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 Posted: 10/03/06 - 17:01 Post subject: Things we did on our trip (Besides that).
Sorry no pictures (for now). LC has the digital camera, but I've got the computer and devices to load the pictures on it. Random observations from the travels and travails. Just if you need a break, or hopefully a laugh.
Indiana.
1) South Bend has the College Football Hall of Fame. Elkhart has the RV/Mobile Home Hall of Fame. You take what you can get, I guess.
2) On the way back, I ran over a squirrel. I had no choice - traffic was thick and heavy, so braking, stopping, and swerving were all non-options. I got the front tires past the guy but not the back ones. My question, though - WTH IS A SQUIRREL RUNNING AROUND ON THE INTERSTATE FOR?!
Ohio.
1) It's fun to finally fill the Jeep for less than $40.
2) Sandusky County has the fubbiest name for a street I've come across. In part because this had to have been named after someone... Fangboner Road (it crosses the Turnpike).
New York.
NY is the Nebraska of the East in that it takes forever and a day to cross it. They also make you pay the most for gas, even more than Masachusetts. But you get between Buffalo and Albany, and it's got some great scenery.
Massachusetts.
When you're on a highway that is two different routes, and they split, you don't keep right. Or stay left. Or turn right. You bear left or you bear right. While the Turnpike* is nice, and has a charming simple logo, avoid it and take SR 7.
* Let it be said here that of all the states with toll hghways, all let you take a ticket when you get on, and pay only when you get off. Except Illinois, where you have to dig out money every ten miles or so. Bastages - and then they wonder why traffic here is so screwed up.
Maine.
1) I briefly mentioned in the weather how we drove through or around a tornado. Those aren't just supposed to happen there.
2) Motivating through Shame, Maine style. We passed a gas station with the obligatory bad marque sign by the road "HEINEKEN $4.99 12?PK"? Nope. "2 HOTDOGS $1.50"? Wrong again. Try:
BAD CHECKS
ANNEMARIE JOHNSON
JACK TAYLOR
SUE BARNETT
3) We passed a senior center in a small town that was having some sort of community fund-raiser. We noticed this because we saw a couple of the center's regulars being put into a cage in a trailer on the front lawn that had a sign with "JAIL" on it. That, or we found the 60 Minutes Nursing Home we don't want our son to put us in,
4) When I left LC, I was nearly out of the state when I passed an event - whole line of cars, trucks, etc., going into an open field. But it was the sign that caught my attention. I committed several traffic violations, if not a couple of felonies driving back and forth to make sure I was reading it right. I was - "HILLBILLY FEST."
Oh, we're going to like it here just fine. 
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 17:18 Post subject:
Fangboner road. 
Hillbilly Fest. 
That Jack Taylor really gets around. 
sounds like a fun trip.
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 17:23 Post subject:
I'll have to stop on my way to Skowhegan one of these days.
PS: Buying gas on the NYS Thruway is a sure way of gettting Fangboned. Best thing would have been to get off and drive route US 20 for a while. Anyway, now that you're in the neighborhood I hope you can visit NYS. (its not all Manhattan)
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 19:41 Post subject:
  (close as I could get to a squirrel 
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 19:46 Post subject:
| JACKED UP wrote: | Fangboner road.
Hillbilly Fest.
That Jack Taylor really gets around.
sounds like a fun trip. |
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 19:53 Post subject:
sounds fun.
kinda.
good to hear from you.
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 19:54 Post subject:
Do you still do that, at your age 
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gretriever
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 20:04 Post subject:
| Cappy wrote: | | Do you still do that, at your age |
Yup. And still Wisconsin style.
Trust me, you don't want to know about Nebraska style. 
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 20:11 Post subject:
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JUJR
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Posted: 10/03/06 - 22:03 Post subject:
| gretriever wrote: | | Cappy wrote: | | Do you still do that, at your age |
Yup. And still Wisconsin style.
Trust me, you don't want to know about Nebraska style. |
 
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Library Chick
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Posted: 10/04/06 - 08:41 Post subject:
| andydp wrote: | I'll have to stop on my way to Skowhegan one of these days.
PS: Buying gas on the NYS Thruway is a sure way of gettting Fangboned. Best thing would have been to get off and drive route US 20 for a while. Anyway, now that you're in the neighborhood I hope you can visit NYS. (its not all Manhattan) |
Actually I think the jail in front of the Senior Citizens home was in Skowhegan.
I love driving through NYS. About 10 years ago we drove across on US 20 and loved it.
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Posted: 10/04/06 - 09:01 Post subject: Fangboner Road...
I've been on Fangboner Rd. in Fremont, OH for business. This was me the first time I drove there
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