Tuesday, February 7, 2017

On our way home....

Once again, sorry for the delay in posting.  It's taken a visit to the doctor for me, and three for my wife, to get to feeling better from whatever it was that we caught on this trip.   I guess it's fortunate that we got home without major issue...things could have been much more complicated!

We noted some unusual billboards along the freeway...on I-40 eastbound, after Nashville and before Knoxville, if I remember correctly.   Unfortunately there are no pictures...there was way too much traffic and too windy (in both instances) to pull over and walk back a quarter mile to get them.

First billboard was a picture of an automatic pistol (big enough to be plainly recognized as such), with the words "Man Toys" in huge letters.    Down the road a few miles, there was another billboard, in bright pink, with a target showing numerous bullet holes close to the bulls-eye, and slogan "Shoot like a girl."  Neither of us noticed if they were ads for the same gun supplier...

Sexist?  My take on them both is: probably.  YMMV.   But at least they covered each traditional gender equally.  I wouldn't expect them to tackle the rhetorical question:  "What about us?"

We also made one last sightseeing stop at a roadside oddity, to see one huge pencil which adorns an office supply store in Wytheville, VA (alongside I-81.)   One could fix a lot of mistakes with it, given the size of that eraser...


We were both glad to get home after this trip...

Till next time,

Mandy



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  1. Pat ScalesFebruary 7, 2017 at 8:22 AM

    Travel is nice but like Dorothy said in the Wizard of Oz, "There's no place like home".
    Speaking of the Wizard of Oz, the author, L. Frank Baum, from the ages of 12-14 spend two years at the Peekskill Military academy which was then up the hill from the Peekskill Train Station. Behind a row of stores adjacent to the station separating these old brick buildings from the station parking lot is a 50-75' X 25' wide stretch of old yellow bricks. The legend goes that when Baum got off the train in Peekskill he asked directions to the Military School and was pointed in the direction of the yellow brick road.

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    1. Mandy ShermanFebruary 8, 2017 at 9:39 AM

      You're so right about "no place like home."

      And I always wondered where the "yellow brick road" came from. Happiness is knowing that it really existed!

      Mandy

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  2. Pat ScalesFebruary 9, 2017 at 6:55 AM

    You should google 'Peekskill yellow brick road'

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    1. Mandy ShermanFebruary 11, 2017 at 3:05 AM

      I did, and it was fascinating to read the theory. It sounds quite plausible since it's still there, even though the author isn't.

      But other places probably claim that fame, too. And nobody will ever know for sure...

      Mandy

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