So, we've taken a look at major cities, and seen a lot of farmland so far. I even have a highlight reel going. Wisconsin, unfortunately for whoever cares about this state, has not made it into the final cut.
It's not that it's not beautiful- it is. Fields of grass and soy and corn stretching for miles, swaying in the breeze. Then it looks like an ocean of green, the light hitting the underside of the plants just right so it looks like they're trying to make white caps- white caps only come in twenty plus mile headwinds.
Oh, and no one told us ONLY southern Wisconsin was hilly. Apparently the rest of the state is like a fine piece of china, weathered smooth by millions of years of being buried under the deepest ocean. Oh no, southern Wisconsin is like an amoeba trying to crawl over an acne-stricken fifteen year old's face.
Okay. So anyway. We'll go with a highlight reel.
-There was a little boy at one of the gas stations we stopped off at along the Canalway Trail. He asked us where we were going, and we told him Seattle, to which he responded "Is that going to take like, the whole day?"
-The adorable couple we met in Port Dover, and how, when prompted by two 40+ year old women asking if our butts were firm, the husband shouted to them "Get back in your cages, ya cougars." We still quote that.
-"..tonight's your night."
-"Did you just say let's launch over it?"
-"You guys want orange juice and beer for breakfast?"
-While passing through Ontario, we were accosted by a rather large dog who didn't appreciate us passing in front of his lawn. He starts tearing towards Reed, who had just passed the dog's line of attack, when I see the dog eat a faceplant into the embankment he was almost clear of, and his body twist around. He walks back across the lawn, dejected, while the three of us share a hearty laugh.
-Waking up in Rodney to find that we were sleeping in the middle of a harness track.
-All of Ypsilanti
-All of Chicago
-"Are those almonds?"
-"Hey Kevin, you ever tried to eat a road flare?"
-"You wanna come with us?"
-"..we DO have peanutbutter."
I'm at a loss. Ask questions and I'll answer them!
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There's soy in Wisconsin? I've lived there all my life minus time at school, and no one ever told me that. And it's not like they don't talk about their farm produce. It's all they talk about, in fact, including the history of their farm produce, and their embittered state due to California's recent usurpation of the title of state producing the most dairy. But soy?
I was surprised as well. We saw the crop all throughout Canada, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and finally in Iowa we found out what it was- soy.
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