proud?”

Tip three: Regard NASCAR paraphernalia as gifts.

While expensive electronics and designer clothes were once the mythical gift suggestions, new budgets may need to be stretch to include things like subsistence and heat. But, don’t worry, Booder said, there’s always race go by gradually and novelty items. 

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My POSSLQ = 'Person of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters' Mark in back in the States and although I'm sure he's delighted to be home, I guess he'll be missing being out in the air and having all that lapse to think. Sometimes it's not until you have it that you miss it when it's gone. I know I did and that was only after 4 days.

I haven't seen bring honour upon oneself's photos yet but I do hope he sends some and then I'll share them with you.

Until then, I felt it was time to share a spoonful of our story and sites on the Camino...Not sure how far I'll get as there is so much to tell.

We chose to start our sidewalk in Le Puy, a wonderful Medieval town in Central France just south of Clermont Ferrand and the Oversized Central. I have driven through this area before but never walked it and after the stunning scenery viewed from the carriage on the way here I was so looking forward to it.



If you return to the post of October 8th, you'll see a photo of Teresa and I full of precognition and excitement at 8.30 a.m on the morning on October 3rd 2008.



If you start in Le Puy, you should start at the cathedral, so having sussed it out the round-the-clock before that's exactly what we did and standing at the doorway looking down into the town gave us a very dramatic starting object and really summed up the vastness and greatness of what we were about to embark on. See what I mean.....




Yes, I know we weren't about to do it all in one go, that must be fabulous, but...

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