Road Trip!
Greetings from Greenfield, Indiana!
I am en route to Boulder, Colorado for the month long TASI summer school program. I decided that, instead of flying, I would drive there and stop by New York and my grandmama’s in St Louis on the way.
On Monday evening, Jenn and I set off for New York. We had a rainy drive but the Lady Bug boogied to Lou Reed’s Transformer
and you know what they say about honey bears
when you shave off all their beary hair
you have yourself a hairy-minded pink bare bear
On Tuesday, Jenn had to go to work so I set off by myself. Jenn’s neighborhood in Brooklyn:
I headed to the Max Ernst Retrospective at the Met.
The Met is wonderful food for my soul. I particularly enjoy the Modern Art—not that I understand it. But I love that it is strange and confusing and sometimes cerebral. The Max Ernst Retrospective was excellent and incredibly fun. My favorite piece was The Joy of Living. It’s a garden with forests in the background. The plants in the garden are full of little surprises including some plants morphing into copulating forms. It was not a highlighted work so most people just walked right by it. I stared at it for a good twenty minutes which attracted the attention of some others. “Eew. That’s grotesque!” “That’s weird!!”
I then walked the ninety blocks to Soho where I met up with Jenn for a tasty organic dinner and drinks with people she works with. It was a bright and sunny day, a welcome break from the week of soggy weather we had in Boston. (By the way, I'm having trouble walking today. I blistered the bottoms of my feet!)
I rolled out of bed this morning and hit the road. Here is the Lady Bug enjoying the Pennsylvania countryside:
…and in front of the strange strange rest stop where (1) we got lattes at a highway-side Starbucks and (2) we saw the Amish in line at Burger King
Here is the Lady Bug admiring the horses in the western Ohio countryside:
and at an Ohio reststop
Twelve hours of driving got us to Indiana. We were pretty wiped but, surprisingly, the quality of the music on the radio inproved dramatically when we crossed the state line.
Other highlights of the day:
A truck full of pipes: from the very back you could see through them but as you moved to the side, they got dark. This was fun.
This looks like some kind of farm equipment or factory gizmo but I’m not really sure what it is.
I am en route to Boulder, Colorado for the month long TASI summer school program. I decided that, instead of flying, I would drive there and stop by New York and my grandmama’s in St Louis on the way.
On Monday evening, Jenn and I set off for New York. We had a rainy drive but the Lady Bug boogied to Lou Reed’s Transformer
and you know what they say about honey bears
when you shave off all their beary hair
you have yourself a hairy-minded pink bare bear
On Tuesday, Jenn had to go to work so I set off by myself. Jenn’s neighborhood in Brooklyn:
I headed to the Max Ernst Retrospective at the Met.
The Met is wonderful food for my soul. I particularly enjoy the Modern Art—not that I understand it. But I love that it is strange and confusing and sometimes cerebral. The Max Ernst Retrospective was excellent and incredibly fun. My favorite piece was The Joy of Living. It’s a garden with forests in the background. The plants in the garden are full of little surprises including some plants morphing into copulating forms. It was not a highlighted work so most people just walked right by it. I stared at it for a good twenty minutes which attracted the attention of some others. “Eew. That’s grotesque!” “That’s weird!!”
I then walked the ninety blocks to Soho where I met up with Jenn for a tasty organic dinner and drinks with people she works with. It was a bright and sunny day, a welcome break from the week of soggy weather we had in Boston. (By the way, I'm having trouble walking today. I blistered the bottoms of my feet!)
I rolled out of bed this morning and hit the road. Here is the Lady Bug enjoying the Pennsylvania countryside:
…and in front of the strange strange rest stop where (1) we got lattes at a highway-side Starbucks and (2) we saw the Amish in line at Burger King
Here is the Lady Bug admiring the horses in the western Ohio countryside:
and at an Ohio reststop
Twelve hours of driving got us to Indiana. We were pretty wiped but, surprisingly, the quality of the music on the radio inproved dramatically when we crossed the state line.
Other highlights of the day:
A truck full of pipes: from the very back you could see through them but as you moved to the side, they got dark. This was fun.
This looks like some kind of farm equipment or factory gizmo but I’m not really sure what it is.
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