There are many possible excuses (and we'll name a couple), but the fact is that we won't be writing the word learn as planned, if at all. The idea was to build the word with the help from the architectural students at Auburn University enrolled in Rural Studio.
The first thing was that we arrived in Auburn and Rural Studio is in Newbern, some 200 miles away! That wouldn't be a problem since we'll be driving some 6,000 miles in this journey and coincidentally Newbern was on our way. We were also told that students weren't on campus at this time of the academic year, so no help from them!
Still we thought that it would be nice to see some of the great buildings that Rural Studio has managed to build in a rural and economically depressed area.
It would be particularly interesting to understand the organizational and financial aspects of Rural Studio. We wanted to learn how they work. The word could have originated in this process.
Truth must be said that we weren't encouraged to visit Rural Studio ... Still, we were considering imposing ourselves :)
But then the meteorological conditions made the final decision for us. Heavy rain, a fierce thunderstorm, tornado and flood warnings that lasted the entire morning held us at Montegomery, halfway between Auburn and Newbern.
Given all this obstacles we decided to skip Newbern and head further down to New Orleans hoping that the word will appear somewhere along the way.
All things considered we have a lot of good excuses. So, please, excuse us.
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