dlfkjfs SO AWESOME OMG. We could plot a course across the country to visit all kinds of cheesy tourist attractions AND as many fangirls as possible. *NODS*
YES HAVE YOU READ AMERICAN GODS? About how churches are two a penny but the real power is in the roadside attractions, and we could go see, like, the biggest ever ball of string and then go and attack unamaga and ladycat777, go to the house on the rock and see who would let us steal their floor nearby...
Having grown up in the midwestern US and seen a lot of these things, it's somewhere between adorable and hilarious to me when people get so excited over them. :D Heeee <3.
VISIT INDIANA'S MYSTERY SPOT. THE BALL ROLLS *UP HILL*!!!11 (or I think it was indiana, idk, it's all prairies and corn in my memory)
I've always wanted to get a van and drive a bunch of my BC friends down to the Southeastern US to give them A Real Tour of America®. With grits and chicken-fried steak and rebel assholes shooting at our BC-plated van, it would be so much fun omg
I know, okay, I know it's crap, that's the POINT. All of that (apart from the meat) sounds AWESOME. I watched the topgear American specials and I think they were supposed to be scary but I was like OMG BRING ON THE BULLETHOLES
Hee that's what I'm saying (and I hope it doesn't sound like I was making fun; gently teasing at most).
I remember somewhere in ... Michigan? Ohio? there's this stupidly huge Paul Bunyan statue with an ox. Googling says there are about eighty billion of these throughout the Midwest, but here I thought I was special.
Also: Florida highways are full of things like ALLIGATOR PARK, PET THE ALLIGATOR and stuff. So make sure to spread out on your road trip. :D
I know it's an OLD THREAD now but I had to find this for someone else and so now I figure I must share
here have the world's only monument to an agricultural pest (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=31.314584,-85.854115&spn=0,359.99775&z=19&layer=c&cbll=31.314464,-85.854007&panoid=-DI2swnfdzszS6lfb4NqBQ&cbp=12,250.13,,1,-10.61). Yes, that's a statue holding up a giant boll weevil. It's in Enterprise, Alabama. And yes, I went there on a family road trip when I was like 14. Hee.
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:14 pm (UTC)Dude. It would be beyond awesome. I would make about a million mix CDs.
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:33 pm (UTC)I love Gneil indecently, I swear, but American Gods gave me characters in my head, and I so need to write about them one day, they are AWESOME.
Gneil is, like, my braincrush. If I could be one eighth as good as him some day I would be happy forever.
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:09 pm (UTC)You know who your writing reminds me of? Douglas Adams. :D
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:17 pm (UTC)I LOVE YOU INDECENTLY FOR THAT
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:33 pm (UTC)VISIT INDIANA'S MYSTERY SPOT. THE BALL ROLLS *UP HILL*!!!11 (or I think it was indiana, idk, it's all prairies and corn in my memory)
I've always wanted to get a van and drive a bunch of my BC friends down to the Southeastern US to give them A Real Tour of America®. With grits and chicken-fried steak and rebel assholes shooting at our BC-plated van, it would be so much fun omg
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:52 pm (UTC)I remember somewhere in ... Michigan? Ohio? there's this stupidly huge Paul Bunyan statue with an ox. Googling says there are about eighty billion of these throughout the Midwest, but here I thought I was special.
Also: Florida highways are full of things like ALLIGATOR PARK, PET THE ALLIGATOR and stuff. So make sure to spread out on your road trip. :D
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:51 pm (UTC)SHOW ME STUFF!
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Date: 2009-06-10 07:03 pm (UTC):D
WORLD'S LARGEST PYROGY (http://www.roadsideattractions.ca/pyrogy.htm)
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Date: 2009-06-11 04:05 pm (UTC)here have the world's only monument to an agricultural pest (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=31.314584,-85.854115&spn=0,359.99775&z=19&layer=c&cbll=31.314464,-85.854007&panoid=-DI2swnfdzszS6lfb4NqBQ&cbp=12,250.13,,1,-10.61). Yes, that's a statue holding up a giant boll weevil. It's in Enterprise, Alabama. And yes, I went there on a family road trip when I was like 14. Hee.
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 05:38 pm (UTC)#2 I have to move and I am, like, craptastic with money. Give me a year to save up?
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:55 pm (UTC)2. Time limits are yay!
and then I can squish you a lot, right? I kind of want to be squishy and cuddly with people
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Date: 2009-06-10 05:56 pm (UTC)(also please forgive any inappropriate. I am frequently inappropriate.)
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 06:51 pm (UTC)I think I would die of lack of homemade food though...
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 06:57 pm (UTC)GOD RAMI I MISS SNUGGLING YOU SO MUCH
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Date: 2009-06-10 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 07:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-10 07:03 pm (UTC)If we somehow manage to get the money, we'll totally get you a ticket. :-p
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