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As we near the end of 12,000 miles of blue highways, we would be slack if we failed to acknowledge the many public libraries we visited over the past three months, including Chapel Hill (NC), Palm Bay and Cocoa (FL), St. Martinville and Johnson Bayou (LA), Galveston (TX), Grand Canyon Village (AZ), London and Weston (OH), and finally Cazenovia (NY), where we were introduced to Jessie the Library Cat.
With wireless Internet, air-conditioning, clean restrooms, newspapers, and invariably informed and helpful staff to answer our questions, libraries were always a welcome stop along the way. (Jessie, by the way, comes and goes during the day, but returns before closing and lives in the library at night.) -DN