I'm not making the connection to the title. Yes, some guitars have f-holes, but most don't. F-holes aren't mentioned in the body of the article either. None of the guitar pictures feature guitars that do have F-holes.
I drew a connection to her getting out of owning the van, and the word "f-hole", which can also be short for "fuck hole". The van for a long time was a place of comfort, but over time it turned into prison made of memories. Her father lived in an f-hole, she's taking steps to avoid that. I took it as a reminder to not get stuck in a rut just because it's comfortable or familiar.
The article seems to meander. I'm not sure what the author is trying to convey. It goes into tangents and seems to be extremely wordy and hard to read in general. Half the article seems to be about living outside of a car and the rest is about photographic guitars (why these aren't in two separate articles I am not sure).
This is one of those that makes me ask "why is this on HN?" Not the passive-aggressive "I don't think this should be on HN" kind of thing. More, "no, seriously, why on earth did you think anyone but you would be interested in this rambling stream of consciousness. I'd really like to know because I'm obviously missing something."
At least one person (me) liked it, as a rambly interesting thing to read in the five minutes before leaving the office. So - I have no idea why the OP posted it, and it's definitely rather different from the usual things you see on HN, but I appreciate that they did. Cheers :)
(That said, I share another poster's confusion that F-holes are not mentioned!)
It's in the first paragraph. I would like to publicly renounce a belief system that once seemed useful and true to me; I’ve outgrown the romantic escapism of this mode of travel. She recently published a book of photographs http://aperture.org/shop/highway-kind about "the idea of the American dream juxtaposed against the reality".
