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luciazephyr) wrote2006-10-28 06:45 pm
luciazephyr) wrote2006-10-28 06:45 pm
I need a spot of help before the 1st...
My NaNoWriMo novel revolves around a road-trip up the east coast of the US. Anyone who lives there or has visited and doesn't mind helping me out, I need some research info.
Tell me anything you can about the culture, attitude, landscape, roads, and people of the following states, please. My current notes are as follows.
South Carolina:
North Carolina:
Virginia:
Maryland: Take 95 North. Land's flat. All small towns sans Baltimore. Everything from the Beltway into DC, from the Beltway out for perhaps 20 miles, plus everything between DC and Baltimore, is a fairly unbroken mass of strip-mall suburbia. "Small town" really doesn't apply.
Pennslyvania: Take 476 North to New York State. Roads have tolls, usually $1.50. Costs $8 to cross state. Tolls are more expensive in NY. AMISH IN LOWER STATE. Hilly highways, roads have concrete dividers. Lots of hills, evergreen trees, maple, pine. Few animals, deer, turkey. Few tiny mountains, some rivers, mostly small towns, sans Philly. Deer and other animals like to be in the middle of the damn road, so swerving occurs. Also, highways through hills can be narrow and claustrophobic.
New York:
Massachusetts:
So. NaNo. *frets* I'll be spending the next three days on Wikipedia and Google, looking up things for NaNoWriMo, forgetting to takes notes over them, then having to re-research them while I'm fighting to get my 1600 per day wordcount.
-Luce
Tell me anything you can about the culture, attitude, landscape, roads, and people of the following states, please. My current notes are as follows.
South Carolina:
North Carolina:
Virginia:
Maryland: Take 95 North. Land's flat. All small towns sans Baltimore. Everything from the Beltway into DC, from the Beltway out for perhaps 20 miles, plus everything between DC and Baltimore, is a fairly unbroken mass of strip-mall suburbia. "Small town" really doesn't apply.
Pennslyvania: Take 476 North to New York State. Roads have tolls, usually $1.50. Costs $8 to cross state. Tolls are more expensive in NY. AMISH IN LOWER STATE. Hilly highways, roads have concrete dividers. Lots of hills, evergreen trees, maple, pine. Few animals, deer, turkey. Few tiny mountains, some rivers, mostly small towns, sans Philly. Deer and other animals like to be in the middle of the damn road, so swerving occurs. Also, highways through hills can be narrow and claustrophobic.
New York:
Massachusetts:
So. NaNo. *frets* I'll be spending the next three days on Wikipedia and Google, looking up things for NaNoWriMo, forgetting to takes notes over them, then having to re-research them while I'm fighting to get my 1600 per day wordcount.
-Luce
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Um. Have you ever BEEN to Maryland? Everything from the Beltway into DC, from the Beltway out for perhaps 20 miles, plus everything between DC and Baltimore, is a fairly unbroken mass of strip-mall suburbia. "Small town" really doesn't apply.
(I grew up there.)
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And I'll change the notes on it, thanks.
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Actually, here is probably more info than you needed
Someone's travel photos of Maryland highways (http://www.trainweb.org/oldmainline/bwamake3.htm). Weird, huh.
My only comment is that during rush hours those lanes are parking lots - and since there are DC area workers who live in Northern or Western Maryland and even Pennsylvania, rush hour for some routes starts around 6:30.
[Deleted and re-posted to fix the really bad html error. I really wish we had comment edits.]
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I'm not sure how much of that is relevant, if you need more just ask.
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I know several Maryland drivers who have been ticketed for driving in the left lane. It is, of course, the driver's responsibility to know the law. ;)
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