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roadtrip to wherever. where should i go

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i have all next week off of work and my wife is going to the beach with the kid and friends for most of the week, so i've decided i'm going to jump in my rattletrap POS station wagon with a backpack, a change of clothes, a book or two, and my laptop with the goals of finally finishing writing this goddamn book (though simple progress would be just as welcome) and wandering to places i haven't been.

 

i've debated meandering north, NYC and maybe Montreal for the hell of it, but they're getting hit by a cold front starting Monday and I'm a little worried about my car up there. I've debated heading due west and seeing how far I get. Or I could go south down the coast into Florida. Maybe cut across the southeast through AL and MS, into Texas or something. Hell maybe I'll drive to Mexico.

 

Ideas?

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that's an awfully long haul, i'm not sure i'm set to go much past the mississippi river

 

man i miss being young(er) and being able to make these things quasi-spiritual pilgrimages. like stand by me where seeing that kid's body was ineffably necessary to existence. where you're inexplicably tethered to some great place or thing and long to jump off on some great adventure to explore it and then you're like frodo leaving the shire or truman burbank determined to see fiji at all costs... now instead i'm kind of just doing it because i'm bored. there is no grand stepping-off to a higher purpose, in search of something noble and epic.

 

like catching lightning in a bottle

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Everglades

Go hunt the skunk ape

 

 

I would love to travel to Chester's Mill, Maine. I heard the town is still struggling would have to chance it.

 

i have debated both of these actually. i've never been to the everglades. i just don't know if i'm really in a florida mood; i don't know if it'll be conducive to writing. i wanted to go to maine en route to new brunswick before i saw the weather forecast. partly because my brother-in-law went to bangor and got me this sweet-ass locally-made hat that i wore all the time before a prick customs official stole it from me in ecuador and i want to go find another one

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what's there?

 

It's a giant national park on the border of US and Mexico.  It's a totally awesome landscape with some incredible ecology because it's basically an isolated pocket of cooler temperatures due to the mountains (relative to the surrounding desert). It's a mountain range in the middle of the desert, and it has some of the best views of the sky in the lower 48 supposedly.  Lots of cool plants and animals.  Amazing hiking, if that's your thing.  I know you're more an anthropologist, but I couldn't help but suggest an absolutely brilliant place ecologically and biologically.  So much diversity there for a desert, I just love the huge difference between surrounding landscape and the park itself.  Look up some pictures, it's breathtaking I think.

 

That being said I'm not sure you could make it in the time you have... It's waaay far down there.

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Did a five-week road trip a few years ago. Charlotte to DC, to NYC, to Niagara Falls (Canada side), to Chicago, to the Badlands in South Dakota, to Yellowstone NP, all the way to the Oregon coast, to San Fransico, to LA, to Vegas, to the AZ/UT border, to Arches NP, to a Colorado ski resort, to Great Sand Dunes, to White Sand Dunes, to Austin, to Atlanta, then back to Charlotte.

 

Good times.

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