11/1-15: I don't wanna go back to school!

Fraternity house no. 1

Fraternity house no. 2

Fraternity house no. 3

Og i protest over at det var min sidste weekend inden skolen startede, skyndte jeg mig at få stablet en sidste udflugt på benene - denne gang med Logan, Adrianna og Zach og turen gik til Tallahassee - Floridas "hovedstad" - ca. 2 timer fra Valdosta. 

Vi havde pakket cykler på ladet af Logan's gamle truck (så er de trucks altså lidt handy en gang i mellem), da der skulle være en rigtig flot rute at cykle dernede, og så havde vi booket et billigt hotel. 

Der var to muligheder for cykelruten - "The Historic Trail" eller naturvejen. Den historiske rute var en gammel jernbane som var blevet asfalteret, så vi valgte selvfølgelig naturvejen som var en masse smalle ruter inde i skoven - ud og ind imellem træerne. 

Rimeligt hurtigt fik vi og cykelproblemer og Zach og Adrianna måtte falde fra. 

Logan og jeg fik cyklet omkring 12 km. på ruterne inde i skoven inden vi vendte tilbage til bilen - det var virkelig sjovt selvom vi nok ikke havde det rigtige udstyr.. :-) 

Om aftenen tog vi i byen, men her støder man igen ind i at alting lukker kl.02 (det er altså et underligt land det her...) 

Det betød jo så til gengæld at vi var friske dagen efter (næsten), til at gå en lang tur i centrum og ned til Florida State University, som har et af de største campus jeg nogensinde har set. 

Vi havde fået at vide at man absolut skulle se deres stadion, som så viste sig at ligge i den modsatte ende af hvor vi kom fra, så de vi endelig nåede derned, og fandt et sted at spise frokost, havde vi lige 5,5 km. gåtur hjem igen.. 

Adrianna læser samfundsfag/political science, så vi fik en masse gode og interessante snakke om amerikansk politik, socialisme, liberalisme, republikanere m.m. på turen derned - på turen hjem faldt vi ret hurtigt i søvn :-) 

De sidste par billede er fra området omkring FSU og et par af de mange "frat"-houses der er der. Der var også sorority houses modsat her i Valdosta hvor vi kun har frat-houses. 

Forklaringen som de andre kunne komme op med er at der i Lowndes kommune åbenbart er en lov om at der kun må bo 4 kvinder under samme tag før det bliver anset for at være et bordel?.. Eller noget..

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And as a protest to the fact that it was my last weekend before school started, I quickly managed to somehow arrange one last trip - this time with Logan, Adrianna and Zach and the destination was Tallahassee - Florida's state capitol a 2 hour drive from Valdosta. 

We had loaded our bikes on to the Logan's old truck (I must admit those big trucks can come in handy at times), since we had heard that Tallahassee should have some pretty cool trails for biking. We had also booked a cheap hotel so we could stay the night and make the most of the weekend.

There was two types of trails - The historic version and the nature version. The historic trail in Tallahassee is an old railroad that they have paved - so we of course chose the natural trail, which was a bunch of different narrow paths in and out of the St. Marks state park. 

Too quickly we ran into some bicycle problems and Adrianna and Zach had to go back to the car. 

Logan and I managed to go about 7-8 miles on the trails in the park before heading back - it was a lot of fun even though we probably didn't have the right equipment.. :-)

We went out at night, but once again you run into the problem that everything closes at 2AM (this country is so weird..) 

On the other hand it meant that we were well rested (almost) the day after to go for a long walk in downtown Tallahassee and all the way out to FSU, which has the biggest campus I've ever seen. 

Someone had told us that we absolutely needed to see their stadium, but it turned out to be on the very opposite end of campus from where we started. By the time we got there and found a place to have lunch, we had a 3.5 mile walk back to the car. 

Adrianna is a political science major and we had a lot of great and interesting talks about American politics, socialism, liberals, republicans, etc. on the way to Tallahassee - on the way back we pretty quickly fell asleep :-)

The last couple of pictures are of some of the many frat houses around FSU. We do not have fraternities or sororities in Denmark, so this is something very new to me. 

When walking around we noticed that there were also sorority houses, which we don't have in Valdosta. 

The explanation the others gave me was that apparently there is a law in Lowndes County that only 4 women can live together under the same roof before they consider it being a brothel?.. Or something like that..