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May 09, 2007
middle of nowhere, usa
We've been on the road since Monday, taking our time getting to Wisconsin to visit our friends on our convoluted trip home. All week I have been overtired and fighting an oncoming cold, falling asleep in the car during the hottest part of the afternoons and feeling sluggish in the evenings. Go over to Peter's if you want to hear anything interesting about our trip; I haven't got the energy for words right now. He's sitting next to me typing up a storm while I have nothing to say (not quite the normal state of affairs in this household).
Don't ask me where this place was; all I remember is the two for one margaritas were thick enough to eat with a fork and the decor was not entirely to my liking.
We spent a few hours in Nashville on Tuesday, marveling at the falseness of it all and taking pictures of tourists:
Yesterday and today we drove down a little highway through the middle of nowhere, hoping to find a thrift store or a Waffle House or something, instead passing dozens of wide-open, rotting trailers with people's belongings still in them, entirely boarded up downtowns, a vast expanse of flatness and bleak tracts of land given up to hellish gray subdivisions. And relentless sun. In Donovan Indiana (pop. 300) we found a building named after our friend Bob:
Tomorrow: Chicago, which we decided at the very last minute not to avoid after all, and then the rest of our trip will be spent in the company of good friends.
Posted by jodi at May 9, 2007 11:05 PM | categories: jet set
Comments
I'm pretty sure that the motto of the state of Tennessee is "Where Tacky Comes to Die".. its horrid isn't it?
Posted by: mouse at May 10, 2007 09:04 AM
How did you eat in the restaurant with the fishes on the wall? Weren't you frozen in terror?
:)
Posted by: Carrie at May 10, 2007 09:17 AM
Wow. I'm surprised you got that close to the fish...
Posted by: NWJR at May 10, 2007 10:36 AM
So now I know where to look to see more pictures of you LOL.
Have fun!! XO
Posted by: bonnie at May 10, 2007 01:45 PM
Jodi, hate me if like, but you been 'tagged', a game going on with the art bloggers. If you want to play you have to list 7 random facts/habits about you on your blog, list 7 art bloggers you whose blogs you read want to tag, and then go to their blogs to let them know you've tagged them. I don't normally do this but it's funny what you find out about others when you track back through the blogs.
Posted by: kylie at May 13, 2007 12:36 AM
Jodi, you been 'tagged'. Sorry if you hate this kind of thing but if you get into the mood it's kind of fun. The rules are: you have to list 7 random facts/habits about yourself on your blog, then list 7 art blogs you like to read, and then tell each of those people on their blog that they've been tagged. It's amazing what you find out about people when you track back through their blogs.
Posted by: kylie at May 13, 2007 01:11 AM
Sorry you got my tagged thing twice. Something's wrong with my computer and does silly things like that :)
Posted by: kylie at May 14, 2007 02:31 AM
I would totally be one of the tourists posing with Elvis, inviting mockery. :)
Posted by: alison at May 16, 2007 09:39 AM