Another long day, but with a great destination. Berea is home Berea College, one of only three work-study colleges in the US, and the only one in which students pay no tuition. Admission standards are high, there is a minimum income to attend, and funding comes from endowment and alumni donations (demonstrating the success of their graduates). The campus is beautiful, red brick and big lawns and the students run everything from landscaping to food service to recycling. It was also the first college to educate blacks and whites together in the south before the civil war.
I am staying with two students, one spent a few years cycling and riding freight trains, the other is a writer/musician from Michigan whose accent is noticeably southern. (Apparently the accent just crept in over a few years.) They are the first ones along my route that I found on the warmshowers.org hosting site.
Was ecstatic to be out of coal country- big trucks and rock dust everywhere- and back into farm land- cows, falling down barns, and rolling hills. Unfortunately had to kick a particularly veracious dog in the face today as he nipped at my ankles.
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