Travelling Meme

create your own personalized map of the USA or write about it on the open travel guide

Now obviously, I didn't include instances where I was just passing through on my way to another location; if I didn't spend a night or see some sight there, then it isn't listed.

For those of you who are really interested in the boring details of my life, I describe my travels in the extended entry below.

Idaho: My grandmother lives here, so we visit every coupla' years.

California: My uncle and his wife (and assorted cousins) live here. My brother also worked at a summer camp here, and we visited on his birthday.

Nevada: Frequent stopovers in Reno when we travel to California and Idaho; we've stayed in a hotel here at least once.

Utah: Frequent stopovers in Salt Lake City; also saw the Mormon Temple which is cool. We also met a guy who was witnessing for Christianity outside the Temple. He told us that he comes every year.

Texas: My other grandmother and step-grandfather (? Or is it grand-stepfather? Or just grandfather?) and assorted aunts, an uncle, and a cousin live here. So we visit every now and then. And we drive. From South Carolina. This is not a short drive.

Tennessee: Saw Chattanooga; liked the Tennessee Aquarium.

Alabama: I think my Dad, brother, and I went on a church camping trip here. This amused me, because Alabama (in Georgia) is the butt of all the stupid people jokes ("Pollack jokes" rewritten).

North Carolina: As a young child, visited Discovery Place, one of those "Fun Science" complexes. Pretty cool. Had a birthday party there where I received some really cool "Spy Tech" stuff, which they don't make anymore. Like a folding periscope and a irritating hypersensitive motion sensor. Let me tell you, you never have birthdays like you do when you're a little kid.

South Carolina: My home. When states are ranked, we're near the bottom in every good thing and near the top in every bad thing. And it's really hot. But it's nice anyways. Having your immediate family nearby does that to a place.

Georgia: Former home. Good riddance. Even hotter, in the middle of *nowhere*. About an hour from Atlanta. Half an hour from church. A little further from the mall. Had to be schooled by video, because there wasn't a good Christian school nearby and my parents were (wisely) unwilling to put my brother and I in a public school.

Florida: Visited Orlando's Sea World and Clearwater Christian College. CCC looks like a good school, but it was much cheaper to go to Bob Jones (LIFE scholarship and the ability to be a town student). Sea World was a lot of fun; my youngest brother and I got soaked by Shamu the whale.

New York and Washington D.C.: Visited on my Senior Trip. Best. Trip. Ever. I loved it. I threw a paper airplane off the Empire State Building, the place where they print money, the White House (the outside), Library of Congress, Smithsonian; it was so much fun. I only saw the outside of the White House because the President was giving a speech (security, I guess). So, we got to see that. We went through the metal detectors, stood in a big crowd outside, and noticed huge numbers of police officers, even more than you'd expect for a presidential speech. Turns out we had stumbled into a meeting for the Fraternal Order of Police (I think; working from memory), and the President was giving a speech honoring policemen who died in the line of duty during the previous year, especially those who died on 9/11. Later we found that it was supposed to only be open to police officers and their families. Whoops....

Places I would like to visit: Chicago, maybe Philadelphia. Also, I've never been out of the country, so it'd be interesting to visit Ireland or Scotland or something. Israel too, perhaps someday.

Posted by Blog Jones at May 25, 2004 11:21 PM | Category: Personal