April 4, 1968
Getting up at midnight to set off on a 2-day excursion makes going to bed hardly worthwhile, but the nature of the excursion can make disruption of our customary way of doing things seem less than trivial.
A few minutes before midnight last Friday my alarm savagely yanked me out of a sound sleep and reminded me that it was time to get cracking. Half an hour later I was on any…





