I Am The Road Pony!

ONWARD! WESTWARD! I'M POSTING FROM A ROAD STOP!

Saw some ponies by the road but they were the not magic kind.

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[Titanium Dragon]

I remember when I went to Everfree Northwest, I knew I was going to the right place when I pulled out onto the exit ramp behind a truck with a Rarity bumper sticker on it.

[GaPJaxie]

4192317

Both years I've gone to Bronycon, I've parked next to a caddilac with a huge "DON'T TRED ON ME" sticker and Confederate flag next to a suggestive window sticker of Fluttershy.

[SIGAWESOME]

Hit the road!

[Cold in Gardez]

Ah, the joy of crossing America by car.

Let me know when you get to Nebraska. Although it's only a few hundred miles wide on a map, it actually exists in a pocket dimension that extends highway lengths by approximately 14,000 miles.

[Grungar3x7]

Saw some ponies by the road but they were the not magic kind.

That's racist.

[The Hat Man]

Nothing like a road trip. Going across Texas on my way to the Grand Canyon made me realize how large and varied this country really is.

Also, yes, there were lots of ponies. And horses. And some elk!

[Titanium Dragon]

4192323
Clearly they just like getting in fights with people.

Then again, Neal Horsley did say that when you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule, so Futtershy is several steps up for them.

[Titanium Dragon]

4192350
I remember back in the day when I drove across the country to college, one of the map programs (Mapquest?) had a direction that went something like:

Merge left onto I-80
Continue straight for 1000 miles

[Axis of Rotation]

View from the wagon looks great! Make sure those horses get plenty of water now, and keep an eye out for highway robbers. Those guys are the worst. Keep a strong fire at night. See you in about six months!

[BlazzingInferno]

but they were the not magic kind.

That's just what they wanted you to think

[Georg]

4192350 Reminds me of a joke. Some east-coast types were traveling from Kansas City International Airport to Denver Colorado. The family waiting for them grew a little nervous as it started to get dark and no sign of the other family until they got a text message: Will arrive tomorrow, having horribly underestimated the size of Kansas.

4192521 Several years ago I traveled to Chicago to take a friend's friend to his wedding. I printed out the instructions from Yahoo, I think, got us into the car, traveled...traveled... Up through Iowa... Across I-80... Only then realizing that the website somehow clipped out 200 miles of I-80 so its tiny little brain had us on a two-hour longer trip than if we had taken I-70.

4192409 (intercepted transmission)
#497: Comrades, we have been spotted! Alert the other changelings!
#573: Shush. It is only one of those pony writers. He will be unable to penetrate our clever disguise. Keep quiet and graze. He'll never know. The infiltration of the US continues on course.
(It's the only way to explain the Presidential race at the moment...)

[Bad Horse]

4192600 I was in Michigan with a Brit once who wanted to take a day before his flight back to England to drive out and see the Grand Canyon.

[Georg]

4192618 For those of you outside the US, here's a map of us with the United Kingdom superimposed on it at the same scale.
4.bp.blogspot.com/_cyCg6QtW9_c/TT1wFMXYrTI/AAAAAAAABG4/AFDePIA1oqY/s1600/uk_usa_central_extract.png

Or on a smaller scale, my work coverage area is roughly the size of Ireland:
i.gyazo.com/416eeeccfcb4de039cbcf2a3804c5a0b.png

[Sunny]

So wherefore are you two at the moment?

[GaPJaxie]

4192350

That's tomorrow. After approximately 13.5 hours on the road we are stopped at a hotel on the border between Illinois and Iowa. Hoping to make the same time tomorrow and do the trip in just under four days.

[GaPJaxie]

4192409

Earth Ponies are the most boring kind of ponies it's not racist if it's true.

[GaPJaxie]

4192446

That was a really nice video! We have seen a little wildlife and some farm animals on our way down the road, but sadly we are doing the trip at a Breakneck Pace. We want to do the entire trip in less than 4 days so we have time to actually apartment hunt on arrival. So we aren't getting to see very much of the scenery or the key landmarks.

We did spend all of today listening to a book called Confederates in the Attic that talks about southern views on the Civil War though. So oddly, we are getting a pretty wide slice of the American Experience, just not the part that corresponds to the country were currently driving through.

[GaPJaxie]

4192492

Okay, THAT'S racist.

4192589

Joking aside, having to physically drive across the country does give you a sense for how ridiculously huge it is. Flying down the road 80 to 90 miles per hour the whole way, it still takes 4 straight days. It makes you appreciate what a Herculean Endeavor it would be to do this with a carriage or even on foot.

[GaPJaxie]

4192599

They did neigh at each other instead of using good english. So maybe they were communicating in secret horse code.

4192706

In a little hotel on the border of Illinois and Iowa.

[Grungar3x7]

4192778
'with all due r'spect, Mr. Jaxie, buck yew!'

[Sunny]

4192797

Darn, too far west at this point then!

[BlazzingInferno]

4192797
There's nothing secret about horse code, it's just a series of dashes and trots.

[Jordanis]

Mad Jax: The Pone Warrior.

4192350

God's honest truth. Wyoming blending into Iowa over the course of uncountable hours of driving.

I've heard that west Texas is worse, though.

[GaPJaxie]

4192899

That was awful and I will hate you forever.

[SIGAWESOME]

4192654
Just out of curiosity, how did you make that overlay of your work coverage + Ireland?

[ForSpite]

4192789
"Southern redneck" is more of a culture than a race.

One interesting thing I've heard is that people who live outside the USA sometimes have a hard time grasping how physically huge it is. I've also heard it said that the difference between England and America is that 'in America 100 years is a long time and in England 100 miles is a long ways'.