update

[kaigou]

so I'm reviewing my list of chores:

1. do the damn dishes
2. badger the recruiter
3. put away clean laundry

and I get an email from my mother about my trip to Grand Forks, ND, with a few stopovers to see the world's biggest ball of twine, the world's largest talking metal cow, the world's largest van gogh easel, and the world's largest concrete prairie dog. She says, "would you take your sister with you, part of the way?"

I write back. "What do you mean? Like, take her as far as Chicago and leave her there?"

Mom's response: "Yep."

I told her, "if Klho makes her way home again, that means ya gotta keep her."

No response from Mom yet. I think she might be sulking.

Heh.

Comments

[habibti.livejournal.com]

What a rare thing to get one over the Mom. Congratulations. Children everywhere salute you. There will be a roadside attraction built for you in NoVa in remembrance of the occasion and others will flock to it, just like every other cheap, kitschy attraction that lines the roadsides of America.

Actually, on my roadtrip I avoided most roadside attractions and hit the national parks and monuments etc. But I consider it a good thing to give a roadtrip some thematic structure. Friends of mine drove from DC to Seattle (more of those people who never stay in DC) and the theme of their trip was roadkill. They photographed every bit of roadkill they came across and I got the pleasure of seeing it when I visited. It was bizarre (and very funny, I hate to admit) but it's a great way of making an experience your own.

[solitude1056.livejournal.com]

I am doing architecture, geology, and kitsch. Figure if I did all architecture of the Important Historic Kind, I'd burn out by Michigan, and who'd want that to happen? Besides, in a hundred years, just maybe someone will recognize the value of such oddities as Hole In The Wall House or the gas station carved into solid rock or the giant concrete prairie dog. Too bad I'm going to miss the fifty-foot long restaurant shaped like a fish, though. That would be a cool place to stop for lunch, just for the story-telling aspect.

Roadkill, though. Uh. Hm. I think I'll stick with roadsigns.