On the road again...

[viscousmemories]

I'm leaving early tomorrow morning to make the long drive to Michigan (about 1200 miles), and I probably won't have broadband Internet access where I'll be staying while I'm there.

So if I'm not around much for the next 10 days or so, that'd be why. :wave:

[Ex-zombie]

Have a safe trip, vm. Hurry back!

Who is going to tease me by not telling their jokes like you do? :wink:

[Lauri D]

Hope you guys have a fun road trip, Tom! :wave:

[viscousmemories]

Thanks, you two. :)

[LadyShea]

Have a safe and fun trip VM.

[viscousmemories]

Thanks, Brandi. :wave:

[maddog]

au revoir! bon voyage!

#89

[SharonDee]

Michigan? I'm sorry. :(

Have a good trip and come back to us all in one piece!
:kiss:

[viscousmemories]

Thanks you guys. :)

Don't feel bad for me, SharonDee. I'm looking forward to seeing my family for the first time in a few years. Plus I have two new nephews and a grand-niece to meet. :)

[SharonDee]

I'm looking forward to seeing my family for the first time in a few years. Plus I have two new nephews and a grand-niece to meet. :)
Oh well, that's different. :yup:

Pardon my initial reaction. Hubster lived in Michigan before he moved down here and met me, so I only have his stories to go by.

Cuddle some babies for me! :curlbaby:

[godfry n. glad]

Yo, Tom... Have a great time. Eat too much. Laugh a lot.

Be safe.

godfry

[viscousmemories]

Okay I'll cuddle babies Sharon. :)

Thanks, godfry. :)

[godfry n. glad]

And Sharon?

Hubba on the new avatar.

godfry

[pescifish]

I hope the drive is safe and quick, if not an enjoyable part of the adventure. Have a good time with your family!

[viscousmemories]

Thanks pesci, I hope it's safe and quick too. :yup:

[Brimshack]

Where are you going?

I don't talk to midwesterners. Harrumph!!!

[viscousmemories]

It's okay, I'm not a midwesterner. I'm from Ann Arbor!

[Roland98]

Thanks you guys. :)

Don't feel bad for me, SharonDee. I'm looking forward to seeing my family for the first time in a few years. Plus I have two new nephews and a grand-niece to meet. :)

Ahem.

/me is insulted.



(And Ann Arborites are too midwesterners, even though you're all uppity and think you're some kind of east coast transfers or something).

[viscousmemories]

Ahem.

* Roland98 is insulted.
Awww... don't be insulted. Meeting you is gonna be the best part by far, I just didn't know if you were comfortable admitting such a lowering of your normal standards. :)

(And Ann Arborites are too midwesterners, even though you're all uppity and think you're some kind of east coast transfers or something).
I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about.

[livius drusus]

Have a safe trip as well as a blast, please. :byecry:

[viscousmemories]

Greetings from Mt. Vernon, Illinois. :wave:

[JoeP]

I'm leaving early tomorrow morning to make the long drive to Michigan (about 1200 miles), and I probably won't have broadband Internet access where I'll be staying while I'm there.

So if I'm not around much for the next 10 days or so, that'd be why. :wave:
No broadband internet access? How will you cope? Oh wait, how do I cope? :( :cry: :D

Hope you have a great time Tom, especially with your family - and - what's this I see? With Roland? Jealous.

:byecry:

Update: wanna map. One of those ones with a big fat red line showing how far you've got. I'm thinking Illinois is practically Michigan already. 'Member some of us aren't quite as familiar with you-ess-ay geography. Wtf is Ann Arbor anyway? And also, Ro, where are you? Aren't you in some tiny little town in Ohio, or have you moved from there?

joe

[livius drusus]

Thanks to the nice folks at National Atlas, Expedia and PSP, I have compiled for your information not one, not two, but three maps with a big fat red line.

First, the big picture. They're doing the blue leg today, but probably not in a straight line. They might go through Chicago or something weird like that depending on whether they listen to their GPS.

http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/Maps/bigpicture.jpg

This is the route they took yesterday:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/Maps/dallas.jpg

This is what's left:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/images/Maps/mtvernon.jpg

[godfry n. glad]

Are we sure he's not making a run for the Canadian border?

godfry

[Roland98]

Joe,

If you look at the 3rd map liv supplied, follow the southern-going highway (it's not labeled in that portion, but it's US-23) from Ann Arbor due south (well, and then a slight jog west via I-475) to Toledo, which is where I live. It's about an hour south of AA, which is where I work. If you then look southward from Toledo on the map down I-75, you'll see a little town called Findlay, which is where I grew up (this is the small, rural town; actually, I grew up in the country outside of Findlay, so it's even more rural than the "city proper" of Findlay is).

PS--while we have the maps, I will be moving to Iowa City, Iowa next month. So if you start at Toledo, and basically run a line due west to about 50 miles into Iowa, that's where I'll be. Both Toledo and Iowa City are right on US-80, so at least it's an easy drive.

[JoeP]

Liv! I am bowled over with joy! Those maps are just exactly what I wanted! Excuse me while I change my shorts.

It all suddenly makes sense.

[JoeP]

Are we sure he's not making a run for the Canadian border?

godfry
Hmm, I think you're right, and stormwatch agrees ... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/SecretCode/8c52f460.jpg

[JoeP]

Joe,

If you look at the 3rd map liv supplied, follow the southern-going highway (it's not labeled in that portion, but it's US-23) from Ann Arbor due south (well, and then a slight jog west via I-475) to Toledo, which is where I live. It's about an hour south of AA, which is where I work. If you then look southward from Toledo on the map down I-75, you'll see a little town called Findlay, which is where I grew up (this is the small, rural town; actually, I grew up in the country outside of Findlay, so it's even more rural than the "city proper" of Findlay is).

PS--while we have the maps, I will be moving to Iowa City, Iowa next month. So if you start at Toledo, and basically run a line due west to about 50 miles into Iowa, that's where I'll be. Both Toledo and Iowa City are right on US-80, so at least it's an easy drive.
Thanks Roland ...
OK, found Toledo, found Findlay, found Iowa City (on another map).

Don't you like staying in one place? :eyebrow:

I can't see how AA could be 'midwest' but Iowa surely is. Is that what you want? :eyebrow2:

[Dingfod]

Back when the unexploited frontier was Illinois, Ohio was definitively mid-West, thus the reason the region was nicknamed Midwest. Today, in the Lower 48, you cannot get much more midwest than Iowa, Nebraska or Kansas.

[Roland98]

Thanks Roland ...
OK, found Toledo, found Findlay, found Iowa City (on another map).

Don't you like staying in one place? :eyebrow:

I've hardly lived anywhere! :) I did leave out a jaunt to Connecticut for college. But most people I know have moved way more than I have. Like, for instance, every other person in this thread, I think. :)

I can't see how AA could be 'midwest' but Iowa surely is. Is that what you want? :eyebrow2:

Eh. I'm not picky. :) And warren already stole my thunder and explained the whole history of the term "midwest."

[pescifish]

But most people I know have moved way more than I have. Like, for instance, every other person in this thread, I think.
Yeah, maybe not. I haven't lived more than 40 miles from my childhood home my whole life (which is almost 20 years longer than yours already, I think). Moved 4 times total.

vm, I'm glad you guys made it so quickly and thanks for giving us the "safe arrival" post. Have a great time!

[beyelzu]

vm,

hope you have fun.

[godfry n. glad]

Thanks Roland ...
OK, found Toledo, found Findlay, found Iowa City (on another map).

Don't you like staying in one place? :eyebrow:

I've hardly lived anywhere! :) I did leave out a jaunt to Connecticut for college. But most people I know have moved way more than I have. Like, for instance, every other person in this thread, I think. :)



Not me. I moved to big city Portland from eastern Oregon with my family, at age 5. I had lived 1.5 years as a toddler in northern Idaho (near Kellogg), and since, as an adult, I have lived 2 weeks in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and 2.5 months in Fairbanks, Alaska, and came back to Portland. That was the duration of one tumultuous summer (1973). I've been here most of 45 years now, otherwise.

A stick in the mud am I. It's easy to do in these parts.

godfry

yo, joe...love the stormwatch. :roflmao:

[Dingfod]

I've moved 40 times (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/journal.php?do=view&journalid=36&perpage=10&page=#12) in my 49 years of life. I ought to be pretty good at it by now. It could also explain some of my problems with socializing and my lack of friends.

[godfry n. glad]

Notice that he sent word once he set foot in a blue state.

Are they monitoring the border at Windsor?

He's hoofin' it for Horton's, eh...he's hot for Timbits!

Who could blame him, eh?

At times like these?

godfry

[viscousmemories]

Y'all are crazy. We're safe in A2 now. I'm actually using my laptop on the freely available wireless connection at the deli/cafe I used to work at (back before wireless existed).

Ann Arbor has CHANGED, man. In just 2.5 years since I was here last about 1/3 of the businesses in this area are under new ownership, and they built a 10 story building on the corner! It's weird. Its' weird also to be back in a college town... so many utes everywhere...

Liv has volunteered to map the final leg of our journey for me as soon as I write it up for her, so stay tuned for more excitement to come! :D

[Brimshack]

Ahem.

* Roland98 is insulted.
Awww... don't be insulted. Meeting you is gonna be the best part by far, I just didn't know if you were comfortable admitting such a lowering of your normal standards. :)

(And Ann Arborites are too midwesterners, even though you're all uppity and think you're some kind of east coast transfers or something).
I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about.

Can someone from a real state, please tell me what they are saying? When these mid-people post stuff, it's just like a blue screen to me.

[livius drusus]

They said they're going to have a blast getting together to talk shit about you. But that's only if Roland doesn't get around to hoisting the effigy or if vm forgets to bring the lighter fluid.

[Roland98]

They said they're going to have a blast getting together to talk shit about you. But that's only if Roland doesn't get around to hoisting the effigy or if vm forgets to bring the lighter fluid.

Brim is like his own effigy. He's like a caricature of himself. Nevertheless, he was mercilessly mocked and figuratively flagellated over a dinner of way too much Lebanese food and good conversation.

[Brimshack]

They said they're going to have a blast getting together to talk shit about you. But that's only if Roland doesn't get around to hoisting the effigy or if vm forgets to bring the lighter fluid.

They let people in those states have matches and lighter fluid? Surely, you jest!

[Roland98]

They said they're going to have a blast getting together to talk shit about you. But that's only if Roland doesn't get around to hoisting the effigy or if vm forgets to bring the lighter fluid.

They let people in those states have matches and lighter fluid? Surely, you jest!

Who needs lighter fluid when you have moonshine?

[Brimshack]

Guess that's what they mean by "lit up" huh?

(And no, I haven't sudenly developed the ability to read flatlandrish; a student explained it to me.)

[JoeP]

Y'all are crazy. We're safe in A2 now. I'm actually using my laptop on the freely available wireless connection at the deli/cafe I used to work at (back before wireless existed).

Ann Arbor has CHANGED, man. In just 2.5 years since I was here last about 1/3 of the businesses in this area are under new ownership, and they built a 10 story building on the corner! It's weird. Its' weird also to be back in a college town... so many utes everywhere...

Liv has volunteered to map the final leg of our journey for me as soon as I write it up for her, so stay tuned for more excitement to come! :D
I'm tuned. I'm hot and sweaty (although that's more to do with the weather :D ). When's your next move and when will the next installment be? :popcorn: