Saturday, July 30, 2005

Connecticut: A Catalog of Thrills

If you are ever wondering what to do for fun in CT, stop. There's no point. I have confirmation of my observations from an independent source, Roadside America (a wonderful website btw).
The first paragraph on the site for Connecticut starts "Connecticut is an overdeveloped, overtaxed state crawling with rich people who've forgotten how to have fun."

My sister would add they have also forgotten how to mark a detour, leading you off the main road and then abandoning you in some network of winding country lanes and paths that confound any reasonable sense of direction. Think you're headed north? Think again. East? Probably not. You can practically hear the banjos strumming and picking as you travel deeper and deeper into rural decay. Look, there's a farm...growing, um...used cars and trailer parts. And over here - a pond? Perhaps a long time ago. Now it' s just a stand of bare bleached tree trunks sprouting out of a spongey ground. You might pass a group of shiftless cows every so often, then just crumbling rock walls and single lane roads where the only cars you see are zig zagging down the middle at top speed.

Ah Connecticut. How I look forward to your memory.

1 comment:

cjblue said...

Yabbut, as long as YOU're in CT, there's fun to be had.