Comments | someinstant: bring me that horizon.

someinstant

bring me that horizon.

Jun 02, 2011 16:20

I love a good road trip. I really do. We didn't fly much when I was a kid-- too expensive-- so I grew up watching mountains grow and fade outside the windows of our family car, listening to my sister count cows or my parents sing along to the Beatles. I remember road trips as books, too-- we used to check books on tape out of the library before ( Read more... )

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wpadmirer June 2 2011, 20:41:24 UTC

Wow. That's cool. And I love your sketches. If I tried to do that, it would look far less like the places I was. (grin ( ... )

someinstant June 2 2011, 21:51:42 UTC

Man, that sounds lovely. I'd love to road trip through Canada-- my Canadian experience is limited to Toronto and Windsor, sadly. I'd love to see the Rockies up there.

wpadmirer June 2 2011, 22:01:13 UTC

Canada is pretty amazing. We were driving through it in August, and we saw the moon rising in the distance, but it was SO big, we thought we were seeing the dome of a sports facility until it got above the horizon. You'd like it.

stereowire June 2 2011, 20:53:24 UTC

This just makes me wish I had an epic American roadtrip to tell you about. Flying on planes doesn't quite scratch the same itch.

someinstant June 2 2011, 21:55:12 UTC

It really doesn't, does it? It's like you walk into a room in one city, endure the screaming child in the row behind you, and then-- a few hours later-- walk out of the same room into a different city. You really don't get the same sense of scale and distance when you travel by plane. Granted, traveling by plane is cool in its own right-- looking out the little windows, flying backwards into yesterday or skipping today all together and going ahead to tomorrow-- but you miss seeing the steps in between everything, you know?

stereowire June 2 2011, 23:29:46 UTC

Yeah, flying on planes is all about the destination, not the journey. Which is fine, because sometimes you just want to get somewhere, but a good journey is something totally different.

Man, screw it. I'm going on a roadtrip this summer. I've been putting it off long enough. Thanks for the inspiration :)

omglawdork June 2 2011, 21:40:55 UTC

Wow. Those are amazing sketches! What a gift to have given your future self ( ... )

omglawdork June 2 2011, 21:43:00 UTC

So basically - and this is God's own truth - I have seen a whole, whole lot of the southern half of the U.S. and almost none of the northern half. I've never even been to Chicago or Boston, for heaven's sake, and I didn't go to NY until I was in law school. Go figure. ;-)

someinstant June 2 2011, 21:58:57 UTC

Heh. I live about an hour from Stone Mountain, and have seen that laser show probably every summer since I was five. (I don't think it has changed much in the intervening years, to be honest.)

And re: you reaction to western New Mexico and Arizona-- let me just say DITTO. Man, it's unreal out there. So incredibly beautiful. I remember my mother telling me about her trip to the Grand Canyon before I left on my Epic Roadtrip, and she kept saying, "It's-- big. It's so big. I mean, you know it's going to be big, but it doesn't make sense, it's so just big." And that's kind of how I felt most of the Southwest.

lapiccolina June 3 2011, 01:30:12 UTC

You're sketches are really cool.

I've yet to take an epic road trip. I gotta do that one day!