in transit.

 

so, she left. well, i rode with her across the country to her new place of employment: chicago. there are a lot of places from here to there: north carolina, virginia, west virginia, kentucky, indiana, and illinois. we made a little vacation out of it, stopping in louisville. it was at an incredible bar called meat in a neighborhood called butchertown where we drank bourbon cocktails and decided that we should write travel books on cities in the south.

but, alas, we only stayed for the night, leaving for glorious (not really) state of indiana. i had never been and was able to add the thirty-seventh state to my list. we stopped through indianapolis, eating bagels on a corner not far from the state fairgrounds but across the street from a record shop.

 

we also saw the biggest wind farm i have ever seen in my life. and the iphones just could not capture the vastness of the place. 

more importantly, we came upon the albanese candy company: home of the world's best gummi bears. so, of course, we pulled over our dodge grand caravan (which was awesome, for the record) and drove 3 miles down a surprisingly-busy road to the kingdom that this is candy company. we left with about $3 worth of candy, all gummies: 12 flavors. indeed, world's best. at least for gummies.

girls gone wild.

in which lindsey and i talk about candy via gchat. (please understand that is only part of the conversation. i HAD to post it. it's too good. the nerdiest.)

me: one beer

lindsey: ONE beer?

me: one big beer.

lindsey: a growler?

me: if i buy a lot, i drink a lot.

no

like 20 oz

lindsey: like me and ice cream

8:39 PM or me and M&ms

or me and any reasonable crunchy chocolate

me: anyone and m&ms

lindsey: totally

me: those things are addicting

lindsey: they are!

the pretzel m&m's!

me: my parents used to keep big bags of them in the freezer

lindsey: i could eat them by the bucket

me: the regular kind

lindsey: so crunchy salty sweet

mmmm

or the almond ones...

anything except the peanut butter ones. disgusting. really. why do they taste like that? ugh.

plain ones are also great.

8:40 PM me: my mom gave me a bag of the pretzel ones and yelena and i ate them at the bar one night

lindsey: the crunchy rice krispie m*m was evil

me: like children

lindsey: YUMMMMM

me: you have tried so many!!

lindsey: that sounds so good and so nauseating

they have coconut m&ms too

me: eh.

lindsey: they are great!

the pretzel ones are my favorite

me: i like pretzel, peanut, peanut butter. that's it.

lindsey: what else do they have? dark chocolate ones.

me: the plain are my fave.

lindsey: also, flavored ones in "premium" size.

8:41 PM me: oh yes, dark choc.

lindsey: minty, or cherry.

me: the best.

lindsey: i miss the tan colored plain ones

me: me too

lindsey: i'm sad they added blue

me: my absolute favorite

lindsey: mine too

me: i hate blue

lindsey: i voted in the color choice poll

i wanted violet

me: i think i chose purple

8:42 PM i guess violet

i also hate red

lindsey: lol

me: i think they taste weird.

lindsey: i like chocolate as you know, so i think the brown ones are my favorite. the dark brown.

me: but i am sure it is psychosomatic

lindsey: but i don't really care about the color.

8:43 PM me: yes, i like the brown ones, too.

or yellow.

why? who knows?

when we were in middle school, we heard the green ones made you horny

lindsey: have you tried chocolate skittles? i am too scared to try them.

i don't even like skittles normally, so there's little incentive.

me: i almost spit out my beer when i wrote that

lindsey: LMAO