Amuck in America 2006: The Message
8/29/06
This is my first shift in the back of Serenity and I am learning that it is difficult to type while bouncing down the road in an RV. I know it has been a couple of days since I have gotten any updates out in the world and it is my hope that I can make up for this once we hit St. Louis. The last thing I want is folks wondering wether or not I am having a good time. I want you not only to know that I am, I want you to share in it as best as you can.
This morning we woke up at The Kentucky Horse Park, which is a Kentucky state park. Over the weekend the normal horse trader crowd was replaced by the kennel club crowd. infact not all of the dog owners had left by the time we arrived on Monday. It wasn't loud though. Apparently if you are going to have a dog worth showing you are going to train it to keep its darn yap shut after sundown. Tuesday2 our Public Relations Officer and shipboard cat had no issues sharing the park with a bunch of smelly old hounds. Again, I think of smuggling beagles...
In an effort to keep down the ammount of waste building up in our tanks I will do my bathroom business in public facilities whenever I can. Plus, its kind of a tight fit. Showering is like showering in a sleeping bag, but that's ok. I imagine it is much like it was on skylab sans the zero gravity. Anyway, I degress. I am sitting in a stall in the facilities provided by the Kentucky Horse Park and I am reading the walls, as expected there are plenty of offers for gay sex liasons, but there is always some local color to be found that I find most interesting. In this case, two pieces of writing on the wall caught my eye. The first said simply, "Skol Mint". I assume this is some sort of grass roots ad campaign with a pocket knife on plastic walls but who really knows the real meaning in the message. The second that caught my eye was "I love Inuyasha". I can only guess that even Kentucky has a anime fan base.
While I am pondering smokeless tobaco and anime a cricket hops into the stall promptly rolls over and dies right there at my feet. How rude! Oddly enough when I went to wash my hands at the seven sinks there was a dead cricket in each one but two. One had no cricket at all (I used this one) and the one next to it had two. Best laid plans of crickets....
We're maybe an hour and a half from St. Louis, the plan is we are going to go to a KOA in Granite City and hook the RV up to power so Tuesday2 may enjoy cooler temperatures and the three of us will take the shuttle into St. Louis and gaze upon the arch a while. The plan is we will eat an early dinner at the Old Spegetti Factory and then return to the RV dock the shuttle and head to Hanable MO. If I can find them, maybe I can hire the A Team. (It was a TV show, look it up kids.) That was the plan. My gut feeling is though that we will end up staying in Granite City for the night and heading out in the morning to catch lunch in Hannible rather than dinner. That will be OK too.
Well, that's my story up until now. More later. As for me, I think I'm going to lay down on the couch and take a little nap. Why not? Sara is driving... Sara is driving and I need to demonstrait how comfortible I am with her at the controls for the very first time. There. I said it. :)
