Aw, Brooks & Dunn... I have one of their albums... great honky-tonk music.
Oh, the Mississippi River is brown & muddy. And my brother used to live in Memphis, so I'm looking forward to Part 2 of your roadtrip. :)
Brenda | Homepage | Mon Apr 4, 2005 - 10:15 pm | #

Does Bertel also carry a cane and wear a top hat?
Curious | Homepage | Mon Apr 4, 2005 - 10:35 pm | #

Actually my mum used to dig those books. She tried to get me into them but I just couldn't be interested.

Anyway. Happy journeys.
Jessie | Homepage | Tue Apr 5, 2005 - 9:01 am | #

Maybe you should listen to Emmylou Harris's "Red Dirt Girl" as well...

"Nobody knows when she started her skid,
She was only 27 and she had five kids.
Coulda' been the whiskey,
Coulda been the pills,
Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill.
But there won't be a mention in the news of the world
About the life and the death of a red dirt girl
Names Lillian
Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian."
make tea not war | Homepage | Tue Apr 5, 2005 - 2:25 pm | #

I'm passing a book meme onto you
http://nzpoliticalcomments.blogs.../book- meme.html
Greg Stephens | Homepage | Wed Apr 6, 2005 - 12:45 pm | #

Ah, good ole Moominpapa. Those stories occupy a fond place in my childhood reading list - right up there with Swallows and Amazons and Trixie Belden. No really!
Yma | Wed Apr 6, 2005 - 1:19 pm | #

argh! no! I hate memes.

I'll get noizy to do it (much as he hates them as well) ...follow the thread on his blog...
natalie | Homepage | Wed Apr 6, 2005 - 1:37 pm | #

"when we stopped for occasional food, gas (as they say),"
What else would you call it?
Iridescent | Homepage | Wed Apr 6, 2005 - 7:30 pm | #

in nz 'gas' is called petrol.
natalie | Homepage | Wed Apr 6, 2005 - 7:59 pm | #

...and flatulence is called gas....
llew | Homepage | Thu Apr 7, 2005 - 10:56 am | #

thanks natalie!
Iridescent | Homepage | Thu Apr 7, 2005 - 2:08 pm | #

Shoulda taken the job, I work right upstairs from there in a basically similar role (same department).
Simon | Homepage | Fri Apr 8, 2005 - 6:31 pm | #

My brother likes to stop for "gas" on occasion.

Damn his rancid bowels!

S.x
The Saturnyne | Homepage | Sun Apr 10, 2005 - 2:50 am | #

don't leave home till you've seen the country.
demonsurfer | Homepage | Mon Apr 11, 2005 - 9:04 am | #

Rancid Bowels could be a good name for a band!
llew | Homepage | Mon Apr 11, 2005 - 10:07 am | #

wonder why they call petrol gas? Its a liquid after all. In NZ we use the word gas to descibe natural gas-- like in ovens, etc...wonder what they would call that in the US?

Anyway, have a nice trip
dom | Tue Apr 12, 2005 - 11:20 pm | #