Wannaskan Almanac

                The Happy Warrior The past two weeks I wrote about epic hitchhiking trips, one bad. After the bad one I opted to travel by plane or my own vehicle.      With most of my old family in Boston and my new family in Wannaska, this involved many 1,750 mile trips, often in older vehicles. Two years after Teresa and I were married we bought our place in Wannaska. We had been living in a duplex in St. Paul.      We bought a 1969 Ford truck. This was in 1975. Nowadays a six year old truck would be considered almost new. Then it was considered almost old.      We needed a truck to haul our belongings North. One weekend a month we’d haul a load to our new place and store it in the garage. We were renting out the house at the time. It’s amazing how much one couple can accumulate in two years.  One summer we drove the truck to Boston to accumulate more stuff from my parents. The trip out went fin...