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I've had 4 days
to try and decide how to best describe William Minor (above in the grey
shirt) in just a few words.
I met William at the Collinsville Rural Fire Department Thursday evening
April 21st, 2011, after Tim Nelson (above in orange shirt) contacted
me. William is from Pennsylvania but has been on the road via bicycle
(& attached side pack) for the past three years (~13K miles). Mr.
Minor tries to visit as many fire departments as he can in his travels
to honor their noble efforts. But the fundamental reason for his travels
is more elusive. He is a former journalist (Miami Herald in Florida)
who is on a quest (as I understand it) to be ahead of what he believes
is an unfolding story of "significant" changes in weather
patterns, earthquakes and volcanos.
His recent travels in Oklahoma have been driven by instinct, weather,
seismic & other data he gathers daily from observation, conversation
and the internet. He had concerns with changes to the jet stream, dry
line and recent drought here. He said that he had not wanted to leave
Oklahoma until we had rain ... which he saw here Thursday. I don't know
if he stayed for the day-long rain Sunday and continuing rain today
(4/25/2011).
His quest (from
what I gathered in just a brief visit) is much deeper but I'm gonna
have to keep this brief to have any chance of meeting my May 1st deadline
to put the ~170 CHS 2010 grad pages online. -- Ted Wright
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