I left home when I was seventeen

[timeripple]

My darlings, I have not dropped off the face of the planet—though it sort of feels like it—no, I am in California, and here I stay for the foreseeable future. Mind you, I can only deal with the future about two weeks in advance, so you see the problem with my life planning skills right here.

I have traveled by train and by car from one end of the country to the other, with lots of detouring in between and a brief stint where my friend M and I seriously considered becoming casino waitresses in Reno and then writing a trashy novel about it. mousapelli took me to a palace of wonders called Chocolate World and let me sleep on her couch and bond with Datte and watch all her con DVDs.

This has actually backfired, though, because now I’m in a KAT-TUN phase, and somebody needs to take all my music away from me, because I keep listening to 勇気の花 and then sobbing every time it gets to Hittori ja nai yo, nakama ga iru yo.

See, I'm crying again. No, stop. A road trip is more than what you leave behind. I have seen little harbor towns and shining cities and also elephants and a whole lot of sagebrush. I have participated in philosophical conversations about the human condition (lasting most of Kansas) and masqueraded as a German tourist (super useful for thwarting obnoxious panhandlers). I have visited the first coffee shop west of the Mississippi and driven past a mountain forest fire at night and seen the Milky Way.

Of many peoples—their cities he saw, and understood their minds;
Many perils his spirit suffered upon the sea.

Because a loose and selective translation of Homer is always relevant. Always.

More soon--I will try.

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[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, can you keep a secret? Parts of Kansas were actually pretty. Though I may be being influenced by the giant rainstorm that also happened, and by the gorgeous recording of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik that came on the radio when we were scrolling for weather info. I think EKN is badly overplayed--or maybe I just don't like the recording that I have--but this one was so light and lively and had almost a floating quality, it was beautiful. (I tracked down the recording later--here is part of it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKwJHPYqGko), performed by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.)

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

(The skies in Kansas are almost as good as here in OK, and Colorado. Because it's between.)