The Traveling Karr

Epic.  Totally Epic :)

I'm not going anywhere for a week or two (I didn't realize just how much that took out of me)  Though folks have mentioned that they would like to hear more from the Traveling Karr whether he's traveling or not.

So here he is.  The traveling Karr.

Greetings Minions

I would just like to go on record as saying something.  I am also going to step out of my somewhat dead pan attitude and flat tones to say it...

Georgia is hot as the lowest and darkest level of hell...  Which really doesn't make any sense since in Dante's Inferno the deepest level of hell was actually described as being encased in ice.  Which is entirely beside the point.  It hit well over a hundred today and it's only June.  I could truly go for some ice right about now.  Any ice.

That said I would just like to say the job hunt is on for Maji.  She has fallen in love with the Helen area of Georgia.  If all goes well we will relocate to Helen.  Sound like fun?

This means Tourists.  Tourists means...  You guessed it...  Her Stupid Peoples Awards.

Karr

Admit it...  Ya'll like Karr more than me don't ya :)

A riddle...

A riddle for the day



Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one.

Michael J. Fox has a small one.

Madonna doesn't have one.

The Pope has one but doesn't use it.

Clinton uses his all the time.

Bush is one.

Mickey Mouse has an unusual one.

Liberace never used his on women.

Jerry Seinfeld is very, very proud of his.

Cher claims that she took on 3.

We never saw Lucy use Desi's.

What is it? Answer below! (this is pretty good )










The answer is: "A Last Name."

You didn't really think I'd send you a dirty joke, did you?

This made me laugh for a long time :)

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World Domination totally starts in the bar...

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Karr on the Beach, totally working on his tan. That's a beach chair he's sitting on. He refused to get down in fear that sand would touch him. He kinda reminded me of one of those little fluffy dogs...

Karr: I heard that...

Savannah Killed my Inner Child

Yes it did...  Not only did Savannah kill my inner child it knocked it to the ground, stepped on it, beat it up a little, molested it, and then killed it.  It wasn't a fast death.  There was torture involved.  Frighteningly enough it was still a fun trip...  Does this make me a disturbing person?

Anyway...  The one everyone is really here to hear from.  The Traveling Karr

Greetings Minions...

This trip is an odd one in that it actually started before ever leaving.  Not much sleep was to be had as Russell and the writer's brother decided to shanghi the living room and watch a movie that I found most enjoyable for a movie that included no vehicular manslaughter.  Apollo 13.

So this should probably forecast the rest of the trip maybe?  Crawled out of bed at 6 a.m.  Way to early in the flippin' morning if you ask me...

Set out on the road not to long after that and hit the road for Savannah.  Just a tip?  No if you are going from Waynesboro to Savannah you do not need to get on I-95.  Apparently Maji's thoughts were on Jacksonville and a cruise ship.

Got to the beach at about 9 in the morning.  It was very nice but for the sand...  And the salt water...  and the fish...  and the people...  Alright let me point something out right here.  Every time we go to the beach we are all reminded of just how much we all hate the beach.  Personally I hated getting sand on me and refused to get off the beach chair.

Maji decided getting in the water might be fun.  The problem being the fish...  Yes fish.  Little fish just a bit longer than a human's hand were jumping out of the water.  Absolutely everywhere!  Dozens of them.  Has anyone else been to Tybee Island?  Is this common?

Anyway Maji felt one hit her leg and then bite her therefore for a while she was out of the water.  However, that did not last long as she then seemed to forget the fish and got back in the water.  This event made the entire trip enjoyable.  A fish jumped out of the water and hit her in the face!  I kid you not.  I laughed so hard if I were human I would have soiled myself.  This was a truly amazing event and when I rule the world I believe I will have to remember this and throw fish at her often.  I do not believe I will ever tire of that.

We left the beach about eleven and Maji stopped in a real-estate office where the realtor was rather rude.  When broached with the topic of commercial real-estate this woman laughed and told us good luck.  Well then...

We left there and stopped for lunch at Applebees which had the most amazing fried shrimp.  Maji wanted local sea food but was afraid of getting food poisoning from some of the dives located along the beach.  

From there we decided to go down to River Street...  Where we drove around for two hours looking for parking!

We finally found parking in a hotel parking garage that was also offering public parking.  I might also add those were very narrow streets...  I was nervous at times...  Maji's driving frightens me...

River Street was interesting, though there were people driving on it which truly threw me off a bit.  You are not allowed to drive on the Augusta River Walk.  Though Maji truly had fun with it.

From there we took a Trolly ride and I must say.   If you are in the area and want to see everything, take the Trolly.  Take the Trolly with Hollywood.  Hollywood was part tour guide and part comedian.  I rather enjoyed the tour.  It's also good to know the lay of the land that I will one day rule.

We decided soon after that to head home and I am very proud of Maji.  For the first time she left Savannah and did not get lost once!  Now that was truly amazing.  

As always minions, if you see us...  Make sure to say hello.  I am badgering the writer to get creative and create T-shirts for us.

Until next time...

Karr

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TGIF

Friday is here!  Tomorrow the Traveling Karr is hitting the beach for some fun in the sun.  Well not really...  It's more a photography expedition than surf and waves.  Though for at least an hour we will be heading down to the water.

He'll have alot to say about it once we get back I'm sure.

Though that's not exactly why I decided to post something today.

Y'all ever hear of Twitter?  Sure ya have!  It's gaining popularity in leaps!  Anyway point being I'm now on Twitter as Majistar.  Check me out!  Karr has alot to say but I assure you I have more ;)

Though again...  Not what I wanted to post about.

I have...

A Friday Stupid People's Award!

Yay!!!!!!

Jon and Kate Plus Eight.

I'm sure all have heard of them unless you've been living under a rock.  (Which is possible for some I suppose.)  Anyway this woman literally got famous off of her uterus which alone disturbs me.  Now this guy is complaining.  He's saying that he's unhappy because he can't go into a store anymore without people knowing who he is and trying to take his picture.

What did you flippin' expect?  People try to take pictures of their local weather man because he's on T.V. and they think it's cool that they've seen him.  Hell they even try to take pictures of their local radio DJ's.  Let's face it people will take meeting a famous person in any form they can get it.

They don't care if it's some TLC reality show or a big movie star.  Your show is popular.  Your face is well known (Because you go out for a night on the town with a 23 year old without your wife and somehow that's not wrong.  Dude come on!)

How did you not know this would happen?

Now let me get something right here.  Jon is a saint.  If I had to listen for two minutes that screechy sound that comes out of that woman's mouth in the form of a voice I would be trolling for 23 year olds to.

Has anyone ever watched an episode where she wasn't screaming at the kids, her husband, some poor bystander and saying on the interviews that she had just had it for the day?  I haven't.  (Yes I do watch it sometimes.  It's my vice.  It reminds me never to have children.)

It makes me sad that these people have reproduced.  It also makes me sad that the children are actually smarter than they are.

So yeah...  Jon and Kate?  You've won the stupid people's award...

For the love of God don't produce any more!

Maji

Helen GA

As promised. The Traveling Karr returns with his views on our trip to
Helen GA...

Greetings Minions,

I have been again traveling with the writer. This time to an
interesting little place in GA. A small town by the name of Helen.
Now allow me to shed some light on this little town. You see Helen
was a dying town with about a 90% population of Germans. They decided
to clean up the town a bit and all got together and set it up with a
German theme... Yes you can go see Germany in Georgia. Who knew?

Anyway for this particular trip we were joined by an interesting
fellow. Russell. Russell has been Maji's best friend since high
school. Her BFF as she has often referred to him. This trip was an
interesting one because Maji took one look at the directions and
declared screw it. For map quest led her on a road that was vastly
inferior. She instead bought a road map of Georgia and studied it for
a few minutes before deciding that the best way to go would be to
simply follow highway seventeen. A very good judgement for it got us
there within' a fairly short amount of time. After driving along what
Russell claimed was the most boring road ever. In her grandmother's
car by the way. Dante the PT Cruiser had a tail light out.

I noticed something along this trip into the mountains of North
Georgia. There was a lot... and I mean A LOT of churches. I also
noticed something else. For ever church we spotted there was a liquor
store. And for every one of those we spotted there was four or five
cow pastures. There are alot of cows in Georgia...

Anyway we finally got to Helen about ten in the morning. Maji and
Russell stopped to eat breakfast at a huddle house. Which by the way
was much nicer and much cleaner than the local one. Though it still
had crappy service. What does this tell us? Clean up crap and give
it a nice new paint job and it still doesn't change the fact that it
started out as poo.

So survived the huddle house experience (Do yourself the favor and
don't eat the eggs) Maji then decided it was time to go shopping.
Five dollars to park in an empty, dirt lot. So did these people buy
the lot and decide to set up this business or did they just claim a
lot and set up shop? I don't know but wouldn't be my first career
choice. Anyway parked the car then hit the street. Alot of
interesting little shops. Alot of interesting places that have since
closed down to.

We walked up one side of the street and stopped at a real-estate
office and picked up some pamphlets in which Maji was rather irritated
because the man behind the counter couldn't seem to understand that
her and Russell were not a couple. So off again, back down the street
for a couple hours. We then hit the road again, to another Real-
Estate office and a building that the next man sent us out to look
at... (Maji gave up in trying to convince this man she and Russell
were not a couple.

Along the way we stopped at a stable because Maji wished to check out
the local horse area. This place was way over charging for boarding
fees by the way. It also wasn't the cleanest place in the world.
Maji declared that no horse of hers was stepping foot in that place
because apparently Angelous is now to good for dirt to be laid upon
his golden hide. Truly Maji. I don't care if you think you're the
boss of me. Get a life.

Though I will admit that the mud, the flies, and the dog poo didn't
exactly add to the lay out of the land...

Anyway from there we drove fifteen miles to see a bridge. You heard
me correctly. Fifteen miles to see one bridge. What kind of bridge
is so special that you drive fifteen miles to see one? Apparently a
covered bridge... It was half a barn over a creek for God's sake! It
was covered in graffiti and could hardly be called a bridge as when
looking down at your feet about half way across you could see the
river below. Not a bridge.

We then packed up and from there pretty much started the long trip home.

Though we can not close this out without explaining what happened upon
getting into Augusta which ended in Maji being banned from yet ANOTHER
establishment in the Augusta area. So what's the list up to now? She
can not go back into Best Buy, Pet's Mart, and now Burger King on
Peach Orchard Road has been added to the list. But for the record the
woman behind the counter did have an attitude and was very stupid.
Though Maji didn't have to actually throw a cheese burger at the girl
to get the point across. When I did that I was told I had an anger
issue. I do not have anger issues I might add. It is everyone else
who has a stupid issue.

That aside we did have a very nice time. We learned some things...
Figured some things out. Even got to meet a few interesting people.
(Guy from the magic shop? I still don't know how in the hell you made
that quarter appear. But when I find out I will rule you!)

Karr

Well that's it folks. We're going to Savannah this weekend so stay
tunes. Interesting things on the way!

Timely Changes

I am once again online at night.  I know, I know, no excuse for the length of time I tend to go without a word.  However, I do have good reasoning for it.

The Traveling Karr has been out and about again.  One at a time if you please!  So without further adue...  The Traveling Karr himself!

Greetings Minions,

I know you are all buzzing with curiosity of where my travels have fallen.  I have to say one of the latest trips has been interesting on all sides.

Two weeks ago we graced Hilton Head South Carolina with our presence.  An interesting little place and I have to say I rather well enjoyed it.  The Writer was forced to work the night before at the place where she earns her meager wages therefore we missed the first part of the trip.  As normally the writer is content to look out the window and snap plenty of pictures this was a change.

We slept in the back with the baggage.  Which made getting there very quick actually.  The last thing either of us remembers was the writer's father yelling out of the window in some town close to where she spent the first part of her life and asking someone if someone by the name of Brian was around...

Brian if you are out there...  We will find you.

He was not.  Up the road a few miles we stopped at a traffic light in a place called Rincon.  Again we did not see anything of this town.  However, they apparently have plenty of fire trucks.  We heard many sirens...  Apparently they were having trouble actually finding the fire as this went on for several minutes.

Finally we reached the hotel and I must say...  This place met every one of the Traveling Karr's high standards.  It was clean, very nice, and within' walking distance from the beach.  If you are traveling to Hilton Head I very much recommend the Holiday Inn Express.

Though on a side note...  You may want to avoid the elevator.  I tended to get a little nervous when it dropped a few inches every time someone stepped on.  However, despite the loud noises it made it did not fall...  Still though.  Take the stairs.  Not only is it good exercise but it will be less likely that you will die.

The first day we were there it rained quite a bit.  Which lead to the cause of a near death experience on a bridge in which a very large truck passed us on the left hand side and threw water across the windshield thus entirely blocking vision.  Mr. Truck?  I will find you...

We did make it out of that safely though.  

The next day proved for better weather.  The writer spent most of the day laying down by the beach, then by the pool, then walking around the island and shopping.  I spent most of the day tagging along.  I'll have you know I could entire go with the beach bumb look.  

It was a wonderful little outing.  We ate at one point at the salty frog.  If you go there order the club sandwich on potato bread.  Maji claims it was the most amazing club sandwich ever.  If you don't like sandwiches don't go there.  Everything else was horrible.  Unless of course you like spicy french fries.

We also ate pool side which I have to say...  Of all the places to eat, the pool side bar had the best fried shrip.  Go figure on that one...

Another good place was the Long Horn.  Very good fried shrimp, great steak, and an interesting atmosphere.  Though I have to say the dead stuffed animal hanging on the wall kinda gave me the creeps...

Then it was time to come home.  A very relaxing weekend and the trip home was uneventful.  Though I do resent the two and a half hours Maji spent at the outlet mall...  For shame...

Until next time loyal minions...

The Traveling Karr

That's all for now!  Stay tuned for Karr's account of last weekend's trip to Helen GA!

Maji