I Finally Make It To The Atlantic

firstly, my apologies for the lack of posts lately. ive been hanging with my family in north carolina and generally enjoying being fed. i did mean to catch up yesterday but i spent the whole day sleeping and watching the fresh prince of bel-air instead. i think jazz is my ideal man by the way. so places ive been... charleston which is very pretty but kinda boring. i think my main issue was that is quite a high class holiday resort and i was running out of money and couldnt afford to do anything. it is very attractive thou, all colonial architecture and palmetto trees. the palmetto tree is the state tree of south carolina and an adopted symbol of the confederacy (aka the lost cause) and hence is everywhere. i was slightly disturbed by the fact you can buy gollywog dolls in the market. ok i had a gollywog doll when i was little but 1 this was back in the day 2 shrewsbury is behind the times anyway 3 id never even seen a black person before the age of 5 let alone know that my gollywog was meant to represent one. my cousin lives in raleigh , north carolina and goes to college in nearby chapel hill also home to ben folds and ryan adams. now her school, ncu, its nickname is the tar heals so naturally im like - oh whys that that. - oh back in the civil war some people waded through a tar field and then fought a battle. - what battle? - dunno. - are there a lot of tar fields in north carolina? - dont think so. this was the best answer i could get. other people were like oh its lost in the mists of time. the civil war is not the mists of time guys. it was like 1862, you should know what happened and what tar had to do with it.

and of course there are my further culinary adventures. i had krispy kreme for the first time. they are from winsten salem nc also home of morovian sugar cake which is amazing too. theres definately something in the water there. now ive had dunkin' doughnuts before which are from boston and they were disappointing. in the battle for the doughnut, the south definately wins. krispy kreme was everything and more i imagined a doughnut to be. we went at midnight when the 'hot sign ' is on and its like eating air - hot sweet doughy glazed air that is. they simply melt on your tongue and you get to watch them rise in the open kitchen. ah now i cant even think what else ive eaten, im just daydreaming about doughnuts. oh yeah i had frozen yoghurt for the first time. i was expecting it to taste of yoghurt - it doesnt. its just ice cream. and my cousin and her boyfriend looked at me like i was crazy when i said this. then i said so if you wanted your froen yoghurt to taste of yoghurt you'd have to order yoghurt flavour frozen yoghurt and they looked at me like i should be sectioned. i also had this thing called bubble tea - i was expecting carbonated iced tea. no its actually a smoothie with lumps of tapioca in it. i couldnt quite handle the tapioca. its a bit weird.

i also have been on the craziest greyhound. now riding the greyhound is a bit like being on a school bus. the driver tells you off over the announcer if you make too much noise. on the bus from memphis to atlanta the bus driver was like - if yo' havin problem with yo' baby mama or yo' baby daddy no one on da bus needs to know. save it fo' nashville. anyway this bus from raleigh to dc had all the crazies on it. there was some drunk tramp who went to bathroom (brave as i am i must admit i have never ventured to go to the onboard restroom in all my travels) and had a cigarette. now this is not allowed and the bus driver was not happy and told the guy he would be kicked off at the next stop and off course the rest of the bus started weighing in with their opinions on the matter. anyway 20 minutes or so later the guy does it again, unbelievebly, and then tries to deny it even though you could smell the smoke and starts getting aggressive at the bus driver. so the driver kicks him off in the middle of the freeway. fair enough i say but all the bus is going ah you can't do that, you can't do that and the driver is like you lot better shut up or youre going to be joining him. i was trying hard not to laugh. also of great excitement at dc we saw, me for the first time despite my myriad journeys, a couple of the new fleet of buses and everyone went ooohhh, ahhhh etc. at the sight.