Every time I tell this story, the first question that comes to mind is “What the hell were they thinking?”, followed rapidly by “Were they even thinking?” and finally, my own answer of “Evidently not.”
I mean, who packs up six kids and four adults, a dog and whatever will fit into the back of a pickup truck and drives them across country to create a kind of tent settlement in the desert well into the latter half of the 20th century?
You're back at you're listening to radio revel, Season three: Four decades. And this is Episode 10, Forty acres, which I might have even called “The back, way back, forty acres”. I have not met anyone in my life who has had quite this kind of experience, though there are a couple of movies out there that kind of depict the same kind of parental irresponsibility, but those are fiction? Maybe not, been seeing too many YouTube videos about people living in their cars....
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