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"Damn it! We must have missed it!" We're already at the next town!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Turn around, then. The map says Hamburg, Illinois is right here." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"You were supposed to be looking." --------------------------------------------------------- |
"You were supposed to be looking." ----------------------------------------------------------- |
"Shut up." "No, you shut up." "No, you shut up." ------------------------------------------ |
"CUT IT OUT back there!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"We can't have driven through it. We saw no 'Main Street'! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
"We saw no 'Lincoln Street.' No public swimming pool, no 4th of July gazebo, no bar with broken Budweiser sign. None of the things that All Illinois Towns Must Have." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
"When we get to the cross of this road and county road NN that's Hamburg." --------------------------------------------------------- |
"Look for NN!" ----------------------------------------- |
"You look for NN!" ---------------------------------------------------- |
"I just said that!" ------------------------------------------- |
"Dut dut dut! CUT IT OUT!" ---------------------------------------------------- from - the - back - seat - grumbling ------------------ |
"Train! Train! Cool-O-sweet!" ------------------------------------------------------------ |
"Lemme pull up alongside the engine! We'll catch him!" ![]() |
"Now Dierk, Dierk! Put your hand up like this and pull down! Do it! Do it! Let the engineer see you!" ----------------------------------------- |
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"Möööööööööööp!"
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"Hee hee hee hee hee!" ----------------------------------- rare - wonderous - actual - "hee - hee" - Dierk - laugh ------------------------------------------- |
"Aha! Intersection ahead! County road NN!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Hee heeee hee hee hee!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Shit. Here we are." -------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Hee hee hee hee!" ------------------------------------------------------------- |
"Shit. This is 'it', I guess. Let's get out and 'explore' ." --------------------------------------------------------- |
"Lady and gentlemen, I give you . . . Hamburg, Illinois!"![]() |
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"It's so weird! Every German city has some kind of downtown. A church or something." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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"It's 'a different kind of city'. " ------------------------------------------------------ |
"Hee heee hee!" --------------------------------------------------- |
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"One house." ------------------------------------------------ |
"One flag." -------------------------------------------------------- of - Hamburg - Illinois - sole - resident - one - plastic - deer |
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"Hee hee heeeeee! Der fabled lost city! El Dorado." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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