keeping with the travelogue musings here, some neighborhood buds (20s) recently returned from their spring road trip (they put up aboot 7,000 miles last fall, first heading down south to check out the caves, then heading up north to the badlands. a new truck can do that to ya). this time, spokan was the halfway point, aboot 9,000 miles in all.
they were mesmerized by their potato experience. heading into Idaho (aboot 14 times the size of Connecticut), they hit that stretch of road running
two, tree hundreds of miles with nothing but spud fields as far as the eye can see, and learned that, universally, everyone was quite
happy aboot their role in growing them, ie 'i grow food to feed the world!,' 'i fix the machines that grow the food to feed the world!,' 'i serve lunch to the folks who grow the food to feed the world!,' and so on, and so on, and over and over again.
shiny, happy people, and quite the opposite of the crankfest seemingly in the air around our coastal northeast big cities lately.
wyoming is way cool, too. i bought a sweet pair of boots in laramie a few years back. now, what you don't hear much of out that way, is 24/7 nonstop talk aboot restaurants, che che beer, or coffee beans blessed by the dalai lama. refreshing, as well as good advice when giving local travel tips, cuz them folks put up a drive of an hour or two much like our 10-20 minute trip to the super.
and oh, the stocked beer for the road trip crew was pbr.
widely available.
(and yes, they're right aboot 'feeding the world.' something like 13,500,000,000 pounds per year)
i would highly rec our wyo pals to buzz down to nl/mystic/stonington
harbors, or over to newport
harbor, or up to bahston
harbor, since there ain't much of that out their way. the most complex machine ever made is a daily job for groton folks, and iffn you listen to thems who do it, they're amped aboot that. clydes mill over there is pretty cool, too.
