we made it!!! and a parable explained...

okay, i'm in new york! just out of the city, actually, in new rochelle, westchester county, or something like that. we went 3,047 miles in five days. pretty slow normally, but blazing fast if you realize that we were trailing a 5 x 10 trailer with a 4 cylinder jeep. so, here we are, but my journey's just started.

first off, i have to get to lynn, mass, tomorrow BY 1 PM in order to play some rugby. then i have to get to portland to meet up with some people. THEN i can rest. sunday's an off-day. and dammit, i need one! i just want to sit on the couch, do nothing and let lethargy take me over.

it's been a hell of a trip, crossing california, arizona, new mexico, texas, oklahoma, missouri, illinois, pennsylvania, new jersey and now we're here just outside the Big Apple - but i have one anecdote i want to share. you know the whole glass half full/half empty parable? well, mikey solved it. and i'm here to explain it: there are two answers to this, because of two very important things: gas tanks and bladders. gas tanks exist to be emptied. so, if there's half a tank left, it's half EMPTY. bladders, on the other hand, exist to be filled. so when you are about halfway away from your eyeballs floating, you're half FULL.

folks, we're here to help you...

missing the valley, can't wait to get back!!

halfway home!

sorry, sorry, sorry!

well, sorry to all three of you who read this. however, i know i was supposed to be updating this diligently, but, what can you do... it's harder to find internet access than i thought.

BUT, i'll give a quick overview of the past three days:

DAY 1: san diego, CA to Demin, NM. at least i think that's what the name was. anyway, it was all desert, and i mean all desert. going through tuscon, AZ was a bit anticlimactic and that's about it. at least mikey and i fart a lot. but we already knew that. and, we found it's helpful to play our tunes loud so when we sing with them we can't hear each other...

DAY 2: demin, NM to elk city, OK. this was a good one. we went through albequerque (sp?) and saw a funeral procession for a slain police officer that stretched for miles on the highway, i mean probably 10 miles, shut down a major highway going westbound and pissed off the truckers something wicked. we have a CB in the jeep, and it was something to hear the truckers rant. also, elk city, OK has probably the nicest holiday inn in the world.

TODAY (day 3): elk city, OK to collinsville, IL. we made this day up with the intention of going to the bud brewery in st. louis and getting the tour. well, we made it to st. louis, but found that those anheuser/busch assholes closed the gates on us before we could get there... so, we told st. louis (and the west bank of the mississippi) to eff off and we headed into illinois. had BBQ at the bandana's across from our lovely comfort inn, and we're headed to PA and amish country tomorrow.

we haven't killed each other, all is going great, and i have no idea in the world about how i'm going to manage to play in my rugby match saturday! pray for bad weather or something, i guess...

we're almost 2,000 miles in, and the U-haul's still hitched to the jeep. that alone is an accomplishment.

wish us well, and mahalo!

ROAD TRIP!

i got a phone call last sunday from my best bud, who lives out in sunny san diego, CA. hey, how's it going, all that stuff, and then he tells me that he's moving back east. that's great! awesome to hear, i'm really glad he's moving home, blah blah blah.

then he gets to the meat of the matter: do i want to fly out there and do a cross-country trip back with him? and it's all taken care of, as well. hmmmm...

done, and done.

i'm flying out tomorrow. keep checking here for my location and our adventures!

are you kidding me?!

drew over at fark.com said it best: we're being followed by "Generation Wuss". this is unbelievable.

yeah, it's been a while, but this really irked me.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.baseball22mar22,0,7892062.story