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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Don't be afraid to just phone moi

I got a lovely call from Amanda earlier today. She and her fiancée are driving across the country, leaving the home of the Red Sox to move to the hippy goodness of Eugene, OR. It’s been fun to check in with them and today she called me from Iowa. She was wandering out on the hills of Iowa and she WAS thinking of me! Sweet!

I’m a bit jealous as I’ve been to both coasts but not seen much in between. I would love to have the time to make such a journey and see all there is to see. Which today for Amanda is corn…Instead I am leaving on a jet plane to San Francisco (city of snakes?) for a wee visit with Flora tomorrow after work.

Anyone else have cross-country road trip stories? Or if you are a Dar fan and caught the point of this post, have you heard any more of the new album yet?

posted by K-Lyn @ 11:34 PM  

3 Comments:

  • At 12:28 AM, Blogger Neel Mehta said…

    You know me. In 1997 I drove from St. Louis to Portland, and in 2004 from coastal NC to Las Vegas. Things I learned:

    1. Purple mountain majesties exist. At least in Utah, depending on the angle of sunlight.

    2. Western Kansas is really, really boring. They should have bookended the interstate with big cities like they did Missouri. By "they," I mean the Eisenhower administration.

    3. Amarillo is really cold at night.

    4. The wind in Cheyenne is so strong that the snow appears to travel horizontally. And this was in May.

    5. Desperate drives call for desperate listening. The aforementioned western Kansas was bearable because I was listening to a sex advice book on tape. Jay-Z saved me in New Mexico.

     

  • At 2:17 PM, Blogger Julie said…

    1. Never take I-80 through Nebraska. Go up to I-90 instead, which runs through South Dakota and actually has some scenery, like The Badlands.
    I was driving the family van through Nebraska, nothing but corn and more corn. Mum wakes up and says, “What’s nice about it is that you can fall asleep for a couple of hours and when you wake up the scenery hasn’t changed so you felt like you haven’t missed anything.”

    Song recommendations: I-90 by Chris and Johnny, Omaha by The Counting Crows
    And yes, I have listened to Dar’s Iowa while actually in Iowa.

    2. What’s weird is that there are some places where you just have to listen to country. Nothing else fits when you are in certain places in Wyoming and the dust is blowing. Luckily the radio played things like Dolly, who is easy on the ears to us who aren’t use to country.

    3. It was either Missouri or Kansas that I saw my first Pro-Fur billboard. It also listed hunting, fishing and said, “An American Tradition.” I yelled back at it, “so is slavery!”

    4. It is possible to have ice on the inside of the car. Leaving SD on a cold Jan morn (headed for MO) in a van full of people who “steamed up the windows.” Then the steam froze!

    3. Montana is big sky country. Somehow the sky does look bigger there. Maybe it is the illusion from the hills being so far away from highway.

    Dar: I’ve heard the Pink Floyd cover from the album and it is decent cover.

     

  • At 5:17 PM, Blogger Neel Mehta said…

    2. What’s weird is that there are some places where you just have to listen to country. Nothing else fits when you are in certain places in Wyoming and the dust is blowing.

    Julie's absolutely right. Wyoming west of Cheyenne was a place where I felt I might get pulled over and ticketed if I wasn't listening to country. Fortunately, I like some country.

    3. Montana is big sky country. Somehow the sky does look bigger there. Maybe it is the illusion from the hills being so far away from highway.

    I've noticed this too when I was in Idaho. I've never been anywhere else, short of an oceanside, where the field of vision is so dominated by the semicircular realm of sky.

    Another good call, Julie. It totally deserved to be the second #3 on your list.

     

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