Oregon Trail: Ames Edition

3.20.26

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Can you have a midlife crisis at 39 1/2 years old?

Maybe.

Maybe that looks like taking a job on the literal other side of the country.

Maybe that looks like a cross country road trip with a bestie to reach the literal other side of the country.

Maybe that looks like stopping in Point Pleasant, WV to touch Mothman’s butt.

You’re never too old to fanboy over a cryptid statue at 9 o’clock at night in a small West Virginia town. On a very empty street. With a creepy mannequin watching you.

So worth it.

Not even mad that the gift shops were closed. Probably saved me a few hundred dollars. And whatever I might have bought wouldn’t fit in the car anyway.

Rolling away like a tumbleweed in the wind,

Ames