This is a Guest Entry posted by Amanda
When I was in Costa Rica, non-Americans found it very difficult to imagine how large the US is, until I started describing how long it takes to drive places. Then, wham, all of a sudden, they got it. The Drunken Welshman who thought Texas was the capital (since that's where Bush is from) said, "Oh...so it seems to me, Amanda, that you have to DRIVE across the US to see it!"
Gotta love those Drunken Welshmen. And he really was a great trip to talk to--"Oh, the bloody English, bastards!"
In any case, Mr. Aerospace and I are back from our Midwestern road trip. He planned this while I was gone.
Random thoughts.
AirVenture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1) If I never see another airplane again, it will be too soon.
2) I tentatively signed up to teach knitting at the craft tent next year.
3) While Mr. Aerospace and I went our separate ways, I learned to gas weld (who-hoo!) and got a new boyfriend, Mr. Frank.
4) We saw the Spaceship One/White Knight fly, as well as the Global Flyer, flown by Steve Fossett. That was cool.
5) Why yes, camping with 600,000 of my closest friends is exciting!
Minneapolis, Minnesota
1) My family is crazy, but only to me.
2) I still love Needlework Unlimited in the Twin Cities. Great LYS.
3) Mr. Aerospace puts up with a lot of bitching when a pattern I'm trying to draft/create doesn't work out the way I want it to.
4) I don't know what happened to Hidden Beach, but it totally stinks now. Bah.
Omaha, Nebraska
1) Iowa smells like animal poop (the route to NE went through IA).
2) Mr. Aerospace's family is wonderful.
3) Nebraska is no longer "all cornfields."
St. Louis (a stopping point twice)
1) The arch is a catenary. Not a hyperbola, not a hypocycloid...
2) Baseball is big.
Driving
1) I really like driving through west Kentucky.
2) We watched several employees act nutty at a fast food joint in Nebraska. I think they were pumping drugs through the air vents. At another joint in Tennessee the entire staff was incompetent.
3) I have a sudden toothache in a molar and driving with that, even with Advil and max strength Orajel, really stinks.
4) My engine is revving for no reason. It's freaking me out.
5) If I never get into my truck again, it will be too soon.
Flown by Amanda at 04:11 AM on August 08, 2005
