SMF Goes National?

[KGIII]

So, my wife and I were wanting something to do that was different than what we were doing. We closed up the house, packed up her apartment, and we're now in New Hampshire.

We just finished dining at Flatbread, a pizza joint, in N. Conway. It was so-so and the pizza didn't sit well. I feel like I could vomit as I type this.

From here it looks like we'll be going through Vermont and then hitting New York - going to the falls. Ho hum. We'll skirt Canada which is nice enough because my French really isn't that good and she speaks no French at all.

We don't know where we will be going or how long we will be on the trip but we're off and we are taking you with us. As it is night time there aren't any good photographs. If you want to see where we left then http://maine.kgiii.info is the URL. There are some Mt. Washington pics there too so that is right near here.

Anyhow, I'll be mooching bandwidth and bathrooms across the country. Maybe we will hit all fifty states or at least the 48 that are almost rational to drive to.

If you live in the country and you can think of something we should certainly see then you should add that to this thread. I'll keep you posted on our progress.

Additionally, I'll still be logging in and doing support and stuff like that. Don't think I am taking off on you or anything.

(How's that for dedication?)

Cheers!

Or as they say here in New Hampshire, "Cheers!"

KGIII

[SleePy]

Stop by Washington... I don't got cookies but I could give you a can of beans

[KGIII]

We are now in a god-awful town called Potsdam. New York is WAY too long. We slept for a bit way back in some town at a bank. (In the car - no hotels no nothing.)

We are on Rt. 11, it goes left, and I have officially decided that SMF hates this part of New York or, well, at least I do.

I have to make a pooh and I am in the car. *sighs*

It is raining. Do you know how much I hate the rain?

We have yet to kill each other. That is a good sign. Though I might just as a matter of GENERAL PRINCIPLE. That and I have to take a poop. Or leave one.

Anyone in the New York area? Can I *use* your bathroom? I hate public bathrooms all most as much as I hate the rain.

I am sore, I am cramped, and I am thinking we should have picked up a mobile home for this trip.

NOTE TO SELF: Get giant friggen'  camper.

NOTE TO SABRINA: Stop reading what I type.

NOTE TO SELF: She doesn't listen.

*sighs*

Anyhow... We are going to try to make Niagra Falls sometime today but it is raining so I am going to push her off and get back in the car and be making the rest of this journey by myself.

On a more realistic, and serious, note... I really hate the rain. Oh - I mean it. I hate the rain. Oh - and I need a bathroom.

KGIII Poops Across America <-- what this sojourn really should be called...

If you really want a scruffy (and smelly) KGIII and company to stop at your house drop a note in here along with a PM with some sort of information. We are thinking that there's at least one place (after last night's phone conversation) where we will want to stop in our travels.

Still, we have no real destination. We are thinking Florida sounds nice this time of year but really it is just a fun name to say. Watch your lips when you say the name of that state. See? It is just way too fund to say.

Anyhow, that's enough of an update for you.

Oh - I really REALLY hate the rain and I can't think of a time when I have been through this state and it hasn't at least been raining or snowing. I do like the snow.

Ah well...

Niagra Falls here we come!

See Ya Later!

Or, as they say here in New York, "**** You! ***hole!"

KGIII

[jossanaijr]

or at least the 48 that are almost rational to drive to.

You cannot miss Hawaii.... I had already been there 3 times (from Brazil!) and it is fantastic...

[KGIII]

I have been to Hawaii but I can't really drive there. Well, not yet. *sighs* That is a good idea though - Alaska too.

Anyone got a bathroom near Potsdam New York? I gotta make a poop so bad I feel like it is a turtle poking its head out of the shell.

*sighs*

She's looking at me like I am insane and reading this as I type it.

[KGIII]

We are so not going to make it to Niagara Falls before dark. We might just skip it and go to somewhere else. Maybe stop in and see one of the Great Lakes. *sighs* I have been trying to not sing the Erie Canal song (spelling?)

I've got a mule, her name is Sal, 15 miles on the erie canal...

Ah well.

We are off yet again - I got a few support questions done and rested my butt only to sit on a hard bench in a rest area. *sighs*

Anyhow...

I made a poop. I was pleased. Wal-Mart had a clean bathroom in the back.

It isn't too dreadfully exciting but it was a good poop as far as poops go.

[codenaught]

Good for you! Did the crap weigh more than 8.6 Courics!?

Anyways hope you enjoy your trip, just go to a bunch of random places and graffiti SMF all over the place.

[KGIII]

SIGNS

We all know the importance of signs and so far I have been grading them on their use, spacing, location, size, and accuracy.

(I am very exhausted.)

Maine gets an A-
New Hampshire gets a B
Vermont gets an F
New York wins so far with a whopping A+

As much as I seem to dislike the state (it is a really LONG state to drive across and we are still not across it) they are fantastic at putting signs in the right places, at the right size, and it is almost a beautiful thing except it really destroys what scenery there was.

Upstate New York is not too bad. That is where I am now. What is now understood is that before I was NOT in Upstate New York I was in NORTHERN NEW YORK and yes they say there is a difference and I understand that now.

I am at a Hotel in the Buffalo area and we are going to head north tomorrow, after checkout, and go to the Niagara Falls probably.

Northern New York is beautiful farmland and the people there are a lot like what I found in Maine. I am not too fond of New Hampshire or Vermont but there are some nice places in both of those states.

I am exhausted and hungry. I am clean though. That is good.

My poop wasn't that large at all really. I almost could go for another one. (It is about the only interesting thing so far.)

I attach a folder of us doing something or other on Rt.... Something or other. I think it is I-90 but I am not entirely sure. New Yorkers drive like crazed maniacs except they are actually FAIRLY polite to us slow folks who just drive along at a steady speed-limit-like speed.

That is enough for now I suppose. I am tired, hungry, needing some loving, and actually will have a bed tonight. I haven't had a real night's sleep since like Wednesday.

[KGIII]

I take that back - that was Rt. 11.

[metallica48423]

*sigh* you and your poop

[KGIII]

It is bright and early and we actually slept in a bed. I am not so sure what is continental about this breakfast. Google Maps is open and I've got some sort of plan. Ah well. We so should have gotten an RV for this sort of trip.

[SleePy]

Remember to change your oil every 3,000 miles

[KGIII]

Well, we are now in suberbia PA. We are out in the east side. That means we drove straight down from Buffalo, about halfway through PA, and then drove back east for a few hours. We went and visited a buddy of mine and we're working on getting our body's in shape for the next leg of our journey.

We have gone about 1200 miles so far and we are only in PA. We might crash out here tonight as well. Then I will have some time to get a few things done. Yay! Go me.

We went to Niagara Falls. Which, for those who don't know much geography, is above Buffalo. So we drove to Buffalo, drove north, then drove south through it. To top it off we drove west a billion and eight miles and then drove back east half of it.

We are thinking that we will meander towards FL and then over towards TN and then go up towards Michigan.

So far we have only missed MA and RI but we didn't really want to go to either of those two places anyhow. When and if we drive back we might drive through there.

Attached is are pictures of Lake Erie and Niagara Falls.

It was dreadfully cold (windy) in that area. Even being from Maine didn't help matters much. It was absolutely fridgid and I have been coming down with a cold.

I am thinking it is time to head to a warmer client at some point. Though, well, we may stay in this area for a couple of days to see what happens.

So far PA has the most amusing signs. Either that or we were just exhausted. One of the funniest was, "Buckle Up For The Next Million Miles."

Note to travelers: You can not buy beer anywhere in PA. Well, you can but it has to be from some sort of distrobution center or in a bar. Oddly, in a bar you can take the beer out with you but you can not in a club. (I have no idea what the differences are between the two in this state but it is different than what I am accustomed to.)

Stay off of Rt. 22 in the morning hours. At that time of the day there are nothing but giant trucks that are going a billion and ten miles an hour and parked in random places.

The roads here are just scary as all heck because they're turning 4 lane, 65 MPH zones (a bit over 100 KPH) into these death traps with concrete barriers all around you creating just a single lane. Yay for road construction!

We need to do laundry and clean ourselves up. We smell funny and have dirty clothing left. Not much clean clothing at all. I think I am down to just a single set of clean stuff and I am saving that for a special occasion.

We might stay here and get mildly intoxicated tonight. Then, tomorrow, we may actually drive NORTH! *sighs* This is certainly not a direct trip anywhere but that's to be expected when you haven't a plan or any destination. If we can get through this without killing each other then we can likely get through anything.

(Buffalo was a grumpy place to be.)

Anyhow...

Attached are some pics and I'll keep you posted with the travels as we go across the country doing SMF support. (And taking pictures and having fun.)

[Omega X]

The roads here are just scary as all heck because they're turning 4 lane, 65 MPH zones (a bit over 100 KPH) into these death traps with concrete barriers all around you creating just a single lane. Yay for road construction!

I just had to laugh at that one because its so true. Those things are no joke, I've seen plenty of uprooted vehicles on my way to Houston because of those construction death traps. Someone should tell them that its not safe to do it that way.

[MultiformeIngegno]

@KGIII: Come here in Italy!!

[KGIII]

Alright - there is a lot to add to this but I will have to add more later.

We found that the deer are little in Tennessee but they are still quite capable of causing problems. And now my cell phone no longer works. We were stuck sleeping in a tent for a couple of days.

However... I don't have a lot of time.

We are at a hotel in beautiful Panama City, Florida and we're leaving in about 30 minutes.

We hit W. Virginia, Virginia, did Maryland for a very short time, and then went to Tenn. It is great there. Absolutely beautiful and they have nice mountain tops that need someone to live on them.

We then went to Georgia...

Georgia gets the worst signs on the planet record (so far) and the drivers there are all in a hurry to go nowhere. You can see the stop light turning red and yet they all still want to ride your butt at 85 MPH until you slam on your breaks for the next light. I don't understand... It sucked and we left Kennesaw as quickly as we could after meeting a friend of my wife's there.

We then headed into Alabama and decided to go down to Florida where we are right now. We have warmed up finally. We are never going to Georgia again which limits our destinations from this area but that's okay. We may head over towards the swamps when they kick us out of the hotel for the day.

[quartzster]

what about this? time wise may not work for you

http://www.sandcastledays.com/

by the way...only one province in Canada speaks french a lot...Quebec
but they also speak english generally

[motumbo]

We don't know where we will be going or how long we will be on the trip but we're off and we are taking you with us. As it is night time there aren't any good photographs. If you want to see where we left then http://maine.kgiii.info is the URL. There are some Mt. Washington pics there too so that is right near here.

Cool!

Anyhow, I'll be mooching bandwidth and bathrooms across the country. Maybe we will hit all fifty states or at least the 48 that are almost rational to drive to.

I've always wanted to do this.  Go see all 50 states.  I love traveling.  I'm not into big cities and nightclubs, I'm into communities, neighborhoods, and natural scenery.

I don't travel nearly as much as I like.  But when I do I always make it a point to check out the surrounding communities.  When I was in Vegas I rented a car and drove through the neighborhoods in North Las Vegas.  Well, we drove all over the Las Vegas valley, actually, including out to Arizona and California.

If you live in the country and you can think of something we should certainly see then you should add that to this thread. I'll keep you posted on our progress.

Will do.

[sight|i|picture]

check out http://geocaching.com and find some caches while you travel. You will see more of the country than you expect. Don't forget to bring a hand-held GPSr! Oh, have fun!

[KGIII]

Well, we're now in Terre Haute, Indiana. There is so much to add/say that I don't have the time to do it at this moment in time but what I have done is make this:

http://travel.kgiii.info

You can go there and see some of the pictures we have taken in our travels. I'll hopefully be able to update this later tonight and do some support. First I have a bluegrass festival/concert/jam session that needs attending.

KGIII