Posted: 8/17/2009 5:47 PM
Post subject: Road Trip
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alden
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I'm going on a road trip across the USA from August 22nd to September 11th! I was thinking it might be fun to meet up with some of you if time permits. You can meet me, my fiancee and two dogs. I will buy you a coffee or a beer and perhaps we can talk about the absurdity of our modern internet-enabled culture. Tentatively I will be going on or around I-40 from Southern California to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, and then to Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois (Chicago), possibly Wisconsin (Madison), then back to Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. If you're interested, send me a PM... Otherwise, I'd also appreciate if anyone has any suggestions for things to visit. Thanks, and hope to see you soon! (Sorry, no Finland this year.)
I make a comic with no image files and you should read it. While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -Eugene Debs
Posted: 8/17/2009 9:25 PM
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Zurreco
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Location: Seattle, WA
If you want to travel west from the 40 a bit, hit me up on the San Diego coastline.
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Posted: 8/17/2009 10:00 PM
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Sticky
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Location: Minnesota
I will totally meet your for coffee or something in Nebraska. Preferably north-eastern Nebraska ;D
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Posted: 8/17/2009 11:48 PM
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Captain_Forehead
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Location: Utah
I live in Utah, so I suggest you go to a county called Moab, that place has so many arches, it's incredible! It's in the west side of Utah. I don't know if I can be more specific.
Posted: 8/18/2009 12:16 AM
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BigBoct
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I'm up in Ohio; if you enjoy thrill rides, I'd highly advise you to try and get to Cedar Point, on the Lake Erie shoreline. Awesome stuff there.
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Posted: 8/18/2009 12:33 AM
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adelikat
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Skipping Florida eh? Fine then!
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Posted: 8/18/2009 1:13 AM
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I am near Sacramento, so I don't think I'm between you and Arizona...
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Posted: 8/18/2009 1:42 AM
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RT-55J
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Location: WA State, USA
So you're going nowhere near Washington? *sigh* Well, it's probably not much of a loss, considering the fact I despise the smell of coffee.
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Posted: 8/18/2009 2:12 AM
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Captain_Forehead
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Solon wrote:
I'm up in Ohio; if you enjoy thrill rides, I'd highly advise you to try and get to Cedar Point
I've been to Cedar Point, it is extremely fun.
Posted: 8/18/2009 3:55 AM
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Ferret_Warlord
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Joined: 10/27/2004
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Location: Making an escape
Oh sure, go on this road trip right after I move out of Utah. D:
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Posted: 8/18/2009 4:40 AM
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OmnipotentEntity
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adelikat wrote:
Skipping Florida eh? Fine then!
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Posted: 8/18/2009 1:00 PM
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Captain_Forehead
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Location: Utah
Ferret Warlord wrote:
Oh sure, go on this road trip right after I move out of Utah. D:
Unless your going somewhere else where he's going, or was that not the point?
Posted: 8/18/2009 3:39 PM
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alden
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Well, it sounds like we chose a route that perfectly misses all forum members, except possibly Sticky :) Thanks for the suggestions so far though...
I make a comic with no image files and you should read it. While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -Eugene Debs
Posted: 8/26/2009 9:43 PM
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alden
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So I'm killing time waiting in a car in Amarillo TX and I thought I'd share an x-files story. Yesterday we saw a post card and decided to go to Bandalero (sp?) park in New Mexico where they have old cliff dwellings. It's way the hell up in the mountains and by the time we got there there was only an hour left to see it, which was just enough time to do a quick loop. The ruins were totally awesome. Unfortunately we couldn't take our dogs so on the way out we looked for somewhere to take them on a little stroll and watch the sun set. I spotted a dirt road going up a hill so we parked at the bottom and hike maybe 100 ft up the hill where we found a barb wire fence and a gate with a big sign saying No Tresspassing and also, mysteriously, Danger: Fragment Hazard. We couldn't quite see the sun set from here and there was a >1 foot gap under the gate so we went ahead through and sat for a spell. I was a bit paranoid as usual and especially so when we spotted an orange jeep go by our car, slow down and then turn around. As we left we also saw something called LANL TECH CENTER. I though Lanl was a Native American name or something. Well, LANL means Los Alamos National Laboratory, and when I looked up "fragment hazard los alamos" on google it came up with a bunch of pages about how they tested depleted uranium weapons there! I was pretty panicked but Mariah pointed out that we were only there a bit, didn't go in and besides the government claims DU is safe for our troops so what the hell. Still I felt a little like we'd stumbled across some secret and they were tracing our licence plates and credit card purchases and lord knows what. Oh well, we went to bed in our hotel. The next morning I opened the curtains and was shocked to find our windows had been covered by white plastic! My mind instantly flashed again the the X-Files, like we were being decontaminated or something. Fortunately I realized pretty quickly that the white plastic had a paint brush emblem on it and a trip outside confirmed that they were indeed repainting the hotel that morning. I felt a little silly :) Hope to post more soon!
I make a comic with no image files and you should read it. While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -Eugene Debs
Posted: 8/26/2009 10:02 PM
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Captain_Forehead
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Location: Utah
Thanks for sharing the secret weapons on this site. :P I should travel to New Mexico and find out what they're up to...>_> <_<
Posted: 8/27/2009 2:57 AM
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Rick
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Location: Maine
I'm in Maine. If you said you were going there, I'd be all "What the fuck?!"
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Posted: 8/27/2009 3:01 AM
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errror1
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Location: Houston
On your way back make sure you pick up some DU, that stuffs hard to get. When the FBI shows up tell them your dogs dug it up. Texas is too big I'm 500 miles from I-40 at it's closest