So to go see ZKAT, it's a 220 mile drive upstate. Takes about four hours, which is a longass time to be in a car, but it's a hell of a lot closer than San Diego, heh. The route below is the short way, which goes straight through the Adirondacks. It's sometimes a beast to get through in winter, but the long way is to take the Thruway (I-90, $5 or so) down to Albany, and then take the Northway (I-87) on up towards Zee Quebecois and their wonderful poutine.
It's a nice drive though, lots of trees, lakes, rivers, etc. We saw a moose once! (I tried to get a picture, but the flash was off because I didn't want to upset the very large moose, so it turned out blurry.) However, it's the boonies. And there are some weirdass things. I need to take the GPS with me and get a waypoint for the very large fishing guy or the house that has a boat through it, because I always forget where they're located along the route and can't get a picture.
This is an old picture, but rest assured, the town of Floyd, NY (Marker B, word!) is still very much for sale. Maybe the Goonies will be able to find another treasure so that they can buy it back. It should also be mentioned that I really, really love the town name. If I had lived here in high school, I'd have stolen their city limits sign and hung it next to the Wish You Were Here LP cover. But alas, the only city limits sign that I ever saw stolen was San Anselmo's, for a friend who was big into Pantera.
It's the best road sign in the world! It's currently not there because people are forever sliding around the turn and knocking it over, but it will be there again, mark my words!
This sign was posted right after the aforementioned turn. (Marker C on the map above, if you give a shit, haha. It was a happy accident that put the marker there.) It's really amusing mostly because it's in NY, not Ohio. Also, the picture was taken on the afternoon of the 20th, right around 4:00, heh.
This sign has always amused me. (Just after Marker D, pbbfft) Shiver me timbers, if my business were there, I'd be at work! Also, it's in a lakeside swampy tree marsh alongside a two-lane highway. It makes me giggle.
I didn't grab a picture of one, but I'm forever laughing about the signs that read "CAUTION SNOWPLOW TURNAROUND" simply because a little bit of punctuation turns it into a really weird Thomas the Tank Engine-esque warning. "CAUTION, SNOWPLOW! TURNAROUND!" is a lot funnier and cracks me up everytime. And there are approximately fourteen million of these signs along the way, so I'm pretty much giggling the whole time.
Will somebody buy me this? Please?
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