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I've been so irritated w/having to move to eastern side of the USA these last 4 years that I've basically made fun of everything around me and middle-fingered every 'historical' spot as I drive through 'old' New England.
For a while I've seemed to find issue w/every restaurant, store, roadway, public park etc etc... I've just been a little bitch all butthurt w/having to relocate that I've become cliché in my ability to find fault with everything.
I was informed the other night over a beer that this dopey little mountain near me (if you can call it a 'mountain') of which the peak isn't even 20km from my home as the crow flies, is actually the 2nd most climbed / hiked mountain ...on the PLANET (behind Mt Fuji).
I called 'bullshit' while laughing / snorting my hazy IPA all over myself. Dude pulled up all sorts of tourist crap / wikipedia stuff / news articles etc etc showing it to be 'true' (I still call bullshit but there's some truth to its popularity).
For the last four years I've referred to the mountain as Mt 'My Nads Knock' as it's called Mt 'Monadnock'. The word is overused to name every other business in the region (eg-'Monadnock Towing'.)... I was bored of the word / idea of this mountain 15 minutes after moving here.
I'm suddenly intrigued... turns out people like Emerson, Thoreau... even Lovecraft loved the place, frequented and wrote about it.
There's also a number of fun conspiracy documentaries and New England historical 'stuff' out there that's actually interesting enough that I'm contemplating calling it by its actual name and MAYBE even going and hiking some it's trails.
- lolmonospaced
- So beautiful up there. I toured the monadnock paper factory there once. Amazing b&bs too.monospaced
- OF COURSE it's named 'Monadnock' Paper... lol—what else would you name it? :) And yeah—it's lovely up here in the warmer months... but winter is coming :(PonyBoy
- Them woods are scary AF at night, though ;)monospaced
- Lol MonadznockYakuZoku
- Lol. Stay strong, and continue ignoring that stupid rock, like a grumpy old man ;)OBBTKN
- At least you don’t live in the inferno anymore. Weren’t you in Phoenix? Anyone that chooses to live in 115°F needs their head examined.HijoDMaite
- As someone from the area, you seem to be fitting right in with the 'tude.cannonball1978
- yeah, Hijo—I lived in PHX more than half my life... I've just returned to where my wife and I grew up to be near her aging family (talk about cranky people) :)PonyBoy