Posts from ‘October, 2009’

My mispronounciation of most American city names continues (first Helena, then Mobile). I mentioned to a southern man a couple days ago that we were heading to “New Orleeeeeeeeans” (orleans rhymes with beans) only to be rudely told that NOBODY from the south says it that way. It’s “New Orlins” or better yet, N’arlins. You [...]

The plot thickens… On our way to New Orleans we saw this shady character: It can only mean one thing: after escaping from Franklin, the arch-fiend Vladisnikov has sent his spies to track us! (if this makes no sense to you, read the post entitled The Great Escape)

For those of you non-lingually inclined: The Lost People (in ungrammatical spanish, I’m sure) The interstates in Florida definitely have more billboards. They seem to populate the sides of the road more densely than anywhere else we’ve been. Your eyes will either be accosted by anti-abortion ads, pro-vasectomy bulletins or shots of large breasts beckoning [...]

Our latest collection of roadtrip quotables: In the car for way too long (again): “We’re driving sideways today. Straight across the map, left to right. It’s kinda hard on the tires” On a Tennessee Baptist Church: “Close Facebook. Open God’s Book” In the Park Ranger’s Office: “I’m Lost – I’ve gone to look for myself. [...]

Here’s our first contest for all y’all (that’s plural by the way…. y’all is singular down here) If you can name which movie this line is from, you will win a fantastic, mind-boggling, wondorous, glory-of-glories prize from Leah and Monika. Here it is: “The doors! The doors! The doors made me do it!!!” And no [...]

We went out to look for gators. There are meant to be dangerous, dog-eating, hand-crunching, sneaky-eyed alligators all over Florida. Under the pretense of walking Badger, we went to the east side of Lake Tarpon, to John Chestnut Senior Park, to find them. No luck. All we found was an abundance of swamp squirrels. People [...]