The Mid West

Trip Start Oct 30, 2006
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Trip End Dec 24, 2006


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Friday, December 1, 2006

Next stop was Cincinnati. I headed here with Ed as he had family freinds he was visiting so i planned to just stay in a Hotel while he spent the weekend with them. Upon arrival at 3am i find out Cincinnati , is a hole with a very dangerous reputation and noone actually lives there they live accross the Bridge in Newport Kentucky and surrouding burbs.
Joe the man Ed knew offered for me to stay with them as their is no real suitable hotels anywhere. So i agree and if it had not been for me tagging along with head this is one typical american lifestyle i would never had experienced. Redneck america yeehaa!
The Capoli family were so hospitable and made their home so welcome to me i am very grateful, as it was short notice that i was even coming. I headed to Louiville the colledge town where 2 out of the 8 kids attended Louisville Uni. We took in  A colledge american football match with 50,000 people, dorm life with Mary Kate and some heavy partying colledge style with her brother Kenny and his buddies. After being politely excorted from the club coz i was having to much fun and fell over dancing just a couple of times we headed back to the family home in Fort Thomas.
They showed us just what there is to do in Kentucky... Eat, drive around and eat some more of no doubt the worlds worst food for you! Everything is fried, processed, buffet and burgers. We trully saw american midwest culture here, where everyone drives pick ups and SUV's, flags hang proud from the houses, they talk a little slower. Small town america very sweet and homely but the diet and lack of things to do was making me yearn for the big city again. After a drive around the surrounding towns and visiting a petrefied rock ( only because i had never heard of one before and was intrigued) we picked up Pizza at 1am and boarded our train to Chicago
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