I have to laugh at the WA stories, that's my home turf :-) Also, New Mexico! Yes! Love myself some southwest--I took my boyfriend camping there for a month last summer. Hmm, hard to pick a good road story, I'll have to think on it, but I'm enjoying everyone else's anecdotes. Actually, Laura's story reminds me of a woman I met in San Francisco. She bought a bunch of flowers from a street vendor and then gave me and each of my friends one, just because she liked making people happy. I thought, how perfect for SF!
Oh, there was one time I was in Nebraska trying to get through this intense lighting storm, when I hear about a tornado warning up ahead. I go into this little town looking for a slice of pie to wait it out, only the town is pretty much abandoned. Then I hear that the storm was heading, not in the usual direction, but rather right towards me. I skedaddled right on out of there and spent the rest of the night looking for a clearing to go around the worst of it. I'll never forget being surrounded by lighting strikes on all horizons, the road pretty much abandoned except for stupid little me! Turns out it was a good thing I turned around because the storm dropped some baseball sized hail--totally stripped some corn fields (though my car later got pummelled by hail in a freak storm in North Dakota...but that's a different story)
