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popeye1250 -> My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 5:38:43 PM)
On Aug 11th I left Mytle Beachfor my first trip back to New England in five years, ever since I moved here. I was anxious and excited to see my neice and nephew who are now 19 and 22. I left Myrtle Beach at 2100 hrs (9p.m.) on rt 501 and headed the big Lincoln North on Rt 95 at "South of the Border". I wanted to take a differant way instead of rt 95 all the way up through Washington, Baltimore, New Jersy, New York and Conn. Too much traffic and not a "pretty" drive at all. So when I hit Richmond after 1 am I went West on rt 64 to hook up with rt 81. Man, it was dark, there were lots of deer on the side of the road and, I was driving through Virignia, "speeding ticket country." (Va. Trooper pulls a redneck over for speeding, "Got any I.D.?" Says the redneck, " 'Bout whaaaat?") Anyway at about 2 am I start seeing signs for "Goochland County." And I start laughing. GOOCHLAND? WTF is that?" Being all alone and having no company save for the jazz station on sirius radio I start ad-libbing; "Hey Man, you fucked up, we're going to send you to GOOCHLAND!" "Oh no! Not GOOCHLAND!" Then another sign, "Goochville!" I'm like; "who the FUCK would come up with a name like that?" "Had to be those Scots-Irish moonshiners hundreds of years ago!" "Hi I'm Gus Gooch and these are my brothers Greg Gooch and Gary Gooch." A few hours later I'm in Staunton, Va. and headed North on rt 81 and it starts to get light out and I'm in the Shenandoah Valey and it's real 'purty. I'm still keeping the speed down though until I get into a corner of West "By God" Virginia and they're passing me doing 80 and 90 mph! Then aout 30 minutes of Maryland and finally I get to Southern Pa. and it's very pictursque. Lots of spectacular scenery, they seem to sculpt the corn right into the hills there. Lots of farms and tractors, German sounding names I put the windows down to get a good wiff of that cowshit smell that you always get driving through agricultural states. I was thinking to myself what things would have been like had I been born on a farm in Penn. instead of Boston, Mass. And of course being a guy I started getting visions of "Daisey Mae" girls in incredable shape from farm work and of course wearing cut-offs so tight that you'd really have to struggle to get them off and them being ever so obliging of course! ("When I was seventeen,...it was a verrrr....ee good year,..... pennsylvania farm girls in barns who'd show me their rears, with smiles on their faces,.......... their fathers would catch us,......I never knew I could run-so fast,.......... I lost my clothes again,.... when I was seventeen.") Plenty of cities and towns in valleys with church steeples, Lancaster, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, York, Reading, very pretty! The more Northern part before Binghamton is more mountainous like N.Y. State. Next, New York.

windchymes -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 5:43:45 PM)
popeye, glad to hear you're feeling better!

fluffypet61 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 5:56:57 PM)
i've driven some of those same roads going from southern West "by God" Virginia to Philly. It is nice countryside. i'm glad you had a good trip and are feeling up to it..

Aileen1968 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 6:39:57 PM)
You should have emailed me....would have met you somewhere in Pa for a drink. Rte 81 is beautiful going through Shenandoah. I took that route down to Myrtle Beach on advice from my dad.

servantforuse -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 6:42:34 PM)
My sister had lived in New Hampshire and is now in Vermont. I have been out that way 2 times. I could never live in a state that has no taverns. You have to go to a restaurant to have a beer. Boston was great but glad to get back to Milwaukee. Taverns where ever you look.

popeye1250 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 7:09:32 PM)
Thanks guys, yeah, I'm doing much better now! I'm even thinking about starting back at the gym next week albeit slowly. New York Sate highways are even worse than Va. fo cops and tickets. I was on rt 88 from Binghamton to Albany and I saw five (5) Troopers giving tickets! I set the speed control for one mile under the limit! "Revenue enhancement." Then, I got to the Mass Pike. The first Toll Booth I came t I asked the lady; "So who's sister-in-law are you?" She just looked at me. lol You have to "know" someone to get one of those "hack" jobs that probably pay $80k a year for making change! And finally I arrived at my sister's house at 4 P.M. "Welcome to New Hampshire- Live Free or Die." I forgot about the humidity in New England! It's much worse than here in Myrtle Beach. And my niece Katie who turned 19 while I was there is an absolutely stunning young woman. She has a real doll face and a husky woman voice on her and an athlete's body from playing sports all her life. Oh, and a foul sailor mouth on her just like her uncle! She starts her sophamore year at U. Maine Orono and wants to be a physical therapist or something like that. Her brother Pat is in his last year at U.N.H. and he's doing something in International Studies but I'm trying to talk him into going into the Coast Guard as an officer. He loves the Lincoln, he had it up to 90! And my sister has put on some weight, he promised me she'd join the gym. She's an x-ray teck and was telling us that she x-rayed two famous people when she worked at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston, Arthur Feidler and, ...Eric Clapton. She said he was on tour and had kidney stones back in the late 70's. (Derek and the Dominos?) Now she does mostly mamograms and doesn't have to go into the O.R. hardly anymore unless someone calls in sick. She said, "The call me the Booby Smasher!" I visited a friend of mine in Hampton who is the manager of a large apartment complex. I was talking to his secretary and saw this wierd looking kid outside with a lot of tattoos. I asked her who he was and she said; "Oh God, him!" She said that three or four months earlier he was cleaning a gun and the idiot shot himself in the leg and came running down to the office bleeding all over the place and that my buddy Gary told him to get out of the office and wait for the ambulance outside that he just called. So, she tells me, "Tom, about three weeks ago that kid comes down to the office and said he's an epileptic and has a splitting headache and that it's killing him and could we call the ambulance." "So, the ambulance shows up and they ask him whats up and how bad does it hurt." The kid says it hurts REALLY bad!!!" The EMT asks him on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad is the pain?" "The kid says IT HURTS REALLY FUCKIN BAD!!!" "The EMT says Ok, does it hurt as bad AS WHEN YOU SHOT YOURSELF IN THE LEG?" Always something happening at that place!

ShaharThorne -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 7:22:08 PM)
You know its bad when the paramedics recnogize you when you call them up for fainting and 24 hour vomiting. Its when they tell you that you're so pale that you look like a ghost and got the IV ready just before loading you up in the bus that its worse...

cpK69 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 7:28:48 PM)
Reminds me of my trip back from TN; I cried when I started seeing signs for Troy NY… ahead!!! The leaves have started changing late this year. Spring just barely ended; right on time for the fall rain storms. I had someone put the A/C in only last week; hadn’t been that humid till then. I wonder what this will do for flood season. We are waiting for the old mica mill, sitting alone the river, to fall… any day nooooow. Glad you made it home! Kim

popeye1250 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 7:46:37 PM)
When Pat and Katie were younger I'd put them in the back of my p/u truck with a cap on it and take them out for a physics lesson. I'd put a bunch of pillows and sleeping bags in it so they wouldn't get banged up too bad then floor it and they'd go flying backwards, then at about 45 mph I'd slam on the brakes and they'd go tumbling ass over teakettle into the front of the truck bed laughing their little asss off! One time when I let them out my little neice Katie said, "Thanks for the HELLRIDE uncle Tommy!" So they became "hell rides" after that. We were still laughing about that and they remembered them very well! My sister calls me "Uncle Buck."

cpK69 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 7:59:54 PM)
Sounds like a blast!... fond memories. [:)] Kim

MichiganHeadmast -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 8:29:23 PM)
New England is awesome just about anywhere you go. It would be nice to be there mid-October! (Well, except for the crowds).

PirateAndMonkey -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 10:13:51 PM)
Glad you're feeling better, Popeye! Sounds like an awesome trip :) I love that drive that you described... (kinda makes me miss driving truck... KINDA...LOL). I havent been to New England in YEARS. I used to go to summer camp in NH (Camp Onaway) BEautiful. Lived in Western MA for a while too, and Hartford for a brief time. I do miss the Colors.

popeye1250 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/27/2009 11:41:23 PM)
Yeah, New England is nice in the summer. I took a ride up to Damriscotta Lake in Maine where my brother has a camp and his wife and kids stay there all summer. A pop-up camper and the kids sleep in a tent. Community showers and terlets. "Roughing it!" My brother is a Lt. on a fire dept in the Boston area and drives down to work then back up to Maine when his shift is done. One 24 hour shift, 24 hours off then another 24 hour shift then 5 days off! They asked me if I wanted to stay the night, I said "no thankyou." The lake is beautiful. We took a ride on his boat and rendevoused with a camp neighbor and her three little girls.Turns out her husband is still in the Coast Guard and she knew a lot of people I knew. I left at 4 pm. back to my sister's house in Hampton, N.H. leaving my poor brother with two cackling women and five little girls. I like Sebago lake better though, warmer water. Lots of mony going there now though. There's nothing like the lakes in Maine in the summer! Boating and swimming during the day, cookouts, campfires and story telling at night. And they all seem to have a "girl's and boy's camps" there too. It was always fun boating by the girl's camp an going to a beach an grounding the boat and going swimming.

Vendaval -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 3:46:04 AM)
It is always a pleasure to hear about your travels and adventures. Glad you are recovering and back to your old pranks and jokes. [:D]

Level -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 3:55:52 AM)
I agree with Vendaval; great stories, Popeye. Any pics of your niece? [8D]

popeye1250 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 9:19:04 AM)
Well thanks guys! Glad you enjoy them. My sister and I went to this little greasy spoon restaurant for breakfast that we used to go to a lot when I lived there in Hampton, N.H. The owner is a German lady named "Ute" with a thick German accent and a foul mouth who won't take any shit from the commercial fishermen, cops and lobstermen who come in at 5 a.m. much less anyone else. One time a tourist lady came in and asked where she could get some crabs. Ute told her in a booming voice, "On any toil-ed seet on de beach!" When they ask her for directions she sends them in a circle so that they end up right back at her place! "Vat? I just gave directions to your stupid twin!" It's hillarious! Always a floor show when you go in there. And she makes these enoumous omlets and pancakes that you need a pizza pan to put them on for the kids. If you can eat one of those pancakes it's free. There's a big cement block with a pair of workboots embedded in it up front, "For the people who don't want to pay!" And all kinds of funny bumperstickers on the wall behind he counter.

popeye1250 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 9:22:35 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Aileen1968 You should have emailed me....would have met you somewhere in Pa for a drink. Rte 81 is beautiful going through Shenandoah. I took that route down to Myrtle Beach on advice from my dad. Aileen, I can't get into your profile. Next time you guys come to Myrtle Beach let me know and I can meet you guys somewhere for a drink!

ShaharThorne -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 9:55:14 AM)
I forsee a lot of traveling in the future for myself and it not to Dallas and Austin. Houston maybe...[:D]

MsFlutter -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 10:46:45 AM)
<grumble> cant beLIEVE you didnt let me know you'd be coming thru Maryland !!

popeye1250 -> RE: My Trip to New England. (8/28/2009 11:03:19 AM)
MsFlutter, I was in far Western Maryland. Ok, ROAD TRIP! I'm off to Savanah, Ga to pick up some lottery tickets for tonight's big Mega Millions drawing of $325 MILLION! They say that lump sum cash after taxes will be $205 million! Hooo...eeee! Can you say "Popeye's Slave Harem?" About 3-4 hours South of here and not a bad ride. Maybe I'll stop and get some peach cider from one of those roaside stands.

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