September 21, 2005
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Okay. I'm back from my mini road trip with Mr. Danny. We hit up Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Vegas. Pictures may come later (yeah right I'm too lazy for that crap). There's one thing that occured to me during our road travels... when there's road kill, the dead animal more often than not ends up in between lanes or on the side of the highway -- hardly ever right smack in the middle of the lane. What exactly is the physics of this? There was another road trip related thing that I was perplexed about but I can't remember. Here are some other things that were of interest to me:
1. The Paris buffet... yum.
2. There are no call boxes in Arizona. So if your car breaks down in AZ, you better hope that it's not a billion degrees and that your cell phone works... and that you have AAA.
3. There is a Lollicup in the Primm outlet -- if you don't know where that is, that's near the border of NV/CA. Some poor Taiwanese bastards have to live out in the hellish desert in order to serve your boba needs. Sucks for them.
4. Although our room at Paris was nice, the atmosphere at Bellagio is much nicer.
5. If I were one of the first settlers who trekked West and happened to come across the big-ass chasm that is the Grand Canyon, would I stand in awe and wonder or would I stand there and curse the fact that I'd have to find a way around or through the big hole in the ground?
6. The Hoover Dam is a big wall.
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not that i could've gone anyway, but somehow a part of me is less than disappointed that you didn't end up inviting me along.
i find #5 to be very poignant. if i was one of those first settlers, my reaction would be "ooooh...*look left, look right* aw crap."
if i was one of the first settlers, i'd try and take a piss into the grand canyon.
If you hit an animal head on, either it will end up in your wheel well (if it's small enough) or it will get launched. In the latter case, sometimes it gets launched to the side of the road or, in some cases, in between lanes.
Or, sometimes, animals that are in between lanes have their spines broken by being sideswiped by a car. Obviously, this prevents them from being able to move any further.
Animals left in the road disintegrate after a while because of all of the car and truck traffic.
if i was a settler, i'd be fukin pissed. u travel all this way w/ hardly any food or water under miserable conditions, dirty as fuk, probs irritated as hell w/ ur fellow travelers, and just when u think u're almost there, a big ass gaping hole. like poseidon and odysseus. u ain't nuttin but an insignificant lil mortal.
haha, you are so compassionate to think about those unfortunate taiwanese out there in booney desertland!!! hilarious joyce!
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