I passed thru Indiana, Ohio, WVA and VA recently. It was a sobering drive. It’s especially dreary passing thru areas where the local HS football team is worshipped. Lots of odd looks at gas stations, lot of drug use, and a lot of rural poverty. It’s an interesting contrast to inner cities. Similar in many ways, different in even more ways.
not OP and this isn’t perfect, but if I’m on a road trip, my signal that a place is having some kinda drug issue is if there is a lot of rigamarole around trying to use the bathroom at a gas station.
like combo locks and general discouraging attitudes.
southern Indiana is a shit hole.
Several trailer parks which had people shooting shit up. We stopped at a gas station right outside of WVA at the NC border that had a treatment facility. They were handing out clean syringes there. It’s not my first time down this route either. I’ve gone thru the Appalachia several times, and you will definitely see stuff, especially when you make stops.
It’s also the largest city in the country without a mass transit system or any intercity rail service.
Here’s a statue of Moses Cleveland
He’s the guy who invented Cleveland
Ohio is super average, so a ton of market research goes on there. Then companies worry California is too liberal and will skew shit so they also do a lot of that Texas, which is some real big brain shit. Among the companies who opt to test stuff in Texas are our major textbook manufacturers, who also were the primary lobbyists on Common Core
When I was a kid, I lived 2 doors down from a quasi-rural gas station in Ohio.
My first or second year of getting stoned as a 16 or 17 year old, we got super baked and walked to the gas station. They had Doritos in a black and white bag labeled “Doritos X-13D”
Up until a few years ago when I googled them, I wasn’t sure if we all imagined it cause it was so weird.
I’m not sure if this was some kind of nationwide proto-viral marketing thing or if Ohio is integral to the story, but it’s extremely funny. Just like that website of obscure chip reviews wtf pure Americana
