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A child on a road trip with his family asks, "Where are we?" and the father answers, "Let's check the map. We're off the blue roads [the Interstate Highways marked in blue on the road atlas]. We're off the red roads [the US and state highways]. We're off the black roads [the county highways]. I think we're off the map altogether." It was always my dream to be off the map altogether.
After the jump, a few of the random places (and I mean random literally) that I visited vicariously last month that are "off the blue roads".
- right in the middle of the motocross track near Black Eagle, Montana, visited on a cold and snowy February 1
- in flat grassland in British Columbia far from the mountainous and forested terrain that's home to the Winter Olympics
- in a grey two-storey house with white trim in southern California, with a brick pillar mailbox at the curb and a St. Valentine's Day banner flapping over the walkway to the front door -- "Be Mine"
- right at the front door of number 1 Lemon Grove in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia, a neat white weatherboard or hardiplank (fibro cement siding) house
- in Florida, behind the mega MEGA million dollar mansions on the narrow strip of land between Lake Worth and the Atlantic Ocean
- right at the side wall of a Wal-Mart in Owensville, Missouri
- just down the road from exit 235 of I-90 in Ohio, past the Adult Videos porn shop
- right in the middle of the I395 off-ramp at North Quaker Lane in Alexandria, Virginia
- inside a fenced Lockheed Martin campus in California, with California Pepper trees lining the fence
- near an old flat-bed farm wagon inside a snow-covered, fenced vacant lot in the little town of Meadow, Utah
- in a porta-potty with a broken roof in a scrap heap made up of discarded rails in the Roper Terminal area of the Union Pacific Railroad in the city of South Salt Lake City, Utah
- just inside the old HMAS Narimba airfield in New South Wales ("After the Navy closed the field it was in use as the Schofield's Aerodrome and they used to hold a popular air show there, but alas even that is no more")
- in Wisconsin, behind a farmstead with a dilapidated, collapsing barn, a machine shed and a two story farmhouse
- in corn stubble off Illinois' Reservation Road, near Waa Kee Sha Park, named after the Indian granted the land in the Treaty of 1829 signed at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
- in a snow-covered forest in Germany, near a hunters' stand
- in snow covered woods, a very peaceful and serene spot, in Crawford County, Missouri
- next to a small stream with some trees in Illinois, with many animal tracks, mostly rabbit, criss-crossing the area
- in Laurel Park in St. Charles County, Missouri, across some open ground that was muddy from melting snow on top of frozen ground
- in the middle of nowhere in North Carolina, next to a large pine tree just past the entrance to Mill Bay Fox Preserve
- and in the middle of a large orange grove near Bowling Green, Florida ("the trees were loaded")
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