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Travel (road travel): BLOG 3/21/2008. In the east 199 miles seems a lot. The drive got tedious. Coming home from Pittsburgh, where I went for training for a sales job, I took 22 alot of the way, being bored of I-70. Before Cambridge, where I would finally get the interstates home for good and be done with the US highways, a truck was travelling 35-40 miles an hour on the twisty and narrow 22 in Guernsey County (the 3rd county east of Cbus). Anxious as hell too with not much time before the job starts and possible trouble on the home front. So yeah, despite beautiful hilly east Ohio and west PA, the drive got tedius this time as matters were at home. Awesome places but seen it alot and had trouble on my mind this week.
BLOG 1/11/2008. I finished reading, Road Trip, by Tim Cahill. It's good, not great. A brief book that is 278 pages but manages to cram the trip into the last 170 pages. The first 100 pages are stuff leading up to the Guinness Book trip from the tip of South America to the top of Alaska in just under 24 days in a then, brand new 1987 GMC Sierra. The first 100 pages are skip-worthy or read fast. Two pages are of the United States, the biggest country in it, and only one highway is mentioned, US 77. The last half of the trip is put into thirty pages. Seeming like he wrote 240 pages and then got anxious and wanted to finish up the book quick. In comparison, Neil Peart's book I just read Landscape & Drums is 120 pages longer and smaller text and seems more complete. I just would've hoped Mexico through Alaska would've been covered better. I recommend it to read but don't pay too much for it. In the winter, it could be a 2-4 day read and is brief.
BLOG 9/06/2007: "The East Trip" Vacation was good, not great. We went to the ocean via I-70 to it's end in Baltimore . Stayed at a mediocre motel for $80 in a mediocre area. $80 out west would get a grandiose room, hell some places didn't even top 50 or 55 for a KICKASS room, slightly more than the clean but generic pool-less Motel 6. From Baltimore , traveling through a shit neighborhood on US 1 (you think our signature east coast US highway would go through decent neighborhoods) after a "all of the sudden" turn, I missed US40. Headed to Annapolis via I-97, it got me there, nothing more. Went into Annapolis , REAL NICE but was out of our budget. I see why, makes Catonsville , MD (the Baltimore stay) seem like hell. Saw the Naval Academy , world class. US50 east went over the $2.50 but worth the price for the views Chesapeake Bay Bridge . Heading south now towards Cambridge , another place with an amazing bridge. Heading east again on the last hour of US50 in the country, it gets cool after Salisbury with (50 is four lanes all the way from when we got on it in Annapolis ) tall jungle-like trees in the divider. Ocean City , there is a jam because of the traffic light at the end of US 50. We saw the " Sacramento , Ca 3073" miles sign. From too many cars and too little spaces and other lots that make you pay $8 to park. You have to pay to get to the fucking ocean, it's not like the Cincinnati Reds are playing the Pittsburgh Pirates there. I had nothing but big bills. The old guy wouldn't take six ones, instead of 8. Have mercy. Of course not, no courtesy in this decade. We never hit ocean water because we had a friggin car to deal with. Between that, crappy license plates that probably have not changed since they became the first state, and flat boring land up to Wilmington ; Delaware was unspectacular. We proceeded to stay in the Motel 6 in the south side of Wilmington . It was in my budget but it was a tiny room, no pool, and in a boring neighborhood. Since the ocean time thing failed, we got there at an early 6pm. Not planned well. Monday morning, actually somewhere besides freakin home. Left the motel and saw downtown Wilmington . Like Baltimore , the city rules but the 'burbs are scummy. Go down I-95 to Baltimore , it was an ok drive. We get back on the beginning of I-70, saw a sign Columbus 420, St Louis 845, Denver 1700, Cove Fort 2200 (Utah, the end, they rounded it up from more like 2150.) At Hancock by advice, took I-68 this time to Morgantown , it was tiring but my car faired well. Constant up and down up and down. Took I-79 to Washington PA and back on I-70 to home. Relieved. Way shorter driving days than out west but were more tiring. It was fun to drive for my 23rd birthday and see some new places and see some that I have not seen since 1993 but it was a 70% assed trip, a little bit more than half assed.
For now, where have I been to???
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