So this is my first real post, real being defined as "from a public location nowhere near my former residence". Look it up.
I'm in this place called Sawyer's Grill in downtown Lexington Kentucky. It's a cute little town actually. They call themselves a city but come on, I know what a city looks like. You're an overgrown small-town and you know it. This is what the road has done to me after only two days. I'm anthropomorphizing a city and attempting to converse with it.
I spent the past couple days camping. The first night was next to Buckeye Lake in Ohio. It was pretty lame. I wanted to camp there because I figured there must be some lakeside camping, it being a State Park. DENIED. NO CAMPING OR SWIMMING ALLOWED, the invisible park sentry screamed to me. I was so disappointed. So I had to settle for some shoddy campground a mile down the road, which ended up costing me $35, a bit over-priced for a piece of Earth on which to lay my tent in my opinion. I stayed at Budget Inn in Missouri once for $35. Sure, the room reeked of smoke, and the sheets were not the freshest I'd ever encountered, but there was a private bathroom and a TV with HBO. At least the campgrounds had showers. I took an excessively long one, to get as much as I could out of my $35. KOA Campgrounds, never again.
Last night, I spent the night in Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky. It was the northern part of the forest, in a campground called Twin Knobs, which is close to the town of Morehead (I'd like to point out my restraint from making some jokes about camping at Twin Knobs in Morehead. This is a classy online journal thankyouverymuch. Though feel free to post any jokes that come to mind haha). This was my second attempt to camp lakeside, as the campgrounds sat on one of the elbows of Cave Run Lake. I fared much better this time. My campsite was about a hundred feet from the lake. There was also a beach, which was not right next to my campsite, but within driving distance. I spent about an hour in the water, which was surprisingly warm I thought. The last lake I was in sucked the air out of my unfortunate body. This water welcomed me in, almost sucking me down with it's inviting warmth.
Today has been much different. I've been hanging around downtown Lexington, KY. I visited the city museum, and have given myself a walking tour of the whole downtown area. Beautiful weather here today.
I'm still looking at making improvements to this site. I've actually got started on that map thing I haphazardly had mentioned in my last post. I also want to do some fun things like trivia polls based on fun facts I picked up on the trip, and create some lists on things I've seen and done. Let me know if anyone has any ideas for stuff to add and I'll run it by my webmaster to see what he can do. Ok that was totally a joke I don't have a webmaster come on man.
Until then...
Chris
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4 comments:
KOA sucks a big one. I would give their campgrounds 1 knob out of 10.
I vote for the map, where in addition to your route, you rate the states as suck or not suck, and color it in like an electoral map.
You want me to joke about knobs or more head?
Suuuure, you don't have a webmaster...and this isn't a blog.
I like the suck/not suck idea. I may even do something more detailed, on a scale from 1 to 10, with perhaps ratings for different aspects such as scenery, points of interest, drive-ability, etc. Actually that sounds way to involved I think the electoral map would be easier and more visually pleasing. Rock on.
Once again I am behind, damn the man, blah, blah, blah. But Twin Knobs is just too much. I can't even begin to comment. lol to Andrew and the 1 knob out of 10. And I also agree w/ the suck or not suck. I don't need a statistical reading of scenery, points of interest, etc. Just give me some trivia, stat!
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