Take me to another place, take me to another land...
Things I learned this past weekend:
- When they say "ten-hour drive", they MEAN "ten-hour drive". That's TEN HOURS sitting on your butt in the car as your back hurts more and more as the time crawls by.
- Indiana looks tiny on the map, but it's endless. All those miles of cornfields numb your brain to all sense of time or space.
- James Dean's grave is kinda pathetic for someone so badass.
- Kentucky is pretty once you get past Louisville. Hills! Trees! Valleys! Wheeee!
- The Jim Beam distillery needs to be closer to the highway so I don't get lost outside of Boston, Kentucky, and end up not tasting free bourbon.
- Towns in Tennessee have funny names, e. g. "Bucksnort".
- There are entirely too many Cracker Barrels between Lansing, Michigan, and Bruceton, Tennessee, and they all look exactly the same inside (Of course, I DID eat at three of them, so I should know).
- My brother's puppy is adorable. Who's a cute-widdle-brown-fuzzy-Chewbacca-puppydog? YOU are! Yes, YOU are!
- My family is still every bit as annoying as I remembered.
- My grandma is a lot funnier and more fun to be around than I remembered.
- There's nothing to do in rural Tennessee except visit BBQ joints and Wal-Mart.
- Mammoth Cave is SWEET, and a nice cool way to spend the hottest summer day in history. Plus the rangers at the park are cute.
- Redneck families don't like it when you encroach on their fireworks-watching spot in Indiana hotel parking lots.
- You can't buy beer in Indiana on a Sunday. Assholes!
- Crossing the Michigan state line is like coming home, no matter how far away your home town may be. Wait, I already knew that.
- When they say "ten-hour drive", they MEAN "ten-hour drive". That's TEN HOURS sitting on your butt in the car as your back hurts more and more as the time crawls by.
- Indiana looks tiny on the map, but it's endless. All those miles of cornfields numb your brain to all sense of time or space.
- James Dean's grave is kinda pathetic for someone so badass.
- Kentucky is pretty once you get past Louisville. Hills! Trees! Valleys! Wheeee!
- The Jim Beam distillery needs to be closer to the highway so I don't get lost outside of Boston, Kentucky, and end up not tasting free bourbon.
- Towns in Tennessee have funny names, e. g. "Bucksnort".
- There are entirely too many Cracker Barrels between Lansing, Michigan, and Bruceton, Tennessee, and they all look exactly the same inside (Of course, I DID eat at three of them, so I should know).
- My brother's puppy is adorable. Who's a cute-widdle-brown-fuzzy-Chewbacca-puppydog? YOU are! Yes, YOU are!
- My family is still every bit as annoying as I remembered.
- My grandma is a lot funnier and more fun to be around than I remembered.
- There's nothing to do in rural Tennessee except visit BBQ joints and Wal-Mart.
- Mammoth Cave is SWEET, and a nice cool way to spend the hottest summer day in history. Plus the rangers at the park are cute.
- Redneck families don't like it when you encroach on their fireworks-watching spot in Indiana hotel parking lots.
- You can't buy beer in Indiana on a Sunday. Assholes!
- Crossing the Michigan state line is like coming home, no matter how far away your home town may be. Wait, I already knew that.