As for the vacation-I'm from the west but isn't Lexington a civil war site? There should be some fascinating history and museums there.
It wasn't a Civil War battle site, but there are plenty of interesting things to see, if you're into history and historic home tours (Mary Todd Lincoln's family home, for example).
The problem is, historical sites and museums are only really interesting to someone who actually finds that sort of thing interesting. And Amber, who barely made it through high school, and bombed out of her first year at a community college, is just pig-ignorant. She has no education, either in the formal sense, or even in the sense that she's interested in things and decides to learn about them on her own. And she doesn't care.
Plus, places like that involve walking, and historic houses don't have elevators (or heavy-duty benches for her to plop down on every 20 feet or so). Amber can barely weeble her way across a flat surface, and getting upstairs to collapse into bed is a huge effort for her. They're also going at the hottest time of year, and it gets humid as fuck. So anywhere without serious AC, and that involves walking even a short distance, is going to be off the agenda.
I'm sure you and I could find all kinds of cool stuff to see, do, and--yes--eat in Lexington. But I'm pretty sure we're both curious, open to new experiences, value education (and see it as a lifelong process), are mobile enough to go just about anywhere, and are willing to put up with the discomfort of a hot, humid day to go see something we wouldn't otherwise. And what I've just described? That's the antithesis of Amber.
They'll probably end up at an enclosed, air-conditioned mall, where Amber will buy the same trinkets from Claire's and Target she could have bought at home.
Even if your life revolves around food, there are probably interesting local cuisines and family run restaurants. You can go to a Cheesecake Factory anywhere in the country, there is nothing different about it.
They'll eat in the mall food court. Later, they'll go to the Cheesecake Factory, or PF Chang's, or Olive Garden, because local specialties are too unfamiliar to risk.
Someone, many pages back, posted a great comment about how the superobese are actually incredibly picky eaters who avoid novelty, preferring to eat familiar favorites, and getting anxious when confronted with something unexpected. And that's Amber, to a T.
She's dumb, with no curiosity. Even her main interest in life, she doesn't gain expertise in. She could be a foodie and a good cook, but she just wants to shovel fat and salt into her gaping maw.
She could be a foodie in the same way a homeless alcoholic could be a sommelier.
She's an addict. Therefore, she is not interested in food itself; she is only interested in the endorphin rush she gets from various combinations of sugar, salt, fat, and cheap starches. She gets a similar rush from buying cheap crap and possessing it--and it's just as short-lived.
Really, her only interest in life is feeding her addiction, and, to that end, getting other people to enable her.
Exactly. In that "truth about our sex life" video AL talks about how she has no desire to ever leave the country. One of the viewer questions was "what is the first thing you associate with England?" and Destiny said Dr. Who. AL said she doesn't think of anything regarding England, and would never want to go there. Such a boring, limited world view where all that exists is food, shopping, and laying around, all while boasting about how good she is at things. It sounds made up, like how does this person exist and continuously get new people to date her?
She's dumb, ignorant, and has a woefully limited worldview, but mostly? She's terrified of the world, of life, and of others' expectations and demands on her as an adult human. She really just wants to hide out in her own house, where she can do everything on her terms, and get others to take her to familiar, "safe" places she likes. Being an immobile, superobese shut-in would be perfectly okay with her, as long as she can land a willing enabler to take care of her. Getting up and leaving the house to go to Walmart and Cheesecake Factory is already strenuous and uncomfortable, so I'm sure she'd willingly give it up if she had someone willing to bring her to-go orders (so she could do mukbangs) and bring packages in off the porch (so she could do unboxing/haul vids).
As for how she keeps getting new girlfriends, there are a lot of damaged, insecure people out there, who will allow someone like Amber to walk all over them--at least for a while. Destiny had youth and inexperience going against her, but fortunately she seems to have wised up a little. And another thing: there's an appalling number of people out there whose interests, intelligence, and worldview are just as narrow as Amber's. Dumb, ignorant, incurious people are easy to find; it's finding smart, interesting people that's (relatively) hard.