500 miles EXACTLY...
from Days Inn (or whatever) to KOA Kampsite...
What a day it was - out on the road the weather was much better, and while I wouldn't say there was storm damage, there were a few places we noticed the rain had really hit.
A few notes left out of yesterday's post:
There is a Scott Hamilton Drive in Little Rock - isn't that precious?
Maybelline, L'Oreal and Remington all had huge factories within 10 miles of each other in Arkansas - what does that say... lipstick and bullets, just missing cigarettes (tobacco fields nearby, no doubt)
Fuel:
331 miles
43.052 gallons
$101.99
2.369/gallon
7.69 mpg
Live:
Heron
Roadkill:
No idea - possible razorback
Armadillo - many
Deer
Racoon
Possum
2 bags of Laundry
So, back to today; there was of course a
fuel stop...
257 miles
34.576 gallons
$78.11
2.259/gallon
7.43 mpg - not getting any better...
There are an amazing amount of Dinosaur Museums and Dinosaur Exhibits here in the Bible Belt, and I find that kind of confusing. Isn't the dinosaur kinda like the Evolution Poster child; doesn't it pretty much insist that the world is a little more than 6000 years old (don't the Chinese and Egyptian Dynasties do that as well)?
Anyway, these folks are in love with Jesus and Dinosaurs - both; and don't forget are gravidly obese on top of this. I think that's a little twisted, but I'm just a tourist...
We crossed the 5K mile mark today - wow! It was somewhere around there that we also listened to the horrible 5$ CDs I bought at the C-Store yesterday - all I can say to that is please rent the DVD of The Eyes of Laura Mars - really bad from the past - if you've never seen it. It's Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones and some sick 70s disco... totally worth it.
So, we needed to stop for lunch, but I of course had conveniently forgotten it would be Sunday brunch down here in the belt - Marge was looking for anything other than the fast food offerings, so we found ourselves at a Cracker Barrel. More like Crack-ass Barrel... how depressing... this place makes quaint poverty and backwoods ignorance; it doesn't strike me as amusing or quaint since we had just spent days driving through it. Add to that the waitresses response to my request for a beer - "this is a family restaurant"... what does that mean, I can get in debt, beat the kids, screw around on the wife in here, but not drink... If I had had my clergy identification on me, I would've preached to her about her sins.... we just ate up and left.
Back on the road... a long way to go. We had set our sights south of Cincinatti, but first we hoped to visit Mammoth Cave.
We checked the website last night and found out there was a self-guided tour for about 3/4ths of a mile - that's what we like, so we added that in the plan. After some incredibly poorly signed roads getting to the Visitor's Center, we find out that you can only do the self-guided tour if and when every other tour sells out... 
Out, back on the road, and I am ready to get the "Fucky out of Kentucky!" I have no need to re-visit Arkansas, Tennessee or Kentucky. Hopefully the kudzu will win and the entire area will get "Day of the Kudzu"'d... http://www.alabamatv.org/kudzu/
Looking at the KOA guide, we decided to hit Ohio and shoot for the Dayton area - a longer drive than we expected, but away from KY and closer to home... Going through Cincinatti, I could not get WKRP - where's my Venus Flytrap?
Another gas stop - you can't drive 500 miles without one...
265 miles
33.871 gallons
$76.85
2.269/gallon
7.82 mpg - at least a little better...
Made it to Dayton, got to the KOA - very nice, we think a contender for KOA of the Year. They have fabulous mini-golf, so we hit the links. They were covered with a lot of detritus from last night's storm, but we played on... In a keen act of foresight, we fought off potential malarial influences with lashings of Gin and Tonics... Marge beat me, again... She shot 47 on a 54 par, I shot 50. That's 18 holes.
We rewarded ourselves with Ice Cream Treats and headed back to our last night in this shit box. I will be glad to get home, and to dump this piece of shit unit.
4 comments:
glad to hear the trip's nearing its conclusion in god luvin' ohio...whaddaya expect from a state shaped like grandma's underpants?
Oh, dear. This is confirming my every Midwestern fear. Not even a beer, hunh, or is that just on Sunday?? Thank you for making this circuit for all of us. p.s. I have been reading religiously, but not always able to compose a publishable comment...
Another p.s. You better get back to work. From the New York Times letter section today:
To the Editor:
The spinach from Natural Selection Foods that has been implicated in the E. coli outbreak was produced to supply the organic foods industry, whose standards demand the use of supposedly safe natural fertilizers like sterilized cow manure. But the use of that manure — as opposed to the use of presumably less safe manmade fertilizers — could well be the source of the current outbreak.
In fact, from a fertilizing perspective, there are no chemical differences between the two fertilizers, but the sterilized manure has been implicated in far more disease outbreaks than manmade fertilizers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States and its British counterpart have both gathered statistics suggesting that there is a substantially greater likelihood of contracting E. coli-based and similar illnesses from organic produce than from conventionally grown produce.
As a consequence, any attempt to ameliorate disease risk from produce must investigate farming practices like those employed by organic farmers.
Elliot Entis
Waltham, Mass., Sept. 21, 2006
The writer is a co-founder and the chief executive of Aqua Bounty, a biotechnology company.
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