Going to Palatka

While I was hiking the Florida Trail,  I got sick and ended up in a motel room in Palatka, Florida.   I was hanging out in the motel, flipping through stations, when I happen upon a show  featuring large women with very long hair and long skirts  singing and playing the guitar.   Then a large older woman stands up at the podium and starts talking.   Only every once in awhile she just starts talking gibberish.  Like, ” yokumah, leakum, radooo, vohalla! Oh yes, Lord, vuhallah!” .    After she was done talking/gibbering the other women would start singing and playing the guitar for awhile.

I had never seen anything like it and couldn’t turn away.

Someone told me his  parents use the term “going to Palatka” as a euphemism for death.

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Hermit, long distance hiker, primitive cabin dweller, seeker.

One thought on “Going to Palatka”

  1. Sounds like it was a Christian channel/show where the older woman was exhibiting glossolalia (aka: speaking in tongues)? Weird stuff indeed.

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