72 Hours Later: Towns and Things

The Last 72 Hours in Photo-Form

We've made it. Liberty Township, about 20 miles north of Cincinnati, greeted us with six inches of snow, a beautiful new home, and lots of hugs. The trip was great--other than a few intense sessions of panic at the thought that I was getting so far from my friends, things went well. A random things...

Some interesting...

Things to hear:
-Jeff Buckley live at Sinee
-Elizabeth Town soundtrack
-A few Deathcab albums
-Billy Joel
-The Strokes
-Ryan Adams
-Damien Rice, Damien Rice, Damien Rice (cannonball was played no less than 25 times)

Things to think:
-The world is so much bigger than Texas
-God knows what He's doing; I often don't. This is cool.
-I love this country.
-I might be falling hard for a girl I hardly know and couldn't be more fine with it
-Walmart bungee cords are modern miracles

Things to see:
-Kentucky unfolding like a post card around every bend through the many winding stretches
-The blankest stares I've ever seen from Burger King (not Wendys!) employees when Sean orders a Frosty in Arkansas.
-A meteor shower at 1am somewhere in Tennesse
-The way Elizabeth town looks like it does in the movie
-Sam Houston, the third largest statue in the country

Town names: (I swear I couldn't make these up even if I tried...)
-Athens
-Palestine (X 2)
-Glasgow
-White House
-Verona
-Texarkana (in a gas station I'm chirping loudly into my cell-phone asking my uncle if Texarkana is a highway name or something. some back woods woman hears this and begins to cackle at me, saying "the boy thinks it's a road; it's a TOWN!", followed by more cackling. I shoot her a dirty glance and mutter defeatedly, "yeah but I know about books and... stuff.")