Originally Posted by Mutt

I once went on a road trip through the US, car broke down on a four lane highway, I think it was Kentucky or Tennessee. This was long before cellphones, not much traffic going by, left my travelling companion by the car to flag down a cop or somebody - I saw a dirt gravel road on the other side of the side barrier of the highway and nothing but trees - so I decided to walk down that road to see what was there - walked a few hundred yards and then the road turned right and upward, walked up the hill and when i made it to the top, my jaw dropped. i don't think i'd ever seen quite what I saw depicted in any movie or on the news - hillbillies, a whole community of them, shacks - this wasn't white trash in trailers or Dukes of Hazzard - this was like a whole hidden or lost civilization i was seeing. there was no city and town nearby I don't think, i wondered where they got their food, did the kids go to school, did they have social security cards, does the government even know they exist.