Very much this.
I once travelled the length of the old Route 66 and have never met such hospitality and genuine interest in strangers. The only rude people I ever encountered were in cities, but even then they were rare.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
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I met some lovely people out in rural Pennsylvania.
It was only the shower of pissflaps I worked for that spoilt it.
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sun 11 Sep 2011, 13:47,
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