Postcard from America
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matociquala and stillsostrange are most excellent people.
2. So arematociquala's roommate Alisa and their friend Jeff.
3. They have variously between them taken me climbing outside (twice), inside (once), to a goth club, to a beach, caving, some strange river sport called tubing, and kayaking. I begin to think they are attempting to kill me off.
4. They are still most excellent people, though.
5. Also. America is strange.
matociquala and stillsostrange are most excellent people.2. So are
matociquala's roommate Alisa and their friend Jeff.3. They have variously between them taken me climbing outside (twice), inside (once), to a goth club, to a beach, caving, some strange river sport called tubing, and kayaking. I begin to think they are attempting to kill me off.
4. They are still most excellent people, though.
5. Also. America is strange.
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Date: 2010-05-31 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-01 01:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-01 03:51 am (UTC)NEVER come out to California. Unless it's to go directly to a National or State park. Sometimes it seems like NEW (ugly) buildings and LOTS of cars are all we have out here. :)
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Date: 2010-06-02 08:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-01 12:36 am (UTC)In the end I decided it was because it's almost familiar (including the bits from TV shows) but just wrong enough that your brain keeps saying things are not normal -- whereas when you go somewhere more unfamiliar you stop being surprised by things nearly being the same and settle in to them being different.
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Date: 2010-06-01 01:00 am (UTC)I'm growing homesick for my broken-down old buildings and pathways wide enough to stand on. :P
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Date: 2010-06-01 05:22 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-06-01 03:40 am (UTC)Parts of America will resonate with more familiarity than this -- for example, Portland, Oregon, a very walkable city. Connecticut is too much a part of the Greater New York Metropolitan Area, which stretches from Boston to Washington, DC. And I'm only partly exaggerating. I grew up in the Mid-Hudson Valley, lived in New Haven, Baton Rouge (Louisiana), Stillwater (Oklahoma), Winston-Salem (North Carolina), and the Metro DC area -- and none of them were exactly pedestrian-oriented, although Stillwater and Baton Rouge had large parts of their urban areas dedicated to large State University campuses.
But yes, the cars -- and the driving mentality! Irish drivers are much nicer. I was pleasantly surprised.
And nothing old, until you find the right cities. The Anasazi ruins come to mind. As Eddie Izzard once pointed out, anything older than 50 years is considered "historic" in this country. ("No, surely not! No one was alive then!")
I'd love to see America through your eyes.
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Date: 2010-06-02 08:14 pm (UTC)Museums are great. Fantastic. Fabulous. Can we just concentrate the museums in one easily walkable spot now, please?
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Date: 2010-06-03 12:46 am (UTC)I think New York City is very concentrated, which makes it overwhelming.
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Date: 2010-06-03 07:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-01 03:52 am (UTC)Say hello to the Met for me. :)
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Date: 2010-06-02 08:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-03 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-04 02:29 pm (UTC)I think today is sitting in a pub or cafe and Not Going Anywhere until my bus comes to take me to the airport. :P