Athos and I have been traveling of late. He's teaching a class at an industry conference, one which is being held rather conveniently in my hometown. His old stomping grounds are not far away, at the other end of the turnpike, so rather than him flying in for three days of the conference, we loaded ourselves into the car and are driving there.
Observation: Why is it that the more toll-road miles a state has, the worse its rest stop facilities are?
So far, we've encountered:
- A motorcycle "trike" with a wheelchair strapped upright to the back. (And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the WIN of the day!)
- A hearse with a bicycle on the roof. (WTF?)
- The nearly-obligatory wreck. We didn't see it happen (thank gods!), but we got to see the before-cleanup aftermath. Two or 3 highway patrol cars, one of the big mucking rigs they use to drag semis around, a fire truck and an ambulance. This one was going to take awhile to un-SNAFU. One semi had run into the back of another semi's trailer, and both trailer and cab were pretty well fucked up. We hope the fact that the ambulance was just sitting there, and the paramedics didn't seem to be in any major hurry, was a good sign. At any rate, somebody was going to be shoveling a LOT of feed corn off the highway!
- An "Italian" restaurant that uses canola oil instead of olive oil! I was told they didn't have a bottle of EVOO in the place! Folks, I was appalled. No olive oil? Heresy!! Needless to say, the food was okay, not not spectacular. Not a lot of there there, is probably the best way to describe it. Olive oil just adds a layer of richness that canola doesn't.
- And let us not forget the "good ol' Southern boy" in the Walmart shirt who was digging for gold in his nasal cavity right there in the hotel hallway, in front of everyone. I didn't stick around to see if he found anything -- or what he might do with his nugget prize. Redneck much?
More to follow....
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