Getting Out There
Apr. 22nd, 2008 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotHey.
Decided to day-trip to Gatlinburg today. I hadn't been there in a long time and the weather was nice enough.
Not all that much has changed. One hotel being demolished (not Park Vista or Glenstone Inn--too shame); the Holiday Inn is now something else; Microtel is still Microtel (so as long as nobody looks too close at it I can still dangle a parking permit from Moonshine's windshield mirror bracket and park there). There's a Church of God convention at the main arena, so the sidewalks are busy with church elders from Alabama and Mississippi. At Star Cars, the plummeting Cadillac from Terminal Velocity (IIRC?) has been replaced with the Batman Returns Batmobile and the KITT out front was replaced with Anna Nicole Smith's Jaguar convertible.
I basically wandered the shops and malls.
Did most of my shopping at the Books Warehouse shop in the mall near the Aquarium. After poking around the music CDs, I came upon the pile of Baen hardback science-fiction novels...
Bought Echoes of Honor (which I have as an e-book but not in hardcopy), Crown of Slaves and The Shadow of Saganami--both of which I didn't have in ANY form.
Combined cover price: $75. I spent $11.
My need to get off this planet appears to trump any other desire.
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Meme from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
robby_bevard:
I'm with Robby, I'd probably leave the booze alone and go for something with caffeine and/or guarana. Like...
...This?
And I'd probably let Aaron Williams in without an ID. He's got a tab running with me.
FP
Decided to day-trip to Gatlinburg today. I hadn't been there in a long time and the weather was nice enough.
Not all that much has changed. One hotel being demolished (not Park Vista or Glenstone Inn--too shame); the Holiday Inn is now something else; Microtel is still Microtel (so as long as nobody looks too close at it I can still dangle a parking permit from Moonshine's windshield mirror bracket and park there). There's a Church of God convention at the main arena, so the sidewalks are busy with church elders from Alabama and Mississippi. At Star Cars, the plummeting Cadillac from Terminal Velocity (IIRC?) has been replaced with the Batman Returns Batmobile and the KITT out front was replaced with Anna Nicole Smith's Jaguar convertible.
I basically wandered the shops and malls.
Did most of my shopping at the Books Warehouse shop in the mall near the Aquarium. After poking around the music CDs, I came upon the pile of Baen hardback science-fiction novels...
Bought Echoes of Honor (which I have as an e-book but not in hardcopy), Crown of Slaves and The Shadow of Saganami--both of which I didn't have in ANY form.
Combined cover price: $75. I spent $11.
My need to get off this planet appears to trump any other desire.
* * *
Meme from
robby_bevard:I'm with Robby, I'd probably leave the booze alone and go for something with caffeine and/or guarana. Like...
...This?
And I'd probably let Aaron Williams in without an ID. He's got a tab running with me.
FP
Tags:
- books,
- cars,
- drinks,
- e-books,
- errands,
- gatlinburg,
- honor,
- honorverse,
- malls,
- museum,
- science-fiction,
- shopping,
- tourists,
- travel
