My Iowa Commute - Page 9

HungLikeJesus · 06-15-2007, 07:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You better have a shitload of time.

That's why I haven't done it.

lizzymahoney · 06-15-2007, 07:32 PM

Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's

Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America.

This is one of my favorite books and I usually have a few thrifted copies around for people who haven't read it yet.

Blue Highways are the old US routes before the interstates went in. They still criss cross the country but are forgotten America in many ways. Route 66 is a blue highway.

bluecuracao · 06-15-2007, 07:53 PM

OK, I'm gonna beat our regular song-quoters to the punch:

Oh you know we're gonna ride
On a blue highway
Walk with the legs you're blind
On a blue highway
Wave hellow to pride
on my highway
Yes I almost died
On a blue highway

xoxoxoBruce · 06-16-2007, 01:10 PM

SG, traveling across America is the same as London to Moscow....twice. That's without the side trips and detours that are damn near mandatory. There are long stretches of it that are repetitious(boring) and should be traversed quickly for time and energy conservation. There are other sections that should be seen at a snails pace.

lizzymahoney · 06-16-2007, 03:06 PM

Only with a little more sauerkraut.

Sundae · 06-17-2007, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lizzymahoney

Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's

Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America.

This is one of my favorite books and I usually have a few thrifted copies around for people who haven't read it yet.

Blue Highways are the old US routes before the interstates went in. They still criss cross the country but are forgotten America in many ways. Route 66 is a blue highway.

PM me if you have one knocking about and you're willing to take a chance on a virtual unknown

Bruce - I know it wouldn't be non-stop pleasure, but it's a dream and if I had the money then I know I could schedule it so I could enjoy it.

HungLikeJesus · 06-17-2007, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

PM me if you have one knocking about and you're willing to take a chance on a virtual unknown

Bruce - I know it wouldn't be non-stop pleasure, but it's a dream and if I had the money then I know I could schedule it so I could enjoy it.

SG -- you have a lot of imaginary American Cellar friends. I think that you should plan a trip to visit some of them (I mean us, if I may make that assumption), which would save you a lot of money and provide you with local guides through out the country.

Sundae · 06-19-2007, 01:07 PM

I love the idea that I could do that HLJ - I'd like to at least have a beer with many Dwellars, although I'm so much more comfortable being the one imposed on than imposing.

I keep promising myself that with the great exchange rate (for the UK I mean) I'll buy at least $10 a week before the dollar gets any stronger. Something always comes up though!

I'll get my finances in order once I move. I promise I'll start working on a plan then.

jinx · 06-24-2007, 07:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jinx

I've been keeping a camera in my car, trying to get some shots of the hot air balloons we often see being launched in Eagle.

Just a couple minutes too slow to catch them on the ground today...

jinx · 06-24-2007, 07:36 PM

one more

Elspode · 06-24-2007, 08:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lizzymahoney

Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's

Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America.

I concur. This is a riveting, excellent, next best thing to being there read, and also one of my favorite tomes. When this book was at the height of its popularity in the 80's, I heard the author on the Larry King Show when it was still on radio. It was a nationally syndicated call in show back then, so I called in, and got on. My question of Least Heat Moon was simply, "Where did you get all the information for the stories you tell about the places you stopped? All the little historical asides, people's names and such?" His answer?

"You know all those roadside markers you usually drive past? I stopped at *all* of them."

Brilliant.

Undertoad · 06-24-2007, 08:29 PM

Commute route B. 10 minutes longer, unless 422 is seriously hosed. Usta be the same distance as commute A, but the fuckers closed a critical road I needed.

mill grove, historical home of john audubon

what "st gabe's curve" is named after

422 hosed again, as we pass over it

over the schuylkill river

the country club

over valley forge "mountain"

invisible driveways to the homes of the rich.

trees so dense and lush they interrupt mah satellite radio

horse farms

one lane bridges

and into officeland.

Cyclefrance · 06-25-2007, 12:21 AM

That beats the first commute for me, UT (but then I'm greenery fan!). Looks far more inviting and interesting - and much less stressful with so little traffic to contend with.

wolf · 06-25-2007, 10:39 AM

I didn't know they called that "Saint Gabe's Curve."

I see the place and it just makes me get irritable.

(Saint Gabe's is a school for exceptionally bad children, most of them from Philadelphia, all of them miserable, manipulative, little criminal bastards. Well, mostly bastards. I think that one or two have come from intact two-parent families.)

lumberjim · 06-25-2007, 11:51 AM

i jumped off the schuylkill today and went down East River Drive....thought of this thread and wished I'd had my camera....I'll get it one day...

06-16-2007, 01:10 PM	#124
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	SG, traveling across America is the same as London to Moscow....twice. That's without the side trips and detours that are damn near mandatory. There are long stretches of it that are repetitious(boring) and should be traversed quickly for time and energy conservation. There are other sections that should be seen at a snails pace. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-19-2007, 01:07 PM	#128
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I love the idea that I could do that HLJ - I'd like to at least have a beer with many Dwellars, although I'm so much more comfortable being the one imposed on than imposing. I keep promising myself that with the great exchange rate (for the UK I mean) I'll buy at least $10 a week before the dollar gets any stronger. Something always comes up though! I'll get my finances in order once I move. I promise I'll start working on a plan then. __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

06-24-2007, 07:36 PM	#130
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	one more Attached Images __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

06-25-2007, 12:21 AM	#133
Cyclefrance Pump my ride! Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Deep countryside of Surrey , England Posts: 1,890	That beats the first commute for me, UT (but then I'm greenery fan!). Looks far more inviting and interesting - and much less stressful with so little traffic to contend with. __________________ Always sufficient hills - never sufficient gears

06-25-2007, 10:39 AM	#134
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I didn't know they called that "Saint Gabe's Curve." I see the place and it just makes me get irritable. (Saint Gabe's is a school for exceptionally bad children, most of them from Philadelphia, all of them miserable, manipulative, little criminal bastards. Well, mostly bastards. I think that one or two have come from intact two-parent families.) __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

06-15-2007, 07:32 PM	#122
lizzymahoney Major Inhabitant Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 124	Sundae Girl, you might want to get a copy of William Least Heat-Moon's Blue-Highways-Journey-into-America. This is one of my favorite books and I usually have a few thrifted copies around for people who haven't read it yet. Blue Highways are the old US routes before the interstates went in. They still criss cross the country but are forgotten America in many ways. Route 66 is a blue highway.

06-15-2007, 07:53 PM	#123
bluecuracao in a mood, not cupcake Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Philadelphia Posts: 3,034	OK, I'm gonna beat our regular song-quoters to the punch: Oh you know we're gonna ride On a blue highway Walk with the legs you're blind On a blue highway Wave hellow to pride on my highway Yes I almost died On a blue highway

06-16-2007, 03:06 PM	#125
lizzymahoney Major Inhabitant Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 124	Only with a little more sauerkraut.

06-24-2007, 08:29 PM	#132
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Commute route B. 10 minutes longer, unless 422 is seriously hosed. Usta be the same distance as commute A, but the fuckers closed a critical road I needed. mill grove, historical home of john audubon what "st gabe's curve" is named after 422 hosed again, as we pass over it over the schuylkill river the country club over valley forge "mountain" invisible driveways to the homes of the rich. trees so dense and lush they interrupt mah satellite radio horse farms one lane bridges and into officeland.

06-25-2007, 11:51 AM	#135
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	i jumped off the schuylkill today and went down East River Drive....thought of this thread and wished I'd had my camera....I'll get it one day... __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

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