Staff has fielded way more than one call this week demanding that we throw our hat (and cape for chrissakes) into the presidential sweepstakes. Such a hue and cry we cannot in good patriotic conscience ignore! So we—all of us, management, staff and
hounds—piled into the corporate jitney for our official Hmm Let’s Think It Over Tour of America, Part One.
If you break it down by weight, America is so much more than people. We have rocks and grass and used cars with moderate body damage and dirt and old buildings and space and noise and quiet and of course microbes. So our Hmm Let’s Think It Over Tour is more of a Big Howdy to the General Substrate than it is your ordinary glad-handing bustle through Iowa.
The birthplace of dead musicians and Woodrow Wilson, too.
"Demolition Derby is a motorsport usually presented at county fairs and festivals. While rules vary from event to event, the typical Demolition Derby event consists of five or more drivers competing by deliberately ramming their vehicles into one another." Thanks, Wikipedia!
Pre-Demo Warm-up & Show-Off Extravaganza.
Enthused Used Car Athleticism in Action.
New Harmony, Indiana, where the original utopian urge from 1814 amazingly continues to thrive in its third century. The Roofless Church: An architectural monument designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson.
Wikipedia Friday Favorite: In honor of the intersection of curiosity and logarithmically expanding human knowledge, we offer a weekly favorite obscure Wikipedia page.
Thanks to tons of steel, concrete, and defensive driving.
Why H? Then again, Y Not? Osage County, Missouri
The governor’s mansion in the state capitol whose name is known only by people who have been there.*
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. Chase County, Kansas. It speaks for itself with nary a word.
Ness City, Kansas.
Coastal Elites got nothin’ on us.
Wichita County Kansas. Typical traffic situation. Passing lane wide open when you’ll never use it.
The Front Range of the Rockies looms from fifty miles away.
Promises of mountain magic in Bent County, Colorado.
Magic delivered at over 10,000 feet. Wolf Creek Pass, Mineral County, Colorado.
Ahhh in Durango.
Fictionary Friday: Words You Need. Whether you know it or not.
Autobond(aw toe bond) Noun: A roads scholar. In a sentence:The Full Bright doctoral thesis explored by autobond candidate Miles MacAdam concluded that all roads lead to somewhere else.
Fizzdom Friday: from our collection of favorite quotes.
"Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather, it’s the road that is crossing the forest. " – Mohammed Ali
* Write if you do or do not know the capital of Missouri.
