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Haha great point here!I have also found myself in rather awkward positions from time to time about what I write on Song of the Open Road haha. I feel that a traveler must write of the people and places that they travel through as they view it. It seems to be very difficult for many people to accept other people writing what they feel about them . . . I think that I have even lost a few aquaintances by doing this haha. But I would much rather write my impressions as blatantly and honestly as I can, rather than editing based upon how I think someone may react to it. People are a major part of the traveling/ writing experience, and I believe that making the occasional person angry by writing about them or publishing their photograph is rounded out by the fact that you can look yourself in the face at night and realized that you honestly wrote your impressions of the world that you are traveling through.If you leave your own home, then you are fair game for photographers- cameras just collect impressions of light waves; the thought that someone can own the rights to the light waves that bounce off of them is absurd. . . or so it is my feeling as of right now. If you speak to a writer, then you are fair game to be written about. Most all ethnographies that reach the population that they were written about usually cause a stir in the community- they piss people off, people say that what was written was not true etc . . .This is just part of the Road, I say. A few hazards and bumps should not end a journey nor is cause for excessive detours. haha.Keep on it, Andy! Wade from Vagabond Journey.com