greetings from austin
Sep. 17th, 2003 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jfbNo time for the more thoughtful posts right now, but here is a list of some things I have seen:
A few more comments:
The scan feature of my car radio--which plays a few seconds of each station it can find, then goes on to the next--would be more useful if it were able to recognize when I started singing along.
Texas is huge. Also, gas is cheap here.
It has not escaped my attention that Hurricane Isabel and I are approaching North Carolina from roughly opposite directions.
- CHESS PLAY HERE, spraypainted on a wooden board on a fence on a farm on California Highway 152.
- Protein from Wisconsin! in 50s advertising cursive on the back of a truck.
- Casa de Fruta, a fruit stand grown to theme park proportions.
- There is a place on Interstate 5 where the northbound and southbound routes split to opposite sides of a small canyon. Deadpan, a standard highway sign warns: KEEP OFF MEDIAN.
- If you take the first Palm Springs exit from I-10, you will quickly come to a sign that says PALM SPRINGS CITY LIMIT. You will then drive for several miles before spotting anything that reminds you of a palm or a city. (As for springs, I couldn't tell you.)
- A MASTER PLANNED COMMUNITY, defiantly lettered on a sign that stands among acres of Arizona scrub and cacti.
- A lawyer's office in downtown El Paso--a city as entwined with Juarez as Minneapolis is with Saint Paul, except that Juarez is on the other side of the Mexican border--tells you what the lawyers specialize in: IMMIGRATION ACCIDENTS.
A few more comments:
The scan feature of my car radio--which plays a few seconds of each station it can find, then goes on to the next--would be more useful if it were able to recognize when I started singing along.
Texas is huge. Also, gas is cheap here.
It has not escaped my attention that Hurricane Isabel and I are approaching North Carolina from roughly opposite directions.
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Date: 2003-09-17 02:29 pm (UTC)Glad to hear you've made it to Austin without mishap.
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Date: 2003-09-17 09:51 pm (UTC)Lynn
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Date: 2003-09-18 12:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-18 12:37 am (UTC)I Miss you!
Haven't seen or heard from you in a long time. I'm sure I will get a kick out of listening to your "stories" when you come back.
Good luck to you!
Kristina