Just got back home after driving up to Pennsylvania yesterday and back to Columbia today. I’m decompressing from the pressure. After all, 273 miles of today’s 573-mile haul were spent in Virginia, where we faced the threat of immediate annihilation from the air if we went a little too fast.
I don’t really know how else to take these signs you find throughout the state. They don’t say that you are monitored from the air or anything, they say the speed limits will be enforced from the air, which I can only imagine being done with air-to-ground missiles, or maybe one of those remarkable machine-cannons they have in the A-10 Warthog that fires like 4,000 depleted uranium rounds per minute.
Anyway, I feel lucky to be home. And I’m too tired to blog. I’ll just update you with my Tweets from the way up and back:
About to drive to Pennsylvania again today, and boy does the weather ever look dirty to the north…8:45 AM Aug 14th from web
Germany and France have pulled out of recession, but US and UK lag. Let’s get it in gear, Anglophones…8:59 AM Aug 14th from web
Stopped for a few minutes at the Barnes & Noble in Harrisonburg, Va., again. Gotta get back on 81 and flog that Yaris on up to central PA…5:57 PM Aug 14th from web
“Magical Mystery Tour” on the CD player, cruising up the valley…6:01 PM Aug 14th from web
I’ve been driving all day; my hands wet on the wheel. Literally — I’m not paraphrasing lyrics. Don’t know why my palms are sweating so…7:20 PM Aug 14th from web
Unless I’ve made a miscalculation, this rental Yaris is getting 43.599 mpg!7:23 PM Aug 14th from web
I’m in Carlisle, PA, home of the US Army War College, the place that launched Jim Thorpe, and home of a top ballet academy. A town of im …about 22 hours ago from web
… Meant to say, “…a town of impressive parts…”about 22 hours ago from web
Another cool thing about Central PA — I sat outside a country house near Carlisle & enjoyed a leisurely beer under the crisp stars: not …about 22 hours ago from web
(Cont.)…not one mosquito bite in the wonderfully cool night air…about 22 hours ago from web
About to eat at my favorite place in PA — the Middlesex Diner, with those nice, fat sausages & home fries!about 13 hours ago from web
Man, but that Central Pennsylvania breakfast was good! About time to mosey back to SC now…about 13 hours ago from web
Glittery-clean rest area in Virginia — literally. They’ve got like flecks of mica in the floor…about 10 hours ago from web
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Silly Brad, they only wanted to use the Warthogs and missiles when Cheney was going to use the military to round up Americans who were terrorist sympathizers.
So what am I doing wrong? Here I am working 2 jobs and I’m still not able to keep up with the flood of bills that keep coming in. Yet jobless Brad somehow manages to take 2 trips to Pennsylvania, a trip to the beach AND continues to regularly take clothes to the dry cleaners. If it sounds like I’m jealous you’re right, I am.
Then again, Brad has apparently done an excellent job saving for a rainy day. And I’m not being flippant when I say this: Brad you give us all hope that there is life after work. I just wish there was life WITH work.
Bud–Brad is driving a *Yaris* to PA! That’s how he does it!
My hands would be sweaty driving one of those, too.
Brad-Impressive parts–bad bad bad…how were the tan lines?
As far as the Enforced by Air–insert Andre Bauer joke here.