Postcard from America

[hawkwing_lb]

1. 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.

Comments

[katallen.livejournal.com]

On 5. Yes...

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.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Cars. I am weirded out by the amount and extent of car-ness. It looks almost normal. Nice leafy green trees and hills - but nothing old, and so very little set up for pedestrians.

I'm growing homesick for my broken-down old buildings and pathways wide enough to stand on. :P

[katallen.livejournal.com]

The width of the roads... like being in a game of Frogger to cross. The scale of car-space to people space is just, wrong. :D

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yes. Cars here have too much space.