so, i've been dreaming closer to home. but not in the west. i've been all over the west/southwest. i will accept the northwest, but nothing lower than oregon and farther east than the washington/oregon/idaho border. except for yosemite. i will go to yosemite, but that is the only thing that i will look at in california.
that would be a great trip:
start in yosemite
drive up the oregon coast. stop off in portland just to check it out a little bit. end up in forks, washington. because there is no way i am going to get that close and not check it out.
(lupe, is that you?)
or, i could check out that block of middle states past new mexico, colorado, wyoming, and montana. you know, the dakotas, kansas, nebraska, oklahoma, indiana, illinois, ohio, iowa. those sorts of states. i drove through them once. so, so many amber waves of grain. i could drop in on the corn palace in iowa:
that entire facade is made out of corn. i know. i have seen it. i think that the corn palace should have been built closer to the kansas underground salt museum, where i would also visit. i wouldn't be opposed to stopping by mount rushmore while i'm in the area. i would want to eat a big old slice of apple pie on someone's porch while the national anthem wafted in from some unknown somewhere. and, in all seriousness, i would need to go to chicago. i've never been. a horrible oversight.
then i would round it all off by participating in a rebellious dance.
but i REALLY want to go here:
the. south.
i have been there a couple a times in my life. and a couple is just not enough. just look at the food they've got going on in this part of the country. the first time i went there, the first thing that i saw was a car with spinners with 5 inch blades coming out of them.
those whirring lines in the middle of that spinner are not whirring lines. they are whirring blades. and as soon as i saw that, i knew that the south was a worthwhile place to be. there are just too many things that i want to see to list, atlanta, the outer banks, plantations, anything and everything to do with gone with the wind, the great smokey mountains, maybe mardi gras...but may be not. i could list forever. i would want to come back changed, completely different saying things like, "y'all" and "might could" and "mmmmmmmhmmmmmmmm". i would want to know how to cook chitlins, fish and grits, georgia peach pie, grandma's homemade baked biscuits, hush puppies, barbecue, and deep fried anything. i would want to get cornrows, but would be too embarrassed. i would think i could rap, but really couldn't. and then i would need to go to washington dc. i haven't been there since i was 7, and that is just not cutting it.
i realize i've completely disregarded the great lakes states and new england. as soon as they get cooler, i dream about going there too. heh.
