One of the things about not having a "livin' in the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches" lifestyle anymore is the lack of planning you have to do. I do not have to plan when I brew the ale, plant the garden, buy seeds, saw off dead branches, mow 4 acres or clear out the barn or schedule urban-get-aways or nuttin'. So planning is a recreation and about recreation I am trying to think of things to do in 2004. I want to take at least one week and drive south to nose around and see, say, Kentucky. A place like that for a Maritimer is about as iconic and different as Norway...without all the pickled herring. Not that I have anything against pickled herring or eating dry seaweed for that matter but not as a centrepiece of my vacation, please. So what would I do on such a trip down through New York and Pennsylvania and beyond? I need to do some plannin'. I want to see Bluegrass festival. Big time BBQing. Trees with funny names and leaves in shapes I have never seen. Where scarlet tanagers are common. Where would you go?
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Comments
Arthur - January 28, 2004 11:24 pm
pickled herring or eating dry seaweed for
I'm feeling hungry already.
Ben - January 29, 2004 12:37 am
Stop at a country restaurant in West Virginia and listen to the accents while you eat. Or North Carolina. Or Georgia. Or Kentucky when you get there.
If you really want to experience another world go to a NASCAR race.
Wayne - January 29, 2004 9:05 am
Civil war battlefields. And Augusta, Georgia.
Alan - January 29, 2004 9:52 am
Good ideas. There are 1812 battlefields near here on both sides which I plan to investigate this summer but you are right, Wayne, that the civil war ones would be good to take in. Ben, the accents thing is right on - even in Watertown - 30 miles south it is clearly different.