Highway messages

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GL ASSBLOWERS!

Hooker Creek Road

Balls Ferry

Weed

Warning: Bears

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After a harrowing descent in driving rain from an icy summit, I eased into a small mountain town and found a family hotel, with free wireless, an indoor heated pool, and the various usual options.

I'll write some more after dinner at the family pizza and pasta place nearby...

(Later)

The rain keep falling here. There's a snow advisory. Overheard at the restaurant in this small town:

First Guy: He got mad at me when I called him a Spaniard.
Second Guy: There's a different between Mexicans and Spaniards, y'know.
First Guy: Is it that the Mexicans are all bastards?
Second Guy: Yeah, they don't like you to know that but it's true. They can't really speak Spaniard. They speak Mexican.
First Guy: What about the Hunas?
Second Guy: You mean the Huns?
First Guy: I thought it was Hunas.
Second Guy: The Huns are Germans. They came from the Mongols, who came from China, and took over the whole world until they met the Germans. The Germans were the only ones who didn't cry and just fall over. They stood up to them. So the Mongols liked the Germans, they intermarried and that's how we got the Huns. And that straight to Hitler, who admired the battle plans of the Mongols, especially Genghiz Khan.
First Guy: I really thought they were Hunas.

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I swear, this conversation is rendered accurately. I was impressed by the scope of the second guy's knowledge, even if certain details were rather unusual interpretations. We're a long way from San Francisco...

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