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May. 13th, 2004 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieWell, here I am, eight and a half hours of driving (well, reading while Dad drove) and five hours of unpacking later. And yet it's still only been twelve and a half hours, 'cause crossing time zones is fun. ;)
Random moments from the trip:
- Freakishly flat-as-a-pancake land in and around Columbus. Gambier is slightly hillier than the surrounding country, and I tend to forget that I'm actually in the midwest. The "Oh my God, the horizon is a straight line" land around the middle of the state reminds me of that.
- There's nothing like the town of Florence, Kentucky (about twenty minutes southwest of Cincinnati) with its bright red and white water tower with the words "Florence Y'all" painted on it to say, "only five more hours of I-65 before you're home!"
- There's nothing like a life-sized plastic T-Rex painted in tiger stripes advertising an entire museum of such creations outside of Bowling Green to make you say, "Oh, God, how many more hours do we have to spend in Kentucky?" (Answer: about forty-five minutes.)
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I'm gonna try for the friends list, but I'm not sure it's gonna happen. Me tired. Me also very lazy. ;)
Random moments from the trip:
- Freakishly flat-as-a-pancake land in and around Columbus. Gambier is slightly hillier than the surrounding country, and I tend to forget that I'm actually in the midwest. The "Oh my God, the horizon is a straight line" land around the middle of the state reminds me of that.
- There's nothing like the town of Florence, Kentucky (about twenty minutes southwest of Cincinnati) with its bright red and white water tower with the words "Florence Y'all" painted on it to say, "only five more hours of I-65 before you're home!"
- There's nothing like a life-sized plastic T-Rex painted in tiger stripes advertising an entire museum of such creations outside of Bowling Green to make you say, "Oh, God, how many more hours do we have to spend in Kentucky?" (Answer: about forty-five minutes.)
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I'm gonna try for the friends list, but I'm not sure it's gonna happen. Me tired. Me also very lazy. ;)
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Date: 2004-05-16 12:22 pm (UTC)Although w/ the midwest it could also be the utter (seemingly) lack of trees.
I'm glad you're home hon. Welcome back.
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Date: 2004-05-16 09:31 pm (UTC)I think most people who aren't raised in such an environment freak out to some extent when they're faced with it. Living in the Nashville basin makes me think it's odd not to see hills and ridges rising up all around me. And yeah, the lack of trees might have something to do with it...there's a lot of farmland around Columbus.
Another thing that's weird is not seeing the rock walls all around the roads where they've just blasted through the limestone instead of going over it. None of that in the midwest. It wasn't something I really noticed until I came back for my first break last year.
I'm glad you're home hon. Welcome back.
Thanks. :)