Franklinsanity
A crank's musings on family, drink, travel, food & life
Category: Back Again 3
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9:20 am, Lynnville, Iowa – I feel it’s important to record some separate thoughts on long-distance driving, and the apparent general habits of different drivers in different states: Western Pennsylvania: these people are psychos. Interstates basically have two lanes each way. Folks in far West PA basically like to play chicken with each other –…
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9:03 am, near Brooklyn, Iowa…according to Google – and the Smithsonian – American barns are red because red paint is cheap, and red paint is cheap because it’s got iron oxide in it, and there’s a lot of that around because dying stars throw off a lot of the base components of that compound. These…
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