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Time to go, time to get back on the dust, the gravel, the wet morning woods of dawn’s crabby mug… folding up wet tents for nobody, not caring about facebook, knowing that nobody knows what town I’m in, and sitting against shop windows with moth-ball-smelling old lady skirts that fatten the racks of old-time thrift [...]

The 750-mile Occupy walk that Sarah and I helped organize from Washington DC to Atlanta has come to an end. A supporter put the entire marching group up in a southern mansion for three days of celebration, which came to an end yesterday. The marchers will now stay with other Atlanta-area supporters until beginning a [...]

On Thursday, December 1st Garth and Sarah will begin their second march, a much longer one this time. The 700-mile trek will take 45 days. The trip will begin with just $500 in donations and about 10 people. The whole plan has been thrown together in two days by us and a couple other members [...]

I attempted a shower this morning at the nearby office of a workers’ union that has opened up their facility to Occupiers. There is a shower sign-up sheet in the Freedom Plaza information tent, with hourly time slots available Monday thru Friday. Sarah and I followed our marching friend Teeni, a young US Army veteran, [...]

Liberty Plaza’s breakfast is still not served by 10:30AM so Sarah and I must go off to our marcher meeting at McPherson Square without food. Someone is luckily handing out hot grilled cheese sandwiches and augratin potatoes there. The meeting is for NYCtoDC marchers who plan on continuing with an Occupy bicycle tour, but only [...]

9AM, spoken over a megaphone by a man walking up and down the isles of tents: “WAKE UP! WAKE UP! GA WILL START IN 5 MINUTES! IF YOU DO NOT GET UP AND PARTICIPATE THEN WE WILL VOTE TO PUT UP A SNOOPY FLAG!” The man repeats the threat for several minutes, drawing angry shouts [...]

Wednesday, November 23, 2011: McPherson Square, Washington DC At the southwest corner of the one-block Square, Sarah and I sleep in our tent underneath what must be one of the largest ginkgo trees on the planet. Its yellow leaves cover much of the tent surface, prompting Sarah to emit a soft joyful screeching sound. Light [...]

(Note: Garth and Sarah lived at Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park, Manhattan, for two weeks then joined a two-week march from there to Washington DC. The following 18,200 words were composed by both Garth and Sarah. This is the full story of the march from Day 1 to Day 14. As of this Thanksgiving [...]