28 Follow Your Nose

Chapter 28 FOLLOW YOUR NOSE The rain was still coming down hard as Dr. McDonald pulled the RV onto I-565 out of Huntsville, Alabama, heading west. He could barely see through the windshield and almost missed the exit to turn onto Route 24. For the sake of safety, both parents agreed that it would be best to stop for the night as soon as possible. It took awhile to reach it, but they finally pulled into Slickrock, a campground in Russellville, Alabama. By dawn, the sky had cleared and they got back on the road early. Soon they were on I22, when they saw this....

第二十八章跟着鼻子走雨还在下着。 麦克唐纳把房车开到阿拉巴马州亨茨维尔的565号州际公路上，向西行驶。 他几乎看不见挡风玻璃，几乎错过了24号公路的出口。 为了安全起见，父母双方一致认为最好尽快停下来过夜。 他们花了一段时间才到达那里，但最终驶入了阿拉巴马州拉塞尔维尔的一个露营地——斯莱克罗克。 黎明时分，天空放晴了，他们早早地回到了路上。 很快他们就到了I22，当他们看到这个....

WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI Birthplace of America's Music "Woo-hoo," hollered Coke. "The Magnolia State!" "Umm, can you smell the honeysuckle yet?" asked Mrs. McDonald. "No, but I'm starting to smell the holding tank," her husband replied. "Coke, it's time you did a dump." "Okay, okay, Dad." "What are we going to do in Mississippi?" Pep asked. "Can we go to Yazoo City?" asked Coke. "What's in Yazoo City?" asked his father. "I don't know," Coke said. "I just like saying Yazoo City."

欢迎来到密西西比，美国音乐的发源地。“哇！”可口可乐喊道。 “木兰之州！”“嗯，你闻到金银花的味道了吗？”麦克唐纳太太问。 “没有，但我开始闻到储罐的味道了，”她丈夫回答说。 “可口可乐，你该去拉屎了” “好吧，好吧，爸爸。”“我们在密西西比怎么办？”Pep问道。 “我们能去亚祖城吗？”可口可乐问。 “亚祖城有什么？”他父亲问。 “我不知道，”可口可乐说。 “我只是喜欢说亚祖市。”

Mrs. McDonald opened her Road Guide to Mississippi and started leafing through it. "Let's see," she said. "Root beer was invented in Biloxi … Greenville is the towboat capital of the world … the International Checkers Hall of Fame is in Petal …" "Oh, that sounds real interesting," Coke said, stifling a yawn. "… the world's largest shrimp is on display in Pascagoula," Mrs. McDonald continued. "And oooh, look! The man who invented the dollar sign is buried near Pinckneyville!" Dr. McDonald was getting increasingly irritated. With every offbeat destination his wife suggested, he would roll his eyes, shake his head, and let out a groan. "The world's largest cedar bucket is in Oxford," Mrs. McDonald continued, "and in 1884, at a shoe store in Vicksburg, a man named Phil Gilbert came up with the idea of selling left and right shoes together in the same box!" (Note to the reader: This stuff is true. I

麦克唐纳太太打开她的《密西西比之路指南》，开始翻阅。 “让我看看，”她说。“沙士是在比洛克西发明的……格林维尔是世界拖船之都……国际象棋名人堂就在佩塔尔……”“哦，听起来真有意思，”科克说着，忍住了一个哈欠。 “……世界上最大的虾在帕斯卡古拉展出，”麦克唐纳夫人继续说。 “哦，看！”发明美元符号的人就埋在平克尼维尔附近！”博士。 麦克唐纳越来越生气了。 每次听到妻子建议的另类目的地，他都会翻白眼、摇头、呻吟。 “世界上最大的雪松桶在牛津，”麦克唐纳夫人继续说道，“1884年，在维克斯堡的一家鞋店里，一个名叫菲尔·吉尔伯特的人想出了一个主意，把左右双鞋放在同一个盒子里卖！”(读者注意：这是真的。 我

didn't make any of it up. Go ahead and Google it if you don't believe me.) "How did they sell shoes before that?" Pep asked. "One at a time, I guess," said Mrs. McDonald. "Who would buy one shoe?" asked Coke. "A one-legged man?" At that point, Dr. McDonald reached the point of exasperation. He grabbed the Road Guide to Mississippi out of his wife's hand. "Tell you what," he said. "Forget about the stupid guidebook." And with that, he threw Road Guide to Mississippi out the window. "Ben!" "Dad!" "Our lives are too planned out," Dr. McDonald said. "That's what's wrong with the world today. We need a guidebook for everything. Why go anywhere anymore? You can just read about places in a guidebook or

这些都不是我编的。如果你不相信我，就去b谷歌吧。)“在那之前他们是怎么卖鞋的？”Pep问道。 “我想一次一个，”麦克唐纳太太说。 “谁会买一只鞋？”可口可乐问道。 “一条腿的人？”在那一点上。 麦克唐纳到了恼怒的地步。 他从妻子手中夺过《通往密西西比的道路指南》。 “告诉你吧，”他说。“忘了那本愚蠢的旅游指南吧。” 说完，他就把《密西西比公路指南》扔出了窗外。 “本!”“爸爸!”“我们的生活计划得太多了。” 麦克唐纳说。“这就是当今世界的问题所在。 我们需要一本旅游指南。 为什么还要去别的地方？你可以在旅游指南或者

watch a video. Let's be spontaneous for a change. Let's just wing it!" "I can't believe you did that, Ben!" shouted Mrs. McDonald. "I would never throw your things out the window." "I can't take it anymore!" Dr. McDonald hollered, taking his hands off the steering wheel for a moment. "Who cares about root beer and checkers and how shoes used to be sold? I say we head west and follow our noses. That's what the pioneers did when they settled this country. They didn't have guidebooks. They relied on their instincts." In the back, Coke and Pep rushed to grab their cell phones so they could text each other. Coke: That was AWESOME! Pep: Dad is going mental She may have been right. Dr. McDonald was not known for his spontaneity. He was a planner, a list maker, a scheduler, an

看视频。让我们自发地做出改变。 让我们即兴发挥吧！”“我真不敢相信你这么做了，本！”麦克唐纳太太喊道。 “我绝不会把你的东西扔出窗外。” “我再也受不了了！”博士。 麦克唐纳喊道，把双手从方向盘上移开了一会儿。 “谁会关心沙士和跳棋，以及过去鞋子是怎么卖的？” 我说我们向西走，跟着鼻子走。 拓荒者在这个国家定居时就是这么做的。 他们没有旅游指南。 他们依靠自己的直觉。” 在后面，可口可乐和佩普赶紧拿起他们的手机，这样他们就可以互相发短信了。 科克：太棒了！佩普：爸爸要疯了。她可能是对的。 麦克唐纳医生的自发性并不出名。 他是一个计划者，一个列清单的人，一个日程安排者

alphabetizer. But the family had been riding around in the little RV for more than two weeks now. If you take laboratory rats and confine them in an enclosed space for a long period of time, they start acting strange. They become aggressive; they fight and engage in other antisocial behaviors. People are no different. For the next few minutes, the RV was filled with the unpleasant sound of angry silence. The twins were afraid to say anything. Mrs. McDonald was fuming. Her husband had never been a mean man, and it wasn't like him to act so impulsively. She felt lost without a guidebook, just like he felt lost without his GPS. "I'm going to stop at the first decent-size town we come to," Dr. McDonald said, hoping to break the silence. "We'll get out and explore. You never know what you might find." But there were no towns in sight—just a lot of nothing out the window on I-22. It wasn't until they had driven almost thirty miles that a

依字母顺序排列。但这家人已经开着那辆小房车转了两个多星期了。 如果你把实验室里的老鼠长时间关在一个封闭的空间里，它们会开始表现得很奇怪。 他们变得好斗；他们会打架并做出其他反社会行为。 人也一样。接下来的几分钟，RV充满了令人不快的愤怒的沉默的声音。 那对双胞胎什么都不敢说。 麦克唐纳太太勃然大怒。她的丈夫从来不是个小气的人，行事如此冲动也不像他的作风。 没有旅行指南，她感到迷茫，就像他没有GPS感到迷茫一样。 “我要在我们到达的第一个像样的城镇停下来。” 麦克唐纳说，希望打破沉默。 “我们会出去探索。 你永远不知道你会发现什么。” 但视野里没有城镇——只有I-22号公路上窗外一片空白。 直到他们开了将近三十英里，我才发现