some america!jakes headcanons bc i miss home and peter jakes a lil rn (even though i KNOW arizona and wyoming arent the same but we’re still both the ~wild west~)
jakes trying a sam adams for the first time and being absolutely disgusted because american beer really. is not that good. controversial perhaps but it really isnt
hope has extended family in the southwest so they go to her cousin’s wedding in sedona together and jakes sees a scorpion for the first time and he’s like whoa what the fuck why is the wildlife here trying to fucking kill me????
his absolute wonder at seeing a sunset, like a real one, for the first time, because sunsets in the western united states are so gorgeous it’s unreal
hope always likes looking at nature and scenery so he always suggests they go on outings and she’s like “nah you don’t have to” bc she thinks he might be bored but he insists because he loves her so much and so he drives but he always forgets that driving in the states is nothing like driving in the uk bc back home a 2 hour drive means you have completely left oxfordshire but in the states 2 hours means you’re still….trapped in wyoming
that said when he did drive them to hope’s cousin’s wedding in sedona she took over driving because he was so fucking bored
also he occasionally drives on the wrong side of the road or prepares to exit the interstate on the wrong side because he blanks out and forgets that he’s not in the uk
the first time he smells cow shit it’s unreal, he can’t stop choking on the smell of it. i’m 100% not joking here, if you’ve ever driven along I-10 and I-5 to get from like phoenix to norcal like san jose and you drive by that part of the interstate where there’s just tons of cattle ranches randomly……like even with the wonders of modern technology you could turn off the AC and roll up the windows of your car but the stench is just. unreal. can’t describe it but now imagine peter jakes in like the poorly ventilated 1970s smelling that shit
he nearly dies of dehydration during the first summer in wyoming because it’s just. awful. he’s never experienced dry heat like that. he’s literally thinking about how hope’s parents just live like this all the time. like they really just …..exist. in heat. like that.
but going back to hope’s cousin’s wedding in sedona, which is held in october because arizona is perfect weather in the fall, he’s totally shook by how nice the weather is and still has trouble comprehending how it can just. not rain
but he’s also very freaked by monsoons and flash floods and the first time he experiences a dust storm he’s like wtf yall live like this??? yall just. see a giant cloud of dust tryna eat u and ur ok with it?
his absolute wonder at the national parks and natural wonders in the western united states…seeing yellowstone for the first time and watching old faithful erupt? when hope takes him to the grand canyon and he stands at the northern rim and looks down at the colorado river rushing below them and he just can’t believe a place this beautiful exists in the world, because the grand canyon really is just absolutely breathtaking
that said i mean just imagine him and hope taking a road trip and driving down through nevada and into northern arizona through all those pine forests. he has to write to morse because this is just the most incredible place.
i just think about peter jakes in the us all the time ok
prguitarman
dailybridgerton
discoholicmusic
romaincrisis
turnnoffyourmind
dededos
pixelskylines
tangentwithtanner
