• @squishable wish i could be there to keep you two and the squishies company! xo #
  • up way too late for someone who has an 8 hour drive ahead of her in the morning. #
  • drama in montana! rv bursts into flames right before surprised campers eyes. #
  • @smartksmart i confess a weakness for pink lemonade myself. although whether or not i am adult is admittedly arguable. #
  • feeling my age today. #
  • @mayam if there’s room can i add ‘the cows will forever mourn her absence’…? #
  • @smartksmart awwww! wish you were in montana! the sky doesn’t seem that big without you here. #
  • @sonaar pray tell, what is thing theory? #
  • first day of just hanging out. no driving, no sight-seeing. just catching up on reading and missing itpeeps. #
  • OMG why did no one tell me about the giant prairie dog in SD?! eh, @tszetela? http://twitpic.com/9ybfk #
  • at the amazing occidental hotel saloon drinking a giant gin & tonic. happy now. http://twitpic.com/9ybq7 #
  • i can haz bison burger now? (i’m really not a vegetarian anymore, am i.) http://twitpic.com/9yeo1 #
  • apparently i like listening to country music, in context (in a restored old west saloon in wyoming). the gin helps too. #
  • i was going to write a roadkill lament yesterday, about how i’d seen 3 dead deer in as many days… today i saw my 4th. #
  • going from sioux falls to rapid city today, sky:land went from 2:1 to 3:1. so much beautiful blue. #
  • going from MN to SD, i swear the proportion of sky:land went from 1:1 to 2:1. #
  • does SD know how to do a rest stop view or what! http://twitpic.com/9t548 #
  • today’s roadkill count: whole - deer x1, racoon x1. partial - bird x1. unidentifiable - creature that once had either fur or feathers x1. #
  • @KevinRuddPM tell them to look at how well we did with the olympics! #
  • @mayam ha! no; no tank driver, i. just chugging along in my compact car, amazed at the number and range of dead animals on the highways. #
  • couldn’t resist going to the mall of america today. people, it has not 1 but 3 rollercoasters in it. it’s an entire fucking theme park! #
  • MN is awesome pt. 1: world’s largest ball of twine made by 1 man http://twitpic.com/9m04q #
  • MN is awesome pt. 2: world’s largest booming prairie chicken http://twitpic.com/9m1o0 #
  • MN is awesome pt. 3: giant paul bunyan http://twitpic.com/9mpfz #
  • listen to music you like at volumes that would wake the dead.
  • put on the swingle singers and sing all the soprano parts; even the notes that you haven’t been able to reach since you were 18, in the choir, and before your pristine throat had ever been sullied by self-inflicted smoke.
  • dance (safely) to that daft punk album you’re currently addicted to. bop your head, wiggle your shoulders, shift your butt from side to side in your seat, or do any combination of the three. it doesn’t matter how ridiculous you look; you’re going at 70 miles an hour so even if someone is looking at you instead of the road in front of them, they’re not going to get time to remember your face. especially when you’re nodding your head like it’s about to fall off your neck.
  • learn german.
  • get into the (apparently) american road trip tradition of audiobooks. (thanks, zoe!)
  • giggle at the genius of douglas adams via the genius of stephen fry.
  • count roadkill.
  • @crackhead gah that may be the cutest puppy ever! #
  • @MeeshellM wait you’re in minneapolis? so am i! #
  • highway debris spotted on the way to minneapolis today: blown out tyres - 3 doz. approx.; roadkill - 6.5; cars in ditch, aflame - 1. #
  • @tymmothy you’d think so, right? the deer (whole, lying on its side, the poor dead thing) and the burning car were the most disconcerting. #
  • a&w isn’t as good as i remember from childhood. that is all. #