Hope Springs – Holiday USA

Yes, it does. Today we drove through the weird wilds of mid western Ohio. Very surreal stuff it must said, i felt like i was in some b-grade american movie where KKK sherifs ruled the town and the local equivalent of the mafia are a bunch of inbred hillbilles riding utes and cooking up mischief in the lab back at the farm.

The houses by and large looked run down, weather board mostly, all sort of bunched up and two stories the way American houses tend to be. There's not a single storey brick veneer in sight. The frayed lawns complimented the frayed houses, the frayed looking people, but were in contrast to the shiny new cars, well utes mostly, and by utes i mean big half truck things that were dreaming of growing up to be monster trucks.

There was a festival going on, or about to be going on, in one small town, hmm don't remember the name, half the town had turned out their sheds for garage sales... er thats yard sales here... there was BBQ corn a cooking, and a big sign saying God Save the Children. Lots of stalls with hand crafts, nic knacks, fried things and white bread. Sadly they didn't have a supermarket - we were on a mission for something not involving white bread and hot oil, but we managed to get out of there by promising that if we came across anyone thinking of opening a supermarket, we'd tell them to open it in that town, whatever it's name was.