The high cost of exploration

Anyone who knows me will confirm that I don't have a sense of direction. One consequence of my lack of direction sense is that I make heavy use of yahoo maps driving directions. One other consequence is that I don't like to get in the car unless I have a definite destination. I'm not much for exploring.

Frankly, as long as I know where work, Best Buy, a Mall, a grocery store, a book store, and a gaming store are I'm good. Restaurants are usually around the mall and Best Buy. The mall usually has an EB Games. I can even do without the mall, best buy, the bookstore, and even the gaming store as long as I have internet access, because there's always Amazon.

So basically, I don't like to explore. I have my set of places I know how to get to, and beyond that I usually don't care. Here in Virginia it's worse, because getting around is difficult. There are no roads that go in straight lines. Most roads have at least 3 different names and intersect with themselves. Add to that the maniacs that drive around here and you can see my reluctance for exploration. Well, the maniac drivers and my fear that I'll end up someplace where all I can hear is banjo music.

Well, today Eunice and I went exploring. We were thinking that maybe we'd like it better around here if we knew the area better. Maybe we'd find some good inexpensive places to hang out. Maybe we'd find some place where people don't drive with their ass. We didn't find any of those things.

We found residential areas. We found strip malls. We found a library. We lost and then found Eunice's backup pair of glasses. All for the low low price of $2.65 per gallon.

We also found that getting around isn't nearly as difficult as I thought it was. You see, roads don't matter. Every road leads to every other road. The fact that the roads are a spaghetti-like mess works in your favor. As long as you're on a road of some kind and you have a good grasp of 5th dimensional physics, you'll make it to your destination.

Fortunately, we found no banjo music.