Day and night at the library

Night at the Library

I cycled by the library and decided to stop there for the middle of the day, not to burn on the sun. Then the rain came. Then the rain stopped, but the night came.

The library closed at 9 PM. I introduced myself to the local police so they knew what I was going to do – to hang my hammock somewhere around the library. It wasn’t supposed to rain at night, but it did. Plus thunderstorm.
With the first drops, around 1 AM, I jumped out of my hammock, grabbed it and the bike, and hide under the tiny porch. Just for a sec, because it was light on with a lot of mosquitos around. I packed quickly and cycled to the police station under the first flash of lightning.
I was seating for a couple of hours there, playing with my new phone, then cycled back to the library, hanged a hammock again, and slept till 8 AM, when first people drove in to drop their books. There was a McDonald’s nearby, so I cycled there for the bathroom, while the library was still closed, and I took off towards Portsmouth.
 

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Lena Faber used to work as a journalist at a mainstream Russian newspaper, wrote books for a major publishing house, and directed her original concept on TV. In 2009, she moved to South Africa, taught at the university, took up running, and earned a silver medal at the World Masters Athletic Championship in California and, in the meantime, won an international photo contest with following up solo exhibition. In 2014 she "shut the door" and gone hiking the Appalachian Trail, cycling from Chicago to LA (US Route 66), from Maine to Florida, from London to Orkney, etc. Now in MidCoast, Maine.