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Nov. 11th, 2003 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vintage_belleWisconsin is flat.
Not flatter than Ohio, no, but it's really damn flat. And quiet, and dark, and the road signs fuckin' suck. See, routes 29 and 51 run together for a while, but if you look at a map, you'll notice they suddenly split apart; route 29 goes east-west while 51 turns north-south. Normally, there wouldn't be a problem with that, but see, the people in Wisconsin decided that we don't need to know *when* these roads split from each other. So, when you're driving at 10 at night and it's raining, and you need to drive clear across the state, and you've been going steadily west and then suddenly you're going north ... it's not fun.
The Mall of America is fucking huge. And actually has some decent stores (ie: Hot Topic and a store called Icing). It's about the size of 16 football fields, I think, and has it's own indoor aquarium, kiddie theme park (called Camp Snoopy), and rollercoaster. Not bad, but certainly not overly impressive as everyone says it is.
Macalester, Beloit, and Lawrence are all very nice, very pretty, and decently liberal liberal arts colleges. The walls of the various Macalester art buildings had a lot of lefty political cartoons (which were very funny), which is surprising considering the area in which it is located. Best point about these places: They need signs proclaiming the banisment of guns from all premises. Seriously, the biggest "family" eating place in Beloit was called "The Gun Club" and had rifles all over the walls. There was even a bible radio station that we were getting at one point - interesting, to say the least.
oi oi!
Date: 2003-11-13 06:29 pm (UTC)