Sunday, March 09, 2008

On the Road Again


Hi everybody:

I must appologize again for the long layoff between blog posts. It's really been a combination of two things: work and writer's block. The former I have dealt with before but the later is a whole new beast that I have had to deal with -- and I don't like it. Never in the history of Jordon's Deep Thoughts have I been truly without an idea. Regardless, I have a bunch of things I need to keep you abreast of so today's post should be a juicy one.

First of all, for you long time readers you know that I have something of the travel bug. I got it from my parents but I have taken it to a whole new level. One of my goals is to travel to every U.S. state by the time I am 30.

Quick side note: should I have simply written U. state? I mean U.S. (United States) state is kind of redundant, don't you think? But I digress.

As of a few weeks ago my state total stood at 47 of 50. All that was left was Missouri, Idaho, and Montana. Technically, I had been to Missouri when I was a kid because TWA used to have their hub in St. Louis and we used to stop there on family trips out west. But I don't count the airport as being in a state. The minimum is to drive into a state. So my cousin and I once again boarded a plane to an atypical vacation spot with the sole intention of checking a few more states off our lists. This involved driving more than 1300 miles over a 3 day period through 5 different states.

Missouri...check! Only 2 states to go...I will keep you posted. Some of the highlights included seeing the geographic center of the lower 48 states, the world's largest ball of twine, the Budweiser brewery, the St. Louis Arch, Leavenworth Prison (home of animal lover Michael Vick) and the birthplace of the world's tallest man. There was even an 8'11" bronze statue of Robert Wadlow himself. It was fantastic.

As we were driving -- I think it was through Iowa -- we started talking about girlfriends. He made the funny comment that when traveling with a significant other you should always take two pictures: one with both of you and one with just you. At first, I didn't understand why but then he explained it and it made perfect sense. If you break up, then you will still have a picture you can put in a frame and enjoy. I mean, say you go to Los Angeles and take a picture of the two of you in front of the Hollywood sign. Adorable I'm sure. A few months later you break up but you really like the picture. You wouldn't put a framed vacation picture of you and your ex on a shelf for any future dates to see, would you? It was pure genius. Of course then we realized it might not sound good when you ask your significant other to take a picture of just you. They respond with, "Why?" And you nicely respond, "So when we break up I can still remember this moment."

Let me know how that goes everyone!

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