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[kippurbird]

Well, I'm back. As Sam would say.

And it feels good.

Some vacation highlights:

CORN!
SOYBEANS!
CORN!
SOYBEANS!
JESUS!
SOYBEANS!
CORN!
CORN!
CORN!
JESUS!
COWS!
CORN!
JESUS!
CORN!
SOYBEANS!

I met ranka who found my family insane but in a good way.
I brushed into John McCain.
Yes, that one.
No, really.
I swear.
Beer!
CORN!
JESUS!
SOYBEANS!
COWS!


More later when more coherent. With pictures!

Comments

[elegantelbow.livejournal.com]

I learned something really shocking at WorldCon: LKH and Sharon Shinn are in the same writing group. Man! Sharon Shinn can write gigantic circles around LKH without even getting out of bed.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

So you went to Iowa? ;)

(I kid, I kid. I live here and even I confess that your description would sum up a drive through this state very well.)

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, weird things like that happen.

Where was Worldcon this year?

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Actually, we were mostly in Missouri. But when in Iowa we couldn't really tell the difference.

It was at the Iowa State Fair when I ran into John McCain, or he almost ran into me.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's true - with a few areas of exception, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois do tend to blend into each other, with only a few rivers to break things up. Did you see the butter sculptures and sample some of the many varieties of fried food upon sticks at the fair?

[smurasaki.livejournal.com]

Heh. As a former Iowan, I agree with brainchild - that's a perfect description of Iowa (or any other midwestern state).

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I had a hard boiled egg on a stick but nothing fried. It frightened me and my poor Californian sensibilities.

McCain had pork on a stick.

I did not see the butter sculptures, but we could only spend a few hours at the fair so we didn't have time to look as much as we wanted to.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

My mom thought all the corn was wonderful and waxed on about how it used to be like that in Los Angeles, not with corn but with some other crops, beans I think.

Still, despite the corn, Jesus, corn, soybeans and corn, we had a rather nice trip out of it.