Off the Beaten Path
(Insert really pretty picture of Missouri farmland that I couldn't get to load)
This evening, the weather was soo nice and I just wanted to get out of the house and drive around with my windows rolled down and my radio turned up. I really had no particular place to go, no agenda in mind, I was just content and starting to feel the heavy load that has been on my shoulders at work slowly lifting away. I remember as i was driving around that I wanted to read a book I had read about in a magazine while at the dentist's office so I detoured my car to Hastings to find the book. I love bookstores. I could spend hours upon hours looking around. When i first walked in, i immediately saw the book on the front shelf, in a hardback with all the other new releases. Crap. it means it will be really expensive so i longingly read the inside cover of the book, threw a disgusted look at the $25.00 price tag and placed it back on the shelf and continued my journey deeper into the bookstore, now just wandering aimlessly. I saw books on Hawaii travel, history books, baby books, and Christian romance novels. I was a little embarrassed looking in the self-help section, although I'm not sure why. I was actually looking for books for some of my parents at the facility. So anyways, I'm wondering around the bookstore, on my way out when i come across the kiosk with books about Missouri and traveling Missouri. I found one called Off the Beaten Path-Missouri and as I got to looking at it, got more and more excited. I was suddenly struck with a great idea for Dan and I. Lately the distance has been weighing on us both, with me being really stressed out at work and him being ready to be finished with school, it has been difficult not being able to be around each other. SO i got this brilliant idea when I saw this book that Dan and I could take a Saturday or Sunday every three weeks between me being on call and him studying, we could choose a random place in the book and go on a mini daytrip to explore the inner workings of Missouri. I bet you never knew there was a half-scale replica of Stonehenge, complete with an Anasazi solar calendar. Needless to say, Dan was ecstatic. He is always trying to get me to be more adventurous and spontaneous! We are going to alternate picking a place out of the book and begin to explore Missouri. I think my first stop will be the Union Covered Bridge, near Paris Missouri. It's theonly Burr-arch covered bridge left in the state. It's 125 ft long and 17 1/2 foot whide bridge built in 1871. It sounds like a good place to pack a picinic and stop at an Amish home on the way back for some homemade cinnamon rolls.
This evening, the weather was soo nice and I just wanted to get out of the house and drive around with my windows rolled down and my radio turned up. I really had no particular place to go, no agenda in mind, I was just content and starting to feel the heavy load that has been on my shoulders at work slowly lifting away. I remember as i was driving around that I wanted to read a book I had read about in a magazine while at the dentist's office so I detoured my car to Hastings to find the book. I love bookstores. I could spend hours upon hours looking around. When i first walked in, i immediately saw the book on the front shelf, in a hardback with all the other new releases. Crap. it means it will be really expensive so i longingly read the inside cover of the book, threw a disgusted look at the $25.00 price tag and placed it back on the shelf and continued my journey deeper into the bookstore, now just wandering aimlessly. I saw books on Hawaii travel, history books, baby books, and Christian romance novels. I was a little embarrassed looking in the self-help section, although I'm not sure why. I was actually looking for books for some of my parents at the facility. So anyways, I'm wondering around the bookstore, on my way out when i come across the kiosk with books about Missouri and traveling Missouri. I found one called Off the Beaten Path-Missouri and as I got to looking at it, got more and more excited. I was suddenly struck with a great idea for Dan and I. Lately the distance has been weighing on us both, with me being really stressed out at work and him being ready to be finished with school, it has been difficult not being able to be around each other. SO i got this brilliant idea when I saw this book that Dan and I could take a Saturday or Sunday every three weeks between me being on call and him studying, we could choose a random place in the book and go on a mini daytrip to explore the inner workings of Missouri. I bet you never knew there was a half-scale replica of Stonehenge, complete with an Anasazi solar calendar. Needless to say, Dan was ecstatic. He is always trying to get me to be more adventurous and spontaneous! We are going to alternate picking a place out of the book and begin to explore Missouri. I think my first stop will be the Union Covered Bridge, near Paris Missouri. It's theonly Burr-arch covered bridge left in the state. It's 125 ft long and 17 1/2 foot whide bridge built in 1871. It sounds like a good place to pack a picinic and stop at an Amish home on the way back for some homemade cinnamon rolls.
posted by Sam at 10:19 PM
2 Comments:
ROCK ON
dan
see, love...i'm not entirely sure why you thought that post was funny...you are very silly
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