(one of multiple gorgeous mountain scenes we saw on the way to and from louisville)
Kt and i drove 9 1/2 hours (including an hour long detour to avoid a rock slide on i-40 that involved obtaining directions from a country gas station, passing through "luck, tennessee" -which incidentally is just a store on the side of the road- driving past hot springs, tennessee -a natural spa location since the 1800s?- and on never-ending winding roads up and down and around two mountains before making it back to i-40 having bypassed the rock slide) to louisville, kentucky for the monsters of folk concert at the louisville palace theatre on halloween night.
the trip was made epic
a) by the sheer absolutely illegality of it all (in terms of....forbidden by our parents-oops?)
b) by my ability to cut an hour and a half off of our trip by certain driving skills...
c) by the complete bright eyes discography played off Kt's ipod/new moon book on tape?
d) by the car bed
-put down the seats in the back of the car, both Kt and my's bedding spread out=CAR BED
the concert was epic because of
a) conor oberst. mike mogis. montgomery ward. jim james.
b) dancing neon robots and "that fuckin' rabbit" (okay....everyone who was in costume)
c) the lousiville palace theatre
d) monsters of folk rendition of "at the bottom of everything"
for the record....i'm in love with monsters of folk.
Kt and i also made the obligatory trip to whitecastle (burgers are in fact amazing...in an admittedly gross way, though), and spent an hour driving around louisville trying to find the university of louisville boathouse, and ended up sleeping in the car bed in a hotel parking lot. we woke up at 8 the next morning and drove another 8 hours back to clemson in time for me to shower before my 6pm freshmen athletes' etiquette dinner :)
(bridge we drove under on the detour around the rockslide on the way home
...i think this is a cool bridge/picture)
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