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Shakesthecoffecan:
--- Quote from: injest on November 18, 2007, 05:29:48 pm ---actually it does!! Truman sent me some postcards from Calgary...they were a little late but they made it!
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Law, sending them things off was like an act of faith. Maybe they'll make it, maybe they won;t I thought, but I am glad they did.
Shakesthecoffecan:
So on a fall day before thanksgiving (in the US) what do you do to amuse yourself: Road trip.
We decided to take Highway 420 to Roanoke, and that road always leads to confusion. We're gonna leave at 11:30 in the morning. So, at 1:15 in the afternoon we are finaly on our way. We get to the county line and oh we gotta go back, someone forgot their ATM card and all their other plastic. So back to the house we go, get the stuff and lets try this again.
We are going to meet his son and the son's girlfriend for dinner at an Indian Resturant. What time I ask....6 pm. Okay, so what are we going to do in the mean while? Well, go to Fresh Market of course. Fresh Market is a whole foods, organically grown produce place that features free coffee in dixie cups that was calling my name out on the interstate. I downed three cups in rapid suscession and helped paruse for munchies snacks for the trip to the star. They had all kinds of weird stuff like freeze dried cantalope....
Shakesthecoffecan:
The fresh market was also where I found the picture of the day, the Buddah's hands, which was the strangest of all the strange fruit in the place. We ended up buying raisins and wasabi covered peanut, which are the absolute bomb! I shy away from peanuts, so I just ate the wasabi off of them. Talk about addictive!
So with out supplies on the dumbass mule we began our assent to the star, the Mill Mountain Star (http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/VAROAstar.html) the worlds largest man made star on the only mountain located inside the corporate limits of a city (talk about obscure symbolism). The road is a newer one that winds around the back of the mountain, not the insane switch back road my sister coasted down in a 1965 Pylmouth Valient that was out of gas and that the Blessed Frump-Frump was made to climb back in 1970. A truly horrible tale that makes me cry even now. (http://rtonline1.roanoke.com/history/frumpfrump.html)
There should always be mountains. Some place where one can be suspended above everyday affrais, look down upon them infact. My Granny was like that, I remember hearing as a child how in 1936 when they first got a car she wanted nothing else but to go up on the mountain, to gaze out at the world below from Lovers Leap. It is sacred space, and on that day its paths were littered with leaves, my boots crunching and kicking them with abandon. The path lead to the over look, and with the star like some grand corona behind us we gazed out at the Roanoke valley splayed before us. The river bisecting the interstate, the old neighborhoods, the high rises downtown, the open spaces, the rail yards, the airport, the malls, beyond them more mountains, Tinker, Poor, McAfee's Knob. Normal affaris, a quarter of a million lives, each complex and constantly changing. Each like a bubble in the boiling caulderon of life. Here one can step back and take a look at it. Marbel at it, like watching a story on a hugh TV.
I paid my tribute to the star, the incredible monstrosity the post war generation planted there, this land make that has stood guard over my comings and goings all my life. A few years ago it was dark for about 6 months for repair work and Mill Mountain looked so strange in its natural state. It is a part of things, it has always been as far as my mind was concerned.
The afternoon lead to reunion, acquition of bottles of Mead, a game of pool where I got to sink the winning 8 ball for the first time ever (yes, I called it) an opportunity to purchase a Dulcimer (Not this week) and a delicious meal of Lamb Saag and other unpronouncible treats.
jstephens9:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on November 18, 2007, 05:36:13 pm ---true! it's soooo great to sign on each day, and talk with the people I have been so fortunate to meet, and chat with the ones I hope to meet soon!
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I sure do agree with that Chuck!!!
CellarDweller:
Cool pics, big bro! Thanks for posting them!
--- Quote from: jstephens9 on November 18, 2007, 08:00:11 pm ---I sure do agree with that Chuck!!!
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