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A hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles, a hundred miles...
I wonder why that particular earworm always invade my head when I'm driving a long ways. Never fails. I'll hum that song even with the radio blasting.
The drive today was fabulous. Not too much traffic, cops in good mood, and great weather. The GLow Mobile happily sped toward DC, stopping a couple of times for refreshments. The strangest sight was this place that had a thousand billboards advertising it for miles and miles: South of the Border. It was dark when I saw it, lit up like a fair, a giant sombrero right in the middle, like a Ferris Wheel, with firework stalls in the back. I pulled in to get gas and there were only two or three other cars there; the whole place was EMPTY. It was the eeriest thing, standing there filling up my car in this bright, BRIGHT place with no one around.
I'm going to call Fayetteville (or half an hour outside it) the Billboard City from now on. If you ever drive here, you'll see what I mean. Both sides of the highway have billboards thirty feet high, facing both directions, and after miles of trees and sky, it's really very Vegas-like, even down to the ads that scream out 24-hour topless cafes (Cafes?! As in, order a latte from the EEE-cup waitress? Do they offer free Internet? Heh).
Fayetteville is also where Fort Bragg is, as well as some Civil War historical battlefields and museums, so I'm quite tempted to dawdle here for a few hours before resuming my drive to DC. It'd be great research for Viking Dude, don't you think? ;-) A time traveler like him should know a lot about Civil War facts.... As you know, Fort Bragg is home of the Airborne and Special Ops. Corp. I feel I should at least do a drive by ;-). Jed and Killian would approve.
'Kay, Part One ends here. Oh, one more thing. Best billboard sign ever: EXIT HERE (you can get) BRASSIERES TO CHANDELIERS. I don't know why that struck my funny bone. I had coffee all over my steering wheel. Truly, laughing like that while driving alone isn't normal.
REMINDER: You can still ask questions about VHERS in the post, So Many Chores, below.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Road to RWA Part One
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3 comments:
South of the Border always was a funny one, never did see many people stop there at night while I lived in the Carolinas. Drive gets boring from there on out, well AFTER you get past Bragg (although Bragg is not quite on 95 but it could be worth the detour). BTW you see my ex please deflate all of his tires. Oh and bring me one of them SF hotties. Pretty please??
I'll deflate your ex's tires--which one is he? I'll even smash his face in for you ;-/, call him a schmuck for the way he treated you. You see how much I love you? And no, not so much that I'd bring you one of the SF hotties WHEN I'm USING THEM ALL. Bwahahahaha.
He's the one with the big truck and the foul mouth, lol.
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