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Road Trip - Nashville to Charlotte
I was driving to see some friends out east today...
somehow I got in this mindset where I was letting my mind run around
making weird connections, noticing thing...
I had a pile of my favorite cd's, and I played them in order, just grabbing
the next one off the top.
somehow each cd and song fit. **'s are lyrics as they came up.
I drove with my journal out jotting down things that caught my attention.
It's pretty random, I was also taking pictures (yes while driving...
don't try this at home unless you're crazy like me). []'s are signs
or slogans I saw.
Anyway, Here's a random slice of my Amazing day driving east on highway 40.
Largely random and without embellishment as I wrote it in my journal.
Friday, woke up, had a leisurely breakfast of caesar salad and chocolate milk...
sat down to eat it...a very relaxing start. It set the tone for the day.
8:30 Tree 63 self titled green
A nice reminder that it's not all about me, already in the player.
stopped for orange fanta, aired up my tires
this cool guage popped out to tell me the pressure...
trash bags along the road for miles, only one guy picking up trash
he must have been working all year
9:00 Meat Puppets - too high to die
good memories
my first meat puppets album -
a few ex girlfriend memories -
cuddling with cindy 5 years ago in the noble
romans parking lot
whoa emergency poop stop, i need more fiber!
a sub and a banana for lunch I've decided
Beautiful sunshine and rolling hills!
it's so good to be up in the daytime!
my sun-endorphins are kickin!
I think I saw a bald eagle, mile 281.
mile 283 icicles are hanging off the rock wall beside the road
[falling rock] just beyond falling water river
*coming down from the mountain I have seen the lofty glory*
10:11 Bjork - Selmasongs Mile 314
Majesty! track one...
a slice of mountain and a poofy cloud.
A cross, Mike died...A crow flies up from the median.
Eastern Time - lose an hour
4% grade, valley view
*Have you been to china, have you seen the great wall?
All walls are great if the roof doesn't fall!*
*always someone to catch me, when I fall*
10:45 Switchfoot - Beautiful Letdown - 354
*we were meant to live for so much more - we lost ourselves -
somewhere we live inside, maybe we were living with our eyes half open*
[Mountain Top Campground]
[Crosseyed cricket]
*when I wake in the morning, I want to blow into pieces, I want more than just
ok!*
[I've got Lance in my pants]
me - drivin...
*in a world full of bitter pain, bitter doubts
I was tryin so hard to fit in
till I figured out
I don't belong here!*
*Do we know what life is outside of our convenient lexus cages?
she says she'd rather fix her makeup, than fix what's going on,
but the problem keeps on calling, even with the cell phone gone*
Knoxville - golden orb, [Historic High]
Mile 401 - Mountains!!
[Ripley's Smokey Mtn. Aquarium "See 11 ft. Sharks!"]
12:32 EST Skillet - collide mile 413
[Huddle house]
*I recall falling madly in love with you*
I just don't care anymore! it's liberating - even if
a little mean.
[Cocke County]
I remember taking a picture of cheesy butte -
before my broken camera completely broke - it had a hole
in it that i stuck a pin through to turn it on.
The camera before that got stolen -
a good haul, cd player, back pack - an indestructable colemen -
I remember I got a flat tire on the way out of the park -
I'd do it all over again though! to make out in the
grass on a spring night with a beautiful girl
that I'm mutually in love with.
*Let the world crash love can take it*
[Asheville] must be sophisticated the distance is measured in KM!
(about the music) I'm just not this angry!
It's fun!
the mountain has a hairnet
North Carolina! 12:05 (nashville time)
*everywhere I go I can't escape your energy*
1:24 EST WEezer - pinkerton mile 15
*I'm tired of having sex...oh why can't I be making love come true*
I can't photo them all, but each cloud is a gift!
*I know i should get next to you, You got a look that makes me think you're cool
but it's just sexual attraction, it's not for real so i'd best keep whackin*
Signs that show consequences (an overturned truck from speeding around a turn)
- I like!
*it's time I got back to the good life*
*We were good as married in my mind, but married in my mind's no good...
let me know the truth, let me know the truth*
2:00 EST Audio Adreniline - Lift Mile 56
*You, you still amaze me, bigger than the sky
brighter than the sun, You're the one!*
I love how a distant cloud can paint a mountain black.
*I'm aliiiiiiiiive! have you ever longed to take a walk on top of a cloud?*
[pisgah]
beautiful: fork lifts loading trucks - then lifting themselves
on the back! It's like when you were a kid and wanted to pull your feet
off the ground with your arms so you could hover.
Deal Barn - Meal Barn
I stopped for lunch at the Meal Barn.
Poor man's dinner - two veggies + cornbread
[mashed potatoes
pintos
green beans
turnip greens
coleslaw
okra
squash]
banana pudding....mmmm
salt and pepper catfish is the special w/
baked potato, slaw and hushpuppies - 7.09
If I didn't need some fiber I'd eat it - ha I feel like
such a yuppie.
The TV is the rather loud soundtrack to the dining area...
a radio with news from Iraq is competing in the kitchen.
Soap drama vs. 23 shiite muslims dead during their holy day.
[Employeees No Personal
Phone calls
No friend or Famiily
Hanging out!!!]
[Dysartsville Road]
If I hadn't have had the pudding I've had stopped.
3:52 EST - Five Iron Frenzy Live
Charlotte feels like one giant gridlocked Carmel -
I thought as I pulled up on Carmel Drive.
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ok that's all, the rest of my trip was super awesome too, check
the old favorites section for some of slices of that.
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