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Notes from the road
Mar. 14th, 2024 09:00 amBack to NC.
Back to Hillsborough and the Eno House
Back to that cute Airbnb
Back to what is quickly becoming my happy place, althought I'm hard-pressed to explain it.
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The drive in to Charleston was just beautiful. I coasted my way through the stop-and-go of Beavercreek, and Rover hit 49.7mpg on her fresh tank of gas. Blue skies, little traffic, and the sun behind me lighting up everything in the most glorious way. It was not until I-64 that the sun was all "I'M RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!", blinding me on my merge onto the still-under-construction-but-much-further-along interstate.
Somewhere past Chillicothe, when the landscape starts getting interesting, I entered another of those "distracted driver zero tolerance corridor" things. Dayton has one, from 5 miles north of downtown to a few miles south of downtown -- where one would expect such a thing. This area, though? No clue. I'll have to research this later.
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To research later:
- distracted driver corridors in ohio
- Leo petroglyph (I will get there someday!)
- wtf is a "dale"
- those trees in bloom in Charleston
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Ohio's crop of potholes must be the late-blooming variety, not that I'm complaining. WV's were spotty, but the dips at the bridge connections still catch me off guard, and you'd think I'd know by now to slow the eff down! Nope.
Outside Charleston, after seeing only a few spots of actual green grass behind he skeletal remains of last year's beauty, these pops of creamy-white bottle-brush trees in bloom dotted the landscape. Bradford pear? Male Bradford pear, more specifically? *adds that to the list above*
Coming out of a construction zone at Nitro (I think) there were emergency vehicles on the side of the road, and flames lapping the edge of the roadway. Being WV, it was a steep dropoff, so there was no way for me to tell how bad it was, but there was that brief moment of flashback to my first trip to Asheville and the world being on fire. Can we not, please?
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Because I am incapable of both reading AND comprehending a weather forecast, today might include a trip to buy shorts.
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Haven't heard from Zach's gf (whose name I still do not know! Gah!) so i don't know if I'll see them this trip. Told her where I'd be tonight and when, but I won't be a pest.
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About 5 hours ahead of me, so I should probably hit the road. Let's see how well the kids behave today...
Back to Hillsborough and the Eno House
Back to that cute Airbnb
Back to what is quickly becoming my happy place, althought I'm hard-pressed to explain it.
-----
The drive in to Charleston was just beautiful. I coasted my way through the stop-and-go of Beavercreek, and Rover hit 49.7mpg on her fresh tank of gas. Blue skies, little traffic, and the sun behind me lighting up everything in the most glorious way. It was not until I-64 that the sun was all "I'M RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!", blinding me on my merge onto the still-under-construction-but-much-further-along interstate.
Somewhere past Chillicothe, when the landscape starts getting interesting, I entered another of those "distracted driver zero tolerance corridor" things. Dayton has one, from 5 miles north of downtown to a few miles south of downtown -- where one would expect such a thing. This area, though? No clue. I'll have to research this later.
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To research later:
- distracted driver corridors in ohio
- Leo petroglyph (I will get there someday!)
- wtf is a "dale"
- those trees in bloom in Charleston
-----
Ohio's crop of potholes must be the late-blooming variety, not that I'm complaining. WV's were spotty, but the dips at the bridge connections still catch me off guard, and you'd think I'd know by now to slow the eff down! Nope.
Outside Charleston, after seeing only a few spots of actual green grass behind he skeletal remains of last year's beauty, these pops of creamy-white bottle-brush trees in bloom dotted the landscape. Bradford pear? Male Bradford pear, more specifically? *adds that to the list above*
Coming out of a construction zone at Nitro (I think) there were emergency vehicles on the side of the road, and flames lapping the edge of the roadway. Being WV, it was a steep dropoff, so there was no way for me to tell how bad it was, but there was that brief moment of flashback to my first trip to Asheville and the world being on fire. Can we not, please?
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Because I am incapable of both reading AND comprehending a weather forecast, today might include a trip to buy shorts.
-----
Haven't heard from Zach's gf (whose name I still do not know! Gah!) so i don't know if I'll see them this trip. Told her where I'd be tonight and when, but I won't be a pest.
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About 5 hours ahead of me, so I should probably hit the road. Let's see how well the kids behave today...
