country trekking
just finished reading through painted deserts. it's a roadtrip book about a couple of buddies who take a VW bus from Houston to the grand canyon and then up to portland and they stay there. i felt i could relate to a lot of their experience. mainly: it's really hot, but the scenery goes from boring to breathtaking once you enter new mexico.
it's hard to believe it's been pretty much a year since my dad and i drove out to L.A. from atlanta. no AC, no cds-lots of quality time and we learned a lot about each other over the 2000 miles or so.
so a bunch of us are driving up north to various new england quaintness and big NY and Boston-ness. i'm literally shaking, i'm so excited-partially because i've only had coffee today. finishing through painted deserts and then realizing that it's been a year since the L.A. trip has made me anxious to leave, get out, get moving, and so forth.
and on that note, since i'm still stuck answering phones at work and have not much else to do, i've come to some realizations about what i want out of life-geographically speaking. i remember growing up and throughout highschool always wanting to get the hell out of the south and to live up north or in europe-the big city, or whatever. living in carnesville, i just had an awful view of the south. uneducated, sloppy, unfriendly(yeah, i know), racist, any stereotypes you can think of were perpetuated in my mind during my time in carnesville. to an extent, i still think of carnesville that way. of course there were exceptions, great friendly people who became great friends to my parents. but the exceptions sad to say were, and still are, few.
growing up in gwinnett, most people were southern, but not really southern. my dad's family up in east TN was the only exposure i had to quality, well-educated, and well-spoken southern "folk."
but through my time in athens and through close friends hailing from different areas of TN-Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, and of course my Brett family from Commerce, I've come to appreciate and embrace the south as the place where i eventually want to settle down. getting to know the amazing athens southern folk/rock and bluegrass scene as well as getting my feet wet in the Southern Gothic music culture, and meeting these people has been amazing.
so whatever happens, i eventually want to live here in the south.
eventually.
i still plan to have my big city and euro adventures first.
it's hard to believe it's been pretty much a year since my dad and i drove out to L.A. from atlanta. no AC, no cds-lots of quality time and we learned a lot about each other over the 2000 miles or so.
so a bunch of us are driving up north to various new england quaintness and big NY and Boston-ness. i'm literally shaking, i'm so excited-partially because i've only had coffee today. finishing through painted deserts and then realizing that it's been a year since the L.A. trip has made me anxious to leave, get out, get moving, and so forth.
and on that note, since i'm still stuck answering phones at work and have not much else to do, i've come to some realizations about what i want out of life-geographically speaking. i remember growing up and throughout highschool always wanting to get the hell out of the south and to live up north or in europe-the big city, or whatever. living in carnesville, i just had an awful view of the south. uneducated, sloppy, unfriendly(yeah, i know), racist, any stereotypes you can think of were perpetuated in my mind during my time in carnesville. to an extent, i still think of carnesville that way. of course there were exceptions, great friendly people who became great friends to my parents. but the exceptions sad to say were, and still are, few.
growing up in gwinnett, most people were southern, but not really southern. my dad's family up in east TN was the only exposure i had to quality, well-educated, and well-spoken southern "folk."
but through my time in athens and through close friends hailing from different areas of TN-Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, and of course my Brett family from Commerce, I've come to appreciate and embrace the south as the place where i eventually want to settle down. getting to know the amazing athens southern folk/rock and bluegrass scene as well as getting my feet wet in the Southern Gothic music culture, and meeting these people has been amazing.
so whatever happens, i eventually want to live here in the south.
eventually.
i still plan to have my big city and euro adventures first.
posted by Ethan at 9:30 AM
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