Thursday, April 30, 2009

Objects Are Closer Than They May Appear Goddamnit

objects closer

Day 1

I love my car.
I love driving.
I love road trips.
I love the anticipation of what's to come.

I hate discomfort.
I hate smelly gas station bathrooms.
I hate Sebastian (sometimes).
I hate objects that are closer than they appear.

I'm sure all can understand the majority of points above, but the one item 

that really stuck me today was the object.  In specific, the object that may 

be closer than it appears.  Yesterday I sat looking at the map 

thinking.......Indiana........just a mere 18 hours away.  It turns out that 18 

hours in a Lotus Elise is not pleasurable; even less so with a tall, hairy, 

loquacious, fermenting Polack as co-pilot.  Suffice it to say, we made it as 

far as Iowa and we have 5 hours remaining as I write this.


A mostly uneventful day with most of the time cruising along at 90mph 

(averaging an unbelievable 28mpg) and passing the time by trying to 

tally the near endless number of late 90's Mercury Sables......almost all 

of them in gold.


Spirits are still good and ambitions still high.  For those we didn't tell 

prior to leaving, we have a gentlemen's bet amongst the three teams 

from Evergreen.  The short of it has the two losing teams hanging a 

picture (of the winning team in full race regalia) in their respective living 

rooms for an entire year!



Cheers to coming third from last!!!

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