Word of the Day: flexuous

flexuous (adj)

Sinuous; winding or bending; serpentine.

"Meanwhile Clare was meditating, verily. His thought had been unsuspended; he was becoming ill with thinking; eaten out with thinking, withered by thinking; scouraged out of all his former pulsating, flexuous domesticity. He walked about saying to himself, 'What's to be done - what's to be done?'...."
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

The Long and Flexuous Road -- that might be a good alternate name for this blahg.

The most flexuous highway I've ever been on was Route 1 in California several years ago. A rough ride. It's a twisty cliff-side thoroughfare with scary drop-offs -- the ocean on one side and a sheer rock wall on the other, like something out of a Road Runner cartoon. The constant curves made me a bit carsick, but at least the drive up the coast was never boring: I feared we were about to plummet over the edge almost every minute, like that opening scene in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. The views of the Pacific were inspiring, though, so I recommend the route. Just don't eat first.