Eight Years Ago....

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I had just escaped from a place I was prone to describing as, "Not the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from my porch."

Holy Boondocksville, Batman.[1]

Zoom out to the 100km resolution, and you'll understand why; around 50km, you might actually start to see the names of cities you might recognize (Williamsport, PA). I mention this, because Google Maps has finally gotten something other than the thousand-foot resolution view of that area, and I was trying to describe exactly how far out into BFE I used to live to my boss.

I lived on a road without a name - it's just southeast of the nonexistent address depicted (#265 doesn't exist; my actual postal address was 114 Mitchell Hollow Road); Mitchell Hollow Road is 100% dirt, and what doesn't show up well in the satellite imaging is that it's almost straight up-hill. You can imagine how much fun that 90 degree left is during the winter months, or during spring melt.







[1] What aishlynn said when she first arrived at the nearest McDonald's, about 8 miles away, after I told her to meet me there rather than try to find my place unaided.

Comments

[the-sadist.livejournal.com]

That's funny to me, due to the fact that I have been testing E911 service in that area for the last month or so.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

My condolences if you have to be on-site.

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

What the fuck were you doing out in the hinterlands of Appalachia? It doesn't seem like a real goth hot spot, ya dig? Seems more like a place where camoflauged militias run around all night protecting their rights and people stay up all night wondering why their family tree has so few branhes.

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

No no no, you don't get it. That's where the real Goth Revolution will begin.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I worked there for three years.

It sucked.

[mighty-man.livejournal.com]

Hrumph, you gave me directions and I made it ok...more than once.

So which one is yours? I just remembered that you lived over a detached garage (maybe the one next to the house with two white vehicles in the driveway?). And where's that deer-attracting tree? I think I put a tent up underneath it at the Madness on the Mountain party.

Man, seems longer than 8 years to me.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Yep, you picked it out - the garage with the two drive tracks approaching from the east. The tree is the one to the northeast, towards the driveway leading to the houses to the WNW.

10/97-11/00.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

I worked out there in 2000-2001, doing environmental site assessments for cell phone tower locations. Up & down Routes 15, 220, 948....

I also had the most terrifying experience of my life out in the Pennsylvania hinterlands, when a couple of locals took exception to the rainbow sticker on my car. They didn't actually hurt me, but they scared the daylights out of me.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

There is a restaurant and bar at the junction of 6 & 44, next to the gas station. It's the only establishment I've ever been asked to leave, because one of the redneck locals was giving me a hard time, and when he went to the can, the guy working there suggested if I was smart, I'd get out of there.

He (the guy working) met me in the parking lot and gave me back what I'd paid for my dinner.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

But hey, you were close to a town (bend in the road) named Odin. That's pretty cool.