*collapses*

[icepixie]

Well, 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. ;)

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[spleeny.livejournal.com]

- 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!"

I heard that Florence, Italy is going to be doing the same thing. Kinda weird.

By the way, it's National Nick Makes Up Strange and Oddly Relevant News in Becca's LJ Day, in case you were wondering.

[icepixie]

I heard that Florence, Italy is going to be doing the same thing. Kinda weird.

Except it'll have some kind of Michelangelo-esque rendering of some be-overalled hillbilly in his rusty pickup truck with a coon dog panting out the window to go with it and make it...uh...classier. Er. Yeah.

By the way, it's National Nick Makes Up Strange and Oddly Relevant News in Becca's LJ Day, in case you were wondering.

Hey, more interesting than CNN...


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[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Except it'll have some kind of Michelangelo-esque rendering of some be-overalled hillbilly in his rusty pickup truck with a coon dog panting out the window to go with it and make it...uh...classier. Er. Yeah.

The sad part is that I can totally picture this. It has to be called Renaissance Hick.

[cybermathwitch.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one that lack of hills/flat horizon = freak out. Shudder. Heck, even just being in M'boro, as opposed to Dickson is kinda weird cause we're on a flood plain.

Although w/ the midwest it could also be the utter (seemingly) lack of trees.

I'm glad you're home hon. Welcome back.

[icepixie]

Hee! Like the Redneck Riviera? (That would be the Gulf coast of Alabama and the Florida panhandle.) Heh.

[icepixie]

Glad I'm not the only one that lack of hills/flat horizon = freak out.

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. :)

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

The Redneck Riviera? We're rapidly approaching aspects of Southern culture that confuse and frighten me. Next thing you'll tell me is that Georgia has the fastest growing theatre district in the country.

Actually, don't tell me that even if it is true.

[icepixie]

The Redneck Riviera?

It's more my parents' generation that calls it that, but yeah...

We're rapidly approaching aspects of Southern culture that confuse and frighten me. Next thing you'll tell me is that Georgia has the fastest growing theatre district in the country.

Actually, don't tell me that even if it is true.

Heh. Heh heh heh. So I take it you don't want a recipe for Possum Surprise?

[spleeny.livejournal.com]

Heh. Heh heh heh. So I take it you don't want a recipe for Possum Surprise?

If one of the ingredients is "possum," then no.

[icepixie]

It can't be worse than some of the stuff Aramark tries to pass off as meat at school...