Okay, so the summer update thing clearly didn't happen. But here's the super condensed bullet points version, just to jog the memory later:

• If you're ever in Texas, you should absolutely stop at the little mom-and-pop-type restaurants you might see along the way. Unlike in the Midwest (Welcome to Fingal, population 20 surly farmers and a billion ( Read more... )

I have returned to New Hampshire - it's good to be back. Will back-post more goings-on in the future; I don't want to be that guy but if I haven't written as much as I would like it's just because I'd rather not stop doing fun things in order to blog about them. A summer movie style teaser then: Coming soon to this Livejournal: Delicious pie! ( Read more... )

Too much has happened since my last post to give a full account, but here are some highlights:

-I'm in Austin now. It's a pretty sweet town. Will be here a day or so before making the last big trek across the Ozarks up to Philadelphia, and from there to Connecticut, Williamstown, Somerville, and Maine. Trip's winding down, in other words. I'd ( Read more... )

In Eugene, Oregon with Adriann. Everything is awesome. She's is house-sitting for a friend, so we're staying at a place with a huge garden and lots of ripe berries and a funky old book collection and an unknown number of cats. And no hot water, but the weather's nice enough to do without.

Eugene is kind of like Somerville if only hippies lived there ( Read more... )

"Did your glasses really just blow right off your head?"
"Yup."
"They're made of fucking metal!"
"This wind is fucking metal."

Arrived in Richland, WA yesterday afternoon; I'll be staying at Gavin's totally-not-a-motel-room apartment for the next few days.

The last couple hundred miles of the drive were through about the most depressing terrain ever. ( Read more... )

Making my way across the top of the country, five hundred, six hundred miles a day. Even the big interstates drop down to just two lanes from time to time and even the dusty back roads run straight as graph paper, so I don't really feel like I'm missing the scenery. And the locals I've met along the way have been standoffish if not downright rude ( Read more... )

Driving on the interstate tells you nothing about the states you're driving through. It does tell you about the interstate, which is kind of a separate nation in itself. Out-of-state plates are more common than in-state. Trucks outnumber cars here (especially at night), and the companies they ship for aren't stores or manufacturers, they're just ( Read more... )

Expected swim ended up being just a dip, with most of the (too short) morning taken up by an attempted hike up Pine Cobble. We didn't make it to the top - turned back about 0.8 miles from the summit, according to the trail markers - but that did leave time for the aforementioned dip, in the absolutely freezing Green River, and lots of friendly ( Read more... )

Lazy morning, blueberry pancakes (I'm just kind of allergic because of the eggs, but still so worth it), more gaming fun and a chance to burn some CDs and decorate my new laptop (the one I'm using to write all this). It's a Dell, it's I don't even know how old, it chokes on City of Heroes, and I bought it after less than a minute of looking on eBay ( Read more... )

Somehow I managed to avoid a hangover the next morning. Took a walk through the surrounding woods (and swamps, as it turns out) - I'm eager to explore the rest of the country but as a baseline, I still really love New England. Everything's so lush and green right now, and the upside of having six months of crap weather is when things finally do ( Read more... )