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Tuesday, June 10, 2003 So, yesterday we went on an outing...we got up and drove a pretty long way, out into Ohio and back. It was rather lovely...we didn't stop much (The Steak and Shake, which rocks...expensive hamburgers, but very good since they're made with, like, real meat.) I got to go on the Sistersville (West Virginia) Ferry....it's how we crossed the Ohio River. It was the coolest thing...it's only a couple of years old. You drive onto the flat bed platform, and when it takes off from shire it sort of drifts a little as the cab, which is this tall tug boat like thing attached to the side pivots around to face the proper direction. It's not cable propelled like the Fredericktown Ferry, and seeing it pivot around like that is too cool. (It used to be a cable driven ferry, at least on the Sistersville side you can see the huge well, with a bit of metal cable still wrapped around it. You know me and water...God, I love water, and so I felt really good after that. Sometimes long drives can get you feeling beat up, but the Ferry made it all so much better. We passed a High School names...Long Drain. Is that not the most appropriate name for a HS? We also passed (this is in order of memory, not happening) a place called Lore City, or at least the exit for it. I desperately wanted to get off at that exit...but I would have probably been terribly heart broken when I realized that it was just a sad, not as rich as it once was town, and not a place where goblins played in the shadows of the gas pumps, or tall, slender men with hair like platinum and fingers of quicksilver crossing the street on their way to libraries with hidden doors. There were also...sort of...I don't know, found art? Like the yard I passed with a male mannequin, just the torso and head stuck on a stick...or the strange, spooky bright yellow school bus, filled with colored objects that, at least passing it at 55, look like the bright coats of children...but the grass around the wheels is high, and if they are children, then they are very, very late getting home.... And that was my trip. Suffered some major house envy, saw some really nifty things. Permalink Cindy scribed this at 10:02 PM 0 comments |