I’m back from Kentucky well rested after having spent some quality time with a map, a girl and a gas-efficient little Japanese car. While out there it came to our collective attention that apart from the joys of soy milk little that we crave culinarily really exists–Wendy’s does not count, no matter how much we may love it.
One is able however to get some really tasty sushi, which surprised the hell out of me. In fact it surprised us so much that we went twice, enough times to try both the sashimi and the udon. Both were so tasty given the location (which is ostensibly the middle of nowhere as this map attests) that they almost defy description, like a sort of Brigadoon for foodies. I hesitate to talk too loudly about our Ginza experience for fear that other weary travelers may find that it has, in fact, disappeared like a phantom when they try to find it for themselves. Other than that Elizabethtown, KY is a smorgasbord of apostrophe restaurants and drive thru windows–which really isn’t so bad when the company is as good as it was. Besides, most everyone likes a good homogenous burger on a road trip now and again right? (Vegans, I’m being rhetorical.) It’s entries like these that make me ask myself ‘Self, are you a food critic?’ To which I must respond (wait for it) ‘No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night…’
Now it’s back to the world of two jobs and an escape plan punctuated by one more definite recharge trip. And there may be news on the Longing front soon as well. Wow. 2006 is holding up its end of the bargain so far to win Most Kickass Year Ever™. ~