Back in the fall, I visited the States in a pretty major month-long whirlwind tour, with something like 1,600 miles driven and over 30 people visited in 7 states.
Major crops seen from the road: tobacco leaves, corn, cotton. Major cities visited: Springfield, St. Louis. Minor cities visited: Athens, Chattanooga, Hamel, Vicksburg, Mobile. Major holidays celebrated: Halloween. And when I got back to Germany, my neighbor had left her stove on, so I called the fire department while super jet-lagged and exhausted to keep the building from burning down. Whew.
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| Bulldog in front of the electric company building in Athens, Georgia |
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| The Tree That Owns Itself in Athens |
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| Oljiata Bridge, with a view of the Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
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| Corn en route to Illinois |
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| Conservatory at a park in Springfield, IL |
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| Abraham Lincoln mural in Springfield |
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| Rolls Royce get-together in Springfield |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright house (Dana Thomas House) in Springpatch |
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| Farmer humor in Hamel, IL |
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| The Arch! in St. Louis |
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| Cotton en route to Mississippi |
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| View of the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, MS |
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| Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park |
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| Abita Brewery in Louisiana |
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| Pumpkins! |
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| Down by the bay in Daphne, AL |
