...I do not find myself making a blog post about travelling across the country every day. Sorry I know you really enjoyed that first post :D.
The other day while driving in the car, I took advantage of the pleasant scenery and the several hours of uneventful traversing by making notes about a potential plot line for a story. I added notes about the characters, changed a few names and wrotelittle memos to myself about improvements. I really think that if anyone else were to read these notes that they would be completely lost and confused. I used some bazaare references that I knew that I would understand, bit may not make sense to anyone else. This could be an advantage for me though. This could potentially a novel to be developed. I never know how far I can take my creativity and I may surprise myself by actually finishing it! I probably won't finish it but here's to hoping. Cheers!
We are staying in Rapid City, South Dakota for a couple of days now and I am really liking the town. There are many Native American-style shops and restaraunts. I bought a nice buffalo nickel necklace at this place called the Sioux Trading Post. They had hundreds of fascinating knick-knacks like this insanely beautiful jewelry and amazing skin paintings.
On our way here we droce through the badlands. They were pretty badass. There were giant hills and cliffs made out of what looked like sandstone. We got some pretty good pictures of them. It was a refreshing change to see rolling hills and cliffs along the side of the road instead of flat farms with the occasional bale of hay and unnecessary amount of billboards for tourist attractions like the Corn Palace ane Senore Wiener's restaraunt.
I will write more about Mt. Rushmore later. The lights are out in the room and I feel my eyes bugging out of their sockeys. Great mental picture I know.
It seems, that you cupcakes are becoming more of imaginary friends than readers. But you still get shout outs! I hope you had a great Fourth of July!
Au revoir!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Truckin': Day 1
Today at 6:30 A.M. me family and I left our home and headed for Illinois.
Our bags were packed and we were ready for our vacation farther west.
My dad made write the time; number of miles on the car; toll, gas, and meal prices; and restaraunts.
I can't really talk about everything in detail (early morning tomorrow).
It was quiet in our car for most of the morning. My mom and my brother slept. I mostly listened to my iPod and stared out the window at the highway wizzing by (I listened to about 6 episodes of Smartmouths).
While looking out of the window, I noticed several peculiar things. I first observed road signs with whimsically amusing names of towns. I then noticed a boat at a gas station that had a very large innertube that had the name "Big Bertha" on which I photographed with my phone. The next was extremely disturbing and made me feel uncomfortable. Obviously there were many large tanker trucks on the turnpikes we were driving on. However, one truck in particular had crude and offensive prases painted on the back by its driver (I assume by the driver). The phrases include things like "flash me," and "show me your hooters." My mom shook her head and the pervert truck driver made a face that I don't really know how to describe. But it was very disturbing.
At one of the rest stops we went to, there were these sections called "Travel Emporium.:" These sections were hardly emporiums. They had things like brochures, sunglasses, lighters, cooling cups, and...lamps with tigers and bears' faces on them? I thought that was completely useless to travellers. How can u imagine a person driving down the parkway, forgetting their tiger lamp and rushing to exit and go to the Travel Emporium! You can see how rediculous it is.
Well, School of Rock just came on TV so, you know, I have to go watch it.
I can't promise a post everyday on our trip but I hope to update a lot!
See ya later, you cupcakes!
Our bags were packed and we were ready for our vacation farther west.
My dad made write the time; number of miles on the car; toll, gas, and meal prices; and restaraunts.
I can't really talk about everything in detail (early morning tomorrow).
It was quiet in our car for most of the morning. My mom and my brother slept. I mostly listened to my iPod and stared out the window at the highway wizzing by (I listened to about 6 episodes of Smartmouths).
While looking out of the window, I noticed several peculiar things. I first observed road signs with whimsically amusing names of towns. I then noticed a boat at a gas station that had a very large innertube that had the name "Big Bertha" on which I photographed with my phone. The next was extremely disturbing and made me feel uncomfortable. Obviously there were many large tanker trucks on the turnpikes we were driving on. However, one truck in particular had crude and offensive prases painted on the back by its driver (I assume by the driver). The phrases include things like "flash me," and "show me your hooters." My mom shook her head and the pervert truck driver made a face that I don't really know how to describe. But it was very disturbing.
At one of the rest stops we went to, there were these sections called "Travel Emporium.:" These sections were hardly emporiums. They had things like brochures, sunglasses, lighters, cooling cups, and...lamps with tigers and bears' faces on them? I thought that was completely useless to travellers. How can u imagine a person driving down the parkway, forgetting their tiger lamp and rushing to exit and go to the Travel Emporium! You can see how rediculous it is.
Well, School of Rock just came on TV so, you know, I have to go watch it.
I can't promise a post everyday on our trip but I hope to update a lot!
See ya later, you cupcakes!
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