Worst State Ever! Son on a Road Trip to Virginia . . .
Great Big Shout Out to the Number One Son! My oldest son, is a huge Michigan football fan, and is right now on the road from Minnesota to Virginia (Fort Lee). He wanted everyone at his favorite blog to know that he changed his route so as to not have to travel through Columbus. Caleb texted me from the border (HELLO: Worst State Ever). He is refusing to stop and or spend money anywhere between Indiana and the east side of the state!
I just got home driving back from Miami (Ohio). The drive right now is brutal with this terrible weather...especially in Ohio.
I hate driving to/through Ohio, but on a nice day, those hils on the way to Oxford are awesome to go way too fast on!
Even on the beautiful days, those curvy roads in the middle of nowhere still make you want to drive like an old man. Though the drive on a nice day between Oxford/Ann Arbor is probably one of easiest 4 hour drives you can make.
I just got home driving back from Miami (Ohio). The drive right now is brutal with this terrible weather...especially in Ohio.
When I was 10 my mom and sisters and I stayed the night in Columbus as we were moving across country.
Our car was broken into that night and all of our stuff was stolen.
You could say my abhorrence of Ohio started that day... but it didn't. I loathed Ohio even before that godfersaken state took all my cds and clothing.
Super Cool Story Bro.
My brother's band is on tour right now and they played in Columbus a few days ago. Apparently their Michigan License plate wasn't appreciated.
Nothing was stolen. Just the smashed window.
Whenever I visit my aunt in Columbus, she makes me back right up against the garage door to hide my Michigan plate. Your brother's band should see if they can't back it up against a loading dock or the like at their venues.
I don't think they'll be playing there again.
or not play in Columbus
A friend of mine had Ohio license plates but went to Michigan and got her car window smashed just before the Michigan-Ohio game a few years ago.
Probably just a rabid MSU fan who got lost;see "their" recruits easily get confused with East Lansing and Ann Arbor and end up commiting to the wrong school ie Patrick Kugler.
Good work.
I always fill up on gas in Cranberry/Dundee when driving through Ohio. I only stop to piss or drop a deuce. I pay my tolls in small change (pennies, nickels, and dimes only), and I always short them. (Only once has the attendee actually counted it out and made me fork over the full toll. They usually threaten to count it all, but give up after a couple bucks.) Standard operating procedure whenever I drive through.
That's actually a really douchey thing to do. I'm not sure why you're proud of that.
Because it's Ohio.
And this:
Woody, famous for his hatred for Michigan and anything that had to do with the state, was on a recruiting trip in the state of Michigan, when an assistant noticed that the car he was driving was going to run out of gas and told Woody, who was dozing in the passenger seat. Woody refused to let him pull over for gas and the assistant drove on. The assistant saw the weather was starting to get bad, and worried they'd be stuck in the middle of nowhere, again stressed to Woody they needed to get gas. Woody then erupted: "No, goddammit! We do NOT pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you exactly why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddam drop of gas in the state of Michigan! We'll coast and PUSH this goddam car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money!" They barely made it across the border and stopped, almost literally, at the first gas station they found in Ohio.
who punched a college kid during a game, so I'm not sure we should care that he was a douchebag.
So they didnt literally stop? Must have been hard to fill up the tank while moving.
That's actually kind of weird. I mean, if the route was faster by avoiding Columbus then it makes sense, but if he prolonged an already ridiculously long trip, that's kind of dumb.
FWIW, if you're going from Indiana and through Ohio you are usually taking I-70 through Columbus. The only way you'd see the Horses... er, the Giant Toilet Seat is if you go N-S along s.r. 315, which you wouldn't do. You won't even see hide nor hair of the entire bloated campus.
That said, there's no really good way in Ohio of going SE outta the state no matter how you slice it. Taking the highway 35 SE outta Dayton may add around an hour to the trip but lets you see a bit more of West Virginia which is worth driving through.
through West Virginia for just that reason!
Also, side note that not many people may care about: I am an architectural designer who lives in Columbus, so I've worked on several building projects located there. I've concomitantly done several bathroom plans for buildings in Ohio. To my surprise and your as well, we've drawn actual bonafide toilet fixtures for every single one of these as opposed to coolers.
Having said that, I'm a junior architect who doesn't handle the construction administration part of the project so I've never seen what the contractors actually install....
wrong thread....embarassing......
The rest stops are filthy, the roads are crappy except the tolls and the speed limits make no sense and often < @70 mph. And Columbus is a piss pot. For the life of me, I can't figure why a kid would want to spend 4 years in Columbus when he could be in AA.
If he must ...be safe. The four letter state sucks to drive through - 65mph speed limits, state troopers and CONSTRUCTION - I live in TN and drive home through Indiana every year.
I just got back from a 2 day trip to Springfield and then Milford (Cinci suburb). We drive through every year on our trek to the outer banks of Coastal North Carolina. The southeast corner of Ohio (where Ohio U is) is actually quite appealing to me. We checked it out as an option for my son, but it has zero cirriculum for a kid interested in medicine.
Other than that......Ohio blows.
I drove from Grand rapids to Ft Lee and went through Cbus. I like it when I have a MI license plate and they get all pisse and make grstures. It's fun!
Tell your son to have fun here. Lots to do...
Just finished the ROTC program up here in Minnesota at the lame U of M. Thanks for the well wishes!
My son drove separately from Blacksburg. When he called us and said he was 40 mi south of CBus, I asked him if he could smell the stench emanating from that shithole.
it's great for stopping to take a dump, then immediately getting back in your car and driving on. I especially enjoy leaving an upper-decker. Even better when I clench just right, and it forms the shape of a big Wolverine's head. That REALLY drives the buckeyes crazy.
I'm probably going to be in the minority here but Ohio does have the Air Force Museum. Toledo is not too bad.
Driving from NC to Michigan is the worst. West Virginia and Ohio. OH33 is an abomination.
To be fair, West Virginia is beautiful, but with the mountain roads and tunnels there is inevitably a time where I am stuck on a mountainside in a 2 hour traffic jam and my son/gf have to use a rest room and can't BECAUSE WE'RE STUCK IN TRAFFIC ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE!
Go south until you smell it and then east until you step in it!
Worst State Ever!
Once he loses inertia, the $hit will cause him to get stuck.