studionumbernine.com – steve benoit, experience architecture

well, we made it. landing safely in the bay state around 7:30 on the 26th.

waking up 20 minutes or so from niagra falls was awesome.

walking out into a side-ways rainstorm was less awesome, so we decided to just hot-foot it towards massachusetts.

a few things learned crossing the country:

• i’d immediately go back to: omaha, deadwood and yellowstone.
• i wouldn’t go back to but am glad i saw: custer state park, the badlands, s.e. oregon
• i won’t go back unless paid to: idaho
• surprisingly enough, the best part of the drive was cruising through northern nebraska on route 20. no construction, no traffic, no speed traps.
• the worst part of the drive: highway 90 from NY to Mass. construction everywhere, costs a fortune (paid tolls twice in 3 miles) and the drivers are as you’d expect them to be in NY and Mass. keep your head on a swivel.
• neely loooooves livestock.
• cole is a bit of an exhibitionist
• gas is expensive everywhere
• candy can make the difference between misery and happiness
• cheap hotels are no longer cheap
• benoit is pronounced differently everywhere
• chicago has too many people in it (says larry the valet)
• sitting in the front of a cruiser is kinda fun, i can see why cops like it
• cops that laugh while giving you a ticket are worse than cops that are @holes while giving you a ticket
• music is my muse and broadcast radio (for the most part) sucks beyond all comprehension
• i’m completely dependent on my iphone, damn it.
• my iphone doesn’t work well as a phone
• i’ll most likely fly everywhere i go outside of new england from now on

soon to come OVER HERE (well relatively soon anyway) will be a whole buncha more pics from the trip. for now here’s a few i’ve gotten to:

*** a note on the playlists you’ve seen here: i’ll be putting them up for download as soon as i get a chance. stay tuned. ***

local(e) listenings:
Oliver James – fleet foxes
Moving, shaking – great lake swimmers
Kentucky gambler – tom leach
One day at a time – 2Pac
Islands on the coast – band of horses
Spinning plates – radiohead
Make you crazy – Brett dennan
Trust me – the fray

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