:D

I have Wander Lust. IE...I *LOVE* to travel. So today I said to myself "Self, it's time you went and did something neato with yoru car"

So I hopped into my car and filled up the gas tank and just took the highway outside of my house. I figured that since I knew the road would take me into Indiana it would give me a chance to do some exploring while still being able to find my way back.

This particular highway goes from Hamilton to Richmond...............and then to Chicago.


No, I did not actually end up in Chicago :rolleyes: but I did get as far as Fort Wayne. And so that people can appreciate this distance...um...here:

http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.ad...-06554-400c2527

:D

I drove all those hours to Fort Wayne (I discovered about a thousand Dairy Queens along the way :scared:) and then back tracked and found a wonderful Amish community :yeah: I decided..."Hey...I came all this way...I need to at least look at something kewl". So I stopped by and had a look around. Unfortunately most things were closed by this time :(. So I quickly jumped into the gift shop and poked around and then had the most DELICIOUS dinner I have ever had...mmm...it was ham and potatoes and homemade bread...<drools>

Anyway...I call my Mom from a quaint lil phone booth they had set up in some back lot and got the phone equivalent to a howler. Apparentally I am not to travel over state lines without at least informing her :mischief:

But she forgave me once I came home with a piece of authentic Amish crockery :D

It was a lot of fun and I completely enjoyed the experience. Next...I conquer Kentucky :mwaha:

*sigh*

I want to go to Chicago.

I got you beat...i went to Boston this weekend without telling anyone. mom yelled at me when i called her. :D

Okay, she didn't actually yell. But she was very clear that I was not to do such a thing again.

See...you should have bought her a bean crock and all would have been well :P

I get to make the trip again with my family this weekend so that we can all enjoy the Amish experience :lol:

How was Boston??? Did RMS yell at you??? Did you even SEE RMS??? Did you have your clam chowda???

Or did you sit in front of a computer in the hotel room and not even look out the window??? :mischief:

Actually, I too went out of state this weekend without informing my mother. But in my case, I went to Salt Lake City, and my mom still doesn't know about it.

WTH?!? I definitely wrote a long reply to this thred, and now it's gone :cry:

i talked about how wonderful boston is, and how wonderful rms is, and how i talked to him lots, and how i had clam chowder in the one fancy meal i allowed myself, and i read a whole book in the boston public library, and i saw surprisingly cool stuff in the Christian Science Mother Church (actually, next door in the Mary Baker Eddy Library.), and MIT rocks, and I shoulda been there, and I want to move to Boston.

and i hoped you have fun with the amish. :\

Wow, your all so adventurous!!! Maybe I should make it down to Seattle sometime this summer. My Mom wouldn't care much if I told her or not, hmm, not sure if that's a good thing or not.

I didn't leave the house today :P

Days like that are fun!!