I’m in Austin now. Drive wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I stayed the night in Memphis.
Here’s a few quick notes about the trip:
- Kentucky, while beautiful with forests and rock formations, is a state that will not end.
- I was surprised by the number of Christian-message related billboards.
- I was also surprised by the number of “XXX Adult Store – 24 Hours” billboards as well.
- Memphis is so hot and humid I’m sure it resides within Satan’s scrotum.
- I stopped in Hope, Arkansas, the birthplace of President Clinton, to use the toilet. I now consider myself a political activist.
I’m tired and I’m going to bed.
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You went through Kansas?!? Or did you mean Arkansas? I otherwise don’t see how you could have hit Hope and also spend much time in Kansas on the same trip without driving in circles.
And yes, by the way, Arkansas is absolutely gorgeous isn’t it? Little Rock is the pits, but get out of range of that and it’s breathtakingly beautiful, especially in the western part of the state in that run from Memphis to the Texas border.
Oops. Kentucky. Not Kansas. Corrected the post.
Mike Huckabee is also from Hope. Since Hope is a relatively small city, and Huckabee and Clinton are both Southern Baptists, I’ve idly wondered if they both went to the same church, but quick googling fails to confirm or deny this.
You know, there’s nothing like driving across the country, from a place like Detroit to Austin, or from coast to coast. You get a perspective on just how big the country is, for one thing.
Wow – if you went through Kentucky from Detroit to Memphis, you did do a lot of traveling through my home state. (I’ll assume you entered the state at Cincinnati and then traveled I-71 to Louisville and then I-65 to Nashville TN.)
I’ll agree with Dean about traveling cross country. But Kentucky isn’t even close to being the "never ending" trip. Crossing Kansas from east to west has it beat by about 250 miles. Florida, from the Georgia state line to Key West, is another one. But the grand daddy of them all is going across Texas from Beaumont to El Paso. That’s not a trip, that’s a career.
Here’s a fun fact: The distance from Beaumont Texas to El Paso Texas is *longer* than the distance from El Paso Texas to Los Angeles California.
Try driving all the way across Montana some time. Ye Gods that’s a wide state. Also very beautiful though; I understand now why they call it "big sky country," because that’s damn well what it is. But I have no way of explaining it unless you’ve seen it yourself. %-)
Utah was the weirdest state to drive across in my experience. A wasteland, then Salt Lake City, then a wasteland again.
Dave,
must agree re: Utah. when i was visiting there there were stretches (on a major highway!) where 20-30 minutes would go by where i was the only car I could see in front or behind me, and there were no other signs of human civilization beyond the existence of the road i was driving on.
Good luck, Kevin!
Ron Coleman’s last blog post..Right on
I stopped in Hope, Arkansas, the birthplace of President Clinton, to use the toilet. I now consider myself a political activist.
That made me laugh.
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