A change in the weather

or, when being a slacker pays off

Dear Field Trippers,

I write to you this week from Asheville, North Carolina. We came here for UNC-Asheville’s Junior Visit Day with two high-schoolers who, as it turns out, both have wicked coughs and congestion, and who have kept up a two-teen-band cacophony of respiratory distress. Cough cough snort sneeze snort snot-blow cough snort cough snot-blow s…