#ohio driving

[meara-eldestofthemall]

This is my late husband Mike's last gift to me. It arrived in the mail this afternoon. Well, I guess it's official. I am the oldest nerd in Ohio.

[agelessphotography]

Melody Drive-in, Springfield, Ohio, Steve Fitch, 1974

[thecryptidart1st]

I was gonna shit on Ohio this whole week and then this happened:

[masterandapprentice]

Car ride with Pato

I just love watching him drive, it's a real pleasure ❤️

[ofliterarynature]

Sometimes one must take oneself on walkies in the woods 😌

[clove-pinks]

Are you truly going to Ohio if it's not a rough journey through harsh territory? Travelling to a remote outpost at the end of the supply chain, braving the miasmic swamp and corduroy roads through the wilderness! The British may have seized Detroit, but they won't have such luck here.

I try to remind myself that I'm getting it very easy with five hours of driving tomorrow, but UGH five hours of driving. 😭

[shark-myths]

2ourdust ready

[knowlesian]

gonna snap one day and run through the halls of media critique screaming A PLOTHOLE IS NOT WHEN THERE IS AN EASILY EXTRAPOLATED AND OBVIOUS ANSWER TO A QUESTION THAT THE WRITERS DID NOT THINK EVEN NEEDED TO BE EXPLAINED OUT LOUD BECAUSE THEY EXPECTED YOU TO USE YOUR BRAIN JUST A L I T T L E

[kittieshauntedourfantasy]

In case anybody didn't know, underlined names in my posts about The Contemporary's RTC production are links! I only have four songs that I recorded (TSIA and Talia are combined into an audio), but that's better than nothing, right?

My friend and I can be heard yapping in some of these, but I did the best I could to capture the experience lol

[bianchiblue]

She bears poetry

like clouds tattooed all over

this Ohio sky

[starry-eyed-butch]

I meant to put this with the one earlier but I liked it too.

[agelessphotography]

Dixie Cruise-in, near Franklin, Ohio, Steve Fitch, 1974

[malkon-dova]

finished driving home after being on the road for 19 hours

[mrvelocipede]

Have successfully seen the total eclipse. It was amazing.

I couldn't resist trying to take a picture, even though I knew it wouldn't be any good. And it isn't, but Venus and Jupiter are visible in it, so that part is cool.

[fieriframes]

[So, I live in northern California, but I was born here in Columbus, Ohio, and hello, hello there, is this Martha yet, this is old Tom Frost. And I am calling long distance yet?]

[clove-pinks]

Where I live now is about eight miles from Fort Meigs, and I think a lot about how this area would be part of the last stretch of desolate wilderness for soldiers approaching the armed camp on the Maumee River over land. Eight miles could potentially take a long time—I read something about the baggage train breaking down every mile, the conditions were just that bad. Water and mud could be waist-deep.

There are literally thousands of miles of drainage ditches and many thousands of miles of underdrainage pipes today, and I have nice paved roads and other modern amenities. But the sense of desolation remains. It feels very isolated in this semi-rural neighborhood even though there are a few nice restaurants about two miles away, and stores and shops in a similar distance. I look forward to (hopefully) moving into more of a town environment. There are still stretches of what looks like marshland on my way to work, and water sits on the fields around me.