# Help me come up with a daring scheme to escape Virginia! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498 "2002-08-12T06:50:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/21 "2002-08-13T23:02:12Z")
**fizzes** , sounds like we’re from the same neck of the woods. I don’t have any plans for escaping, as I really like it here. If you don’t mind me asking, what town are you from? I live in Bristol, and am familiar with most of the smaller surrounding towns, but can’t think of one without a MickeyD’s. I know Marion, Galax, Big Stone Gap, etc. all have them. I’m intrigued! ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/22 "2002-08-13T23:22:21Z")
Floyd?? ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2002, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/23 "2002-08-13T23:34:09Z")
Oh my goodness, you’re enamored of Portland, you say? ME TOO! Go to Portland, sometime I’ll head out there, at least there’ll be someone to meet, hahaha… In all seriousness, the road trip is a good idea. Go to all those places you’ve been wanting to visit. If you’re feeling really ambitious, get a trailer for your bicycle, and bike cross-country. Be prepared to live on peanut butter, though… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![fizzestothetop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e79b87/32.png) [@fizzestothetop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzestothetop)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/24 "2002-08-14T01:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jane\_says \* > \*\ ***fizzes** , sounds like we’re from the same neck of the woods. I don’t have any plans for escaping, as I really like it here. If you don’t mind me asking, what town are you from? I live in Bristol, and am familiar with most of the smaller surrounding towns, but can’t think of one without a MickeyD’s. I know Marion, Galax, Big Stone Gap, etc. all have them. I’m intrigued! \*\* Big Stone Gap is very close to where I’m at. I’m in Jonesville actually, and Jonesville does not have a MickeyD’s. Jonesville doesn’t have much of anything… I’m about an hour and a half from Bristol, maybe a little further. I got family there!🙂 **Grelby** Oh I simply adore Portland. My sister lives there so she showed me all the fun places to go when I was there. Saturday Market, Powell’s bookstore, Spartucus the porn shop, the Lloyd Center…It’s a great city. And it’s so…friendly? I’m planning on going back for another visit as soon as I have the money. **Neidhart** Floyd?? ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/25 "2002-08-14T01:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > **Neidhart** Floyd?? You’ve never been there? 😃 Passed through on a family vacation in the summer of 1980, had a chuckle at the “Floyd Barber Shop” because the Andy Griffith Show was one of my favorite programs. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2002, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/26 "2002-08-14T23:47:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\* > c) Road Trip. Take a year off and go see the country. Head for NYC and stay in a hostel for a month then head east. See things you’ve never seen and meet people you’ve never met. > > \*\* How exactly does one pay for this excursion? Save for a couple of years in advance? Work odd jobs? Freeload? It sounds interesting. ---
**Author:** ![CoderSlave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CoderSlave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoderSlave)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498/27 "2002-09-20T05:25:56Z")
Well, Fizze, If you are a hot girl between the ages of 18 to 25, I live in VA and am moving back to “Civilisation” (Cleveland, Ohio) soon. I need a roommate. If you are a kool guy thats OK too… (A female would be MUCH better though…much more…possibilities…) um…my 2 cents??? Da Slave of Da Code [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-come-up-with-a-daring-scheme-to-escape-virginia/123498.md?page=1)