This drive felt like the old days with traffic, road construction and unnecessary stops. Nineteen hours to travel 1138 miles.
But what the f*ck is up with Ohio? The highway deer carnage capital of America. How about picking up the mammals before they look like they wandered onto the highway wearing explosive belts? Come on! A head and neck here, squashed hind quarters there, swathes of highway painted red, and then all of that repeated what seems like every few miles.
peter miller
Caught Mike, or he caught me, I don’t remember, in the midst of that stretch of Far Side Humor of the deer practicing their suicide runs, and he swerving to–at least–miss the antlers. Good Boy, Mikey! Don’t want to Hit Those.
Called back afer he had just rolled in. And he was not the same brother. Jeff and Karen were asleep The airplane propeller they use for a fan was dragging the house down the street when he pulled up. I called to talk about the sunset I was witnessing, but he might as well have been part of the deer carnage, without the antlers.
Glad he made it safely, though, from the neck down.
adam
I was thinking yesterday how I wished I’d been able to be your copilot after all, though after these tales of mammalian destruction, I’m feeling spared a difficult passage. Glad you made it, and that the carnage was not yours, nor of your making.
laRad
Glad you made it safely. Now we know where the expression “deer caught in the headlights” comes from. It comes from Ohio. Replace deer parts with chipmunks and you have described my back yard. Our cat has been on a major killing spree this fall and the body parts are out there to prove it. Nasty. Anway, don’t they allow deer hunting in Ohio, or maybe there is some sort of proliferation of them and the humans have used up all their living space and in trying to find more they end up on the highways. Poor little deer.
rakkity
Thank god Mike didn’t stop and take pictures for the blog. The verbal graphics are enough. Deer season in Ohio, maybe? Apparently they use cars instead of rifles.
michael
Here’s the natural shields-up-to-the-carnage sequence. Chipmunk parts in the highway. Ho Hum. Racoons guts in the highway. Ho Hum. Small deer. Ho Hum. Bigger deer. Ho Hum. Humans. Ho Hum.
laRad
You’ve only been in a red state for 24 hours and already you are reacting. Funny theory from Rakkity about the cars being what they hunt with there. Very funny.
Michael
I thought about photographs… .