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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.