Thursday, November 21, 2024

impressions: road trip

i have ALWAYS wanted to do a cross-country road trip, and i finally have! with my parents, as a kid, we did many almost cross-country trips: OC to vancouver, OC to nola, OC to yellowstone. but this fall, j and i actually drove from boston back to OC. that's almost as nearly cross-country as it gets! we spent about 8 days on the trip, but someday I'd really love to really be able to take my time with it.

some impressions of a few of the cities we passed thru:

pittsburg
people park on sidewalks / very low curbs
windy, narrow streets / hilly
feels very working class
smoking permitted indoors
lots of trees!
mostly two story houses, which are narrower than I'm used to seeing

columbus
a real college town

indianapolis
no charm :(

st louis
so many empty buildings
city itself is very empty

tulsa
will have to return!! lots of fun route 66 stuff here

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