Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Brain: I have a great idea for a gender swap story. WereWomen!
Jenn: Brain, we literally read that comic last year.
Brain: No this is different. I this story we...I mean...and...but...
Jenn: Yes?
Brain: It's the same story.

Today's Roadtrip: Vistas (2/2)

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Today's Roadtrip: Vistas (1/2)

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Today's Roadtrip: ART! ^ .^

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One of my other destinations was the ghost town of Skagit City, and after seeing Park, Florence and Bow, and seeing satellite views of where Skagit City was, I'd hoped there might be SOMETHING there. But nothing doing. Most of the houses aren't old at all, likely 1960s and up. But I did see a few farm houses here and there in the area, so I'll toss it here, along with the one building left of "Milltown" on the old Pacific Highway.

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After talking some history with a lawn-mowing resident of Bow, he suggested I visit Edison just down the way "they got buildings and everything." Edison, as it turns out, is a happening little town. A sign says "The Kindness Town," a pride flag greeted me coming into down, the tiny downtown was BUSY and I even saw a few artsy painted pro-choice signs in driveways. I could get to like this place.... (2/2)

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After talking some history with a lawn-mowing resident of Bow, he suggested I visit Edison just down the way "they got buildings and everything." Edison, as it turns out, is a happening little town. A sign says "The Kindness Town," a pride flag greeted me coming into down, the tiny downtown was BUSY and I even saw a few artsy painted pro-choice signs in driveways. I could get to like this place.... (1/2)

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The Not-Really-A-Ghost-Town-But-It's-Certainly-Not-The-Bustling-Town-It-Once-Was of Bow, WA.

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Awesome driftwood yard art in Bow, WA. (2/2)

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Awesome driftwood yard art in Bow, WA. (1/2)

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You can't fool me, that's a TARDIS. This is TOTALLY a TARDIS. Maybe it's my TARDIS. It's my TARDIS now.

Stay classy Snohomish County.

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It's hot. In AND out of doors.

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So something I'm trying to do with Tears of the Kingdom and my personal life is two days of gaming, one day of anything else.

When I did the first Play All The Zeldas Quest, the last parts of that happened when I was laid off. And I literally woke up, played games all day, and went to bed. For, like, two months.

Some people got very worried about me, and they were probably right. So today, I went on a roadtrip instead of playing Tears of the Kingdom. And I'm going to try and keep to that. Two days gaming, one day whatevs, until I'm done with the game.

And today I roadtripped. :)

Where I am now.

Hit my first snag in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. After getting out of the tutorial, and mapping the first area, I decided I'd hit Gerudo Town, since That's My Adopted Hometown in Breath of the Wild. I only had four hearts, though and one extra stamina bar.

It was pretty obvious that that might not be enough given the troubles I had getting there. But I did everything I needed to out of sheer powering through it (and a LOT of meals). Four hearts wasn't enough, but a maxxed out meal menu just kept the hearts up enough to plough through everything.

There was a puzzle, though, that I could NOT figure out for the life of me and after a hour of working on it, I gave in and looked for a walkthrough. Yeah, I wasn't supposed to spend an hour messing with the thing at all, and had solved that part of the puzzle within seconds of being there. -_-

Also the lack of hearts really came through in my first boss fight which just was straight up "One hit kills." And my first death in the game came from that one hit. :)

I'm really enjoying the game, though. The trip to Gerudo in BOTW was a trip, to be sure. But in TOTK? It feels like a JOURNEY. Like I'm REALLY going somewhere. Like they took the existing geography and made it more exansive and bigger. It LOOKS familiar, but looks BIGGER. Also, really loving that this FEELS like a a real sequel to BOTW. Same characters, a few years older and wiser (Majora's Mask wasn't a direct sequel, and the Wind Waker/Phantom Hourglass/Spirit Tracks trilogy were direct sequels, but with completely different characters).

Loving this game so far. But I can't play it Sunday...I need to get out and enjoy the sun while it's out there. :)

My first death...choosing Gerudo Town for my first was way way way above my health level. The fact that this was my first death was SUPER surprising. I am eating my way to victory, though....

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