The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.
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BananaHands
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We're driving from Chicago to LA to help her move her stuff out here. There will be plenty of pics!
GasBandit
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Chicago to LA? TELL me you're taking Route 66 start-to-finish. That's a drive I've wanted to take on more than one occasion but never had a good excuse.
I-15/40/44/55 is a bit overrated in terms of a drive across country. I've driven a chunk of it in the past* and really wasn't impressed with the "mystique" of Route 66.
* - Bloomington IL to Williams AZ. I have never set foot in the state of California in my lifetime, and I don't mind if it remains that way.
Well maybe we didn't want you here anyway.
GasBandit
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I've only driven the Texas/NM section. Granted Tucumcari isn't anything to write home about but c'mon, man.
The only three things that I remember about the section in Texas is that big white cross in Groom, the Big Texan steak challenge sign, and my dad's car getting the door blown off-hinge from the winds in the Western part near the NM line.
Of course, there was that wrong turn in Albuquerque, but that's something else.
BananaHands
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I wish! We're trying to make the visit in two days (or else we'd stop to see you in Omaha, Dave) so it's straight to Denver, then Vegas then LA to grab a puppy.
When I drove cross-country to San Diego in a little '84 Escort hatchback in 1993, most of the drive through NM was a struggle to stay in my lane or on the road itself thanks to the gawdawful crosswinds.
Coulda been worse. One of the cars which caught my eye at the time I bought the Escort was this great big mid-70s blue Cordoba.
My manager's assistant had already announced he was leaving. His replacement, who was supposed to start next week, has now announced he's not going to take the job. My manager's just announced he's leaving, too.
Man, that makes 9 managers in 8 years - of which one lasted 4 years and one lasted 2 years - and 4 assistants in 2 years (they didn't used to have assistants before).
Gosh, maybe someone needs to take a good look at our department and figure out why it doesn't work?
Man, that makes 9 managers in 8 years - of which one lasted 4 years and one lasted 2 years - and 4 assistants in 2 years (they didn't used to have assistants before).
Gosh, maybe someone needs to take a good look at our department and figure out why it doesn't work?
I remember that thing from our AZ to NY drive! I also remember wondering why it was there and nothing else around it. Unless there is a series of random, giant white crosses in Texas. I wouldn't be shocked.
There's a series of giant crosses across the US, all built by different people.
I've seen more of Asia than the US at this point. It's times like these I wish we had a decent rail system. When I visited NYC last year, I was thinking of taking the Amtrak near Mt. Pleasant, PA to NYC, but looking at the schedule, not only would I not save more money by taking the train, it would also take longer to get there than simply renting a car and driving each way 6 hours.
This is pretty much true of most major landmarks if you're nearby, isn't it? I'm completely used to passing by 500+ year old buildings, and it's pretty much just another church after a while, while tourists flock around it like crazy 'cause there are no buildings like that in [fill in country of choice]. I'm sure that, for a lot of Chinese farmers, the Chinese Wall is just another annoyance while plowing their field.
In this case, there is nothing all that landmark-y about it near me. It looks like any other road in any other area. It quite literally got absorbed by the area around it.
That said, Niagara Falls is just a place I visited to go drinking on the weekends when I was 19/20.
It would be quicker if I drove from Morgantown to Harrisburg and picked up Amtrak there. 6 of the 9 hours the Pittsburgh-NYC trip is from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg on the Norfolk Southern freight line. I'd shave about three hours off the trip, but I'd have to do the driving in a car I don't fully trust.
That and I can take a travel pillow and snooze most of the way so I'm near a daytime schedule again once I hit Flushing. So I'm sticking to the long trip.
Eh, fine, then I have it mixed up between US and State roads. I admit my mistake.Uh, Route 66 didn't go through Colorado.
GasBandit
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Which, the unit of force, or the cookie sized fig cakes?
64.37 pound cubit per unix time per swatch beat or something silly according to Americans, I'm sure
Only a total douche bag could forget a fig newton.
GasBandit
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Cajungal
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HUUUUUUUUGSIt's a beautiful sunny spring day and I want to give everyone hugs!
[emoji4] I needed that.