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catching up a bit:
Nov. 14th, 2011 04:24 pm-there is a lot I never wrote about and am continuing to not write about. I shall start with a list of all the states we passed through that were not GA. You know what I think about GA.
Florida again; tbh I can't remember which side of the GA/FL state line this is, but there are now TWO absofuckinglutely gigantic confederate flags billowing out over I-75 on the way south. I have been telling people this a lot lately, just as a catch-all explanation for why I am moving. See, I don't even need to mention the series of billboards that inform we passers-through that HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINATION. Tampa is still nice but way too much of a sprawl for me. I do admire Florida for having an original, way-out-edgy ecosystem compared to the entire rest of the country, though!
The Carolinas, both of them; we like Charleston but the rest is kinda excruciatingly boring. Doesn't help that they go on forever and ever.
Virginia; looks/feels alarmingly like northern France at times, because it is flat and it's about here that the trees start getting smaller and more familiar. We were amused by the threats of SPEED LIMITS IMPOSED BY AIRCRAFT and were expecting our car to get shot at, which did not happen. (It got dark here so we didn't see any other states properly until NJ the next morning).
DC; crazy drive, crazy crazy beautiful city, we want to come here in daylight very badly.
Maryland; OFFICIAL LEAST FAVOURITE STATE. Horrible traffic jam at half past ten on a Sunday night, v. not satisfactory given that we'd set off from Tampa at 3.30am. Baltimore earned our eternal h8. NEVER AGAIN.
Delaware; i am not sure how it even counts as a state, let alone gets away with charging road tolls for its existence.
New Jersey; end day 1, start day 2. Looks like the real world but wow did I fail at figuring out how not to get on the turnpike.
New York; love it love it love it. George Washington Bridge is possibly even worth the outrageous road toll.
Connecticut; looks very real, all rolling hills and convincingly normal grey cities, and provided acceptable coffee.
Massachusetts; i can't spell this state, how am i going to be moving there. Unexpectedly rural until it wasn't. Boston is unnavigable but that's alright because everyone is trying to run you off the road anyway, including - especially! the cyclists. Full of delicious ambient communism eg. the solar-powered trash-compacting litterbins. We had to look very hard before we found any graffiti or other signage that filled us with rage. And everyone is completely wonderful and the lack of pervasive sexism was an utter relief.
Pennsylvania; mostest beautiful. Parts of it are very much like the little hill-valleys I grew up in, ie. really cute but gonna assume they are horrible places to actually live. Pittsburgh is a gem, though - as steep as Leeds, as cheap as the area we live now and parts of it look as civilised as NW1 (other parts, less so). M thinks it's stupid that Pittsburgh exists and we're not moving there. However, if we can't make the Boston thing work out within a year we are going to move there.
West Virginia; SO AMAZINGLY BORING that we stopped at one of those rural roadside sexshops and blew a whole load of money and spent the rest of West Virginia experimenting with our haul in the car.
Tennessee; okay so at this point we were just DONE with this whole DRIVING FOREVER thing and i don't even know any more, it's Tennessee, we'd been there before and we weren't even getting to see the pretty part, seriously what is the point of it even being there except to annoy us. Stupid Knoxville.
Florida again; tbh I can't remember which side of the GA/FL state line this is, but there are now TWO absofuckinglutely gigantic confederate flags billowing out over I-75 on the way south. I have been telling people this a lot lately, just as a catch-all explanation for why I am moving. See, I don't even need to mention the series of billboards that inform we passers-through that HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINATION. Tampa is still nice but way too much of a sprawl for me. I do admire Florida for having an original, way-out-edgy ecosystem compared to the entire rest of the country, though!
The Carolinas, both of them; we like Charleston but the rest is kinda excruciatingly boring. Doesn't help that they go on forever and ever.
Virginia; looks/feels alarmingly like northern France at times, because it is flat and it's about here that the trees start getting smaller and more familiar. We were amused by the threats of SPEED LIMITS IMPOSED BY AIRCRAFT and were expecting our car to get shot at, which did not happen. (It got dark here so we didn't see any other states properly until NJ the next morning).
DC; crazy drive, crazy crazy beautiful city, we want to come here in daylight very badly.
Maryland; OFFICIAL LEAST FAVOURITE STATE. Horrible traffic jam at half past ten on a Sunday night, v. not satisfactory given that we'd set off from Tampa at 3.30am. Baltimore earned our eternal h8. NEVER AGAIN.
Delaware; i am not sure how it even counts as a state, let alone gets away with charging road tolls for its existence.
New Jersey; end day 1, start day 2. Looks like the real world but wow did I fail at figuring out how not to get on the turnpike.
New York; love it love it love it. George Washington Bridge is possibly even worth the outrageous road toll.
Connecticut; looks very real, all rolling hills and convincingly normal grey cities, and provided acceptable coffee.
Massachusetts; i can't spell this state, how am i going to be moving there. Unexpectedly rural until it wasn't. Boston is unnavigable but that's alright because everyone is trying to run you off the road anyway, including - especially! the cyclists. Full of delicious ambient communism eg. the solar-powered trash-compacting litterbins. We had to look very hard before we found any graffiti or other signage that filled us with rage. And everyone is completely wonderful and the lack of pervasive sexism was an utter relief.
Pennsylvania; mostest beautiful. Parts of it are very much like the little hill-valleys I grew up in, ie. really cute but gonna assume they are horrible places to actually live. Pittsburgh is a gem, though - as steep as Leeds, as cheap as the area we live now and parts of it look as civilised as NW1 (other parts, less so). M thinks it's stupid that Pittsburgh exists and we're not moving there. However, if we can't make the Boston thing work out within a year we are going to move there.
West Virginia; SO AMAZINGLY BORING that we stopped at one of those rural roadside sexshops and blew a whole load of money and spent the rest of West Virginia experimenting with our haul in the car.
Tennessee; okay so at this point we were just DONE with this whole DRIVING FOREVER thing and i don't even know any more, it's Tennessee, we'd been there before and we weren't even getting to see the pretty part, seriously what is the point of it even being there except to annoy us. Stupid Knoxville.