Subject: sidney ia<br/>
Date: Oct 29, 2004 @ 18:07<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1369994185">have just been decompressing from all the recent loony eclipse fun <br/>
etc in st louis <br/>
by dead reckoning toward the greater iamone area here on back roads <br/>
which means mainly the lettered highways in missouri<br/>
<br/>
these offer a rare opportunity <br/>
equalled i think only by the byways of wisconsin<br/>
for trying to create words as you go<br/>
<br/>
it isnt as easy as it sounds<br/>
<br/>
rather like playing scrabble with an impossibly bad hand<br/>
plus <br/>
not being allowed to rearrange your tiles<br/>
<br/>
so far my longest word has been keno<br/>
<br/>
i know thats not too impressive yet<br/>
but at least it is the name of something else you can play if you <br/>
prefer<br/>
<br/>
i would like to try for a full sentence next<br/>
 <br/>
but make that next time around<br/>
as i have just emerged into iowa <br/>
where this rare literary opportunity no longer exists<br/>
<br/>
what they do have around here is a loess hills scenic byway<br/>
for back roading between riverton & i think akron<br/>
<br/>
& this has caught my fancy too<br/>
so long as the incredibly hard south wind seems to be blowing me <br/>
that way anyway<br/>
<br/>
if i got the story right<br/>
this long strip of western iowa has the only loess hills of any <br/>
significance anywhere outside of central asia<br/>
<br/>
i think the loess must be the smooth milk chocolaty stuff under all <br/>
this corn<br/>
<br/>
for more details & examples of the prevailing dreamscape<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/2187">http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/2187</a><br/>
<br/>
the only question is<br/>
will i blunder into any of the 34 tertiary megapoints of iowa by <br/>
going this way</div>