...drive ever. Ok so here is the deal, I'm not from Florida originally. I've been living here for 3 years now and every year I make the same long trip back home. 1500 miles roughly, actually I think its slightly over that, but thats about the average. In '05 I made the trip, in June, by myself. I managed to get from Boca Raton Florida, to Baltimore Maryland in 1 day. I then drove the rest of the way on day number 2 arriving about 2pm. Needless to say it was a long journey but for the most part I didn't mind doing it because I was excited about taking such a long drive alone, sort of earning my wings if you will.
2006 came along and I had managed to convince my friend Alex and her mother to come with me on the trip. It meant that I didn't get to spend time with my friends because we had to cut the trip short, but in an effort to gain a little time I decided that I was going to upgrade my rank and pull off the entire trip in 1 day. I waited until Alex got out of work at 5pm, picked her up and drove her to her apartment. We then packed her and her mothers belongings into my car, and by about 7pm we were on the road. 26hours and only 3 stops later we were in NH. The beauty behind the idea of making the trip that way was that we would start late, I would be rested, and as we drove through the night they could sleep and I could drive without having to stop except when the car needed gas. So by the time they woke up around 8:30 we were already in North Carolina and approaching Virginia. Then because I had already proved that I could do the trip without stopping I decided the ride home would be a little more relaxed and we took the 2 day route going back.
Here I am 2007.... and I can't get anyone to take the trip with me. So I'm back to where I was 2 years ago and I am planning to drive it alone again. To be honest I am not as excited about it as I was when I did it in 05 because I have already done it a number of times, and when I head back to Florida, I'm gonna be still by myself.
So any of you people that are crazy, if you have nothing to do and would like to see the entire Eastern side of the United states and can get the weekend of the 30th / 1st off... let me know if you would like to take the drive. All ya gotta do is get to florida, everything else will be covered by me! The rest of the trip I will pay for even if we decide not to do the 26 hour drive straight through (I am planning on taking 2 days right now) and take our time the experience is paid for.
Well unless someone writes me back and says "I wanna go", then I'll be doing this one by myself. I'm sure it will leave me with plenty to talk about later.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Vandalizing another part of the web
Ok, here I am on what is now officially my 3rd blog site... I haven't updated my first one in a couple years, and I've pretty much forgotten about it. My second site is my myspace site, and since I have nothing better to do with my time I am checking it constantly.
So here I am with my 3rd blogging site... wonderful. Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism...I am a vandal.
Anyway, I wanted to get this started because I figure there would be a few people to check it out once in a while, that don't check out myspace. I started thinkin about things and how life has changed from when I began school 2 years ago, and then I started thinking about how everything has changed from when I started college in 1996.
I was naive, and I thought I knew a lot more than I did. I was a Star Wars nut (and at the time the movies hadn't been re-released, so it wasn't cool to be into Star Wars) and I had a roommate that loved basketball and smokin up. Well to make a long story short, the kid I was rooming with decided to smoke all of the tea leaves that the asian girls that I was hanging with gave me, and he would come in at 3am dribbling a basketball when I was asleep, so I decided that he had to go. He roomed with me for 2 weeks before I finally drove him out, and then I was on my own again. I met a few people on my floor and the next thing ya know the nightcrawlers were formed. 6 guys + No Cars = Late nights and create your own entertainment.
So in my infinite wisdom I decided that I would also do my best to drive some teachers slightly crazy. Professor Phil Funk, and Professor Karen Stone got the worst of my stupidity when they said "If you have another name that you prefer to be called, please let me know so I can make note of it." And just to get a reaction from my friends when they called "Ryan" I raised my hand and in the more serious way I could without hesitation I said "They call me Yoda". So for the next 4 years I was known as Yoda by both teachers.
Well the next 4 years were interesting... I think I will cut the writing of this blog short, and include a video that is sure to make Keith (blogger of the reverse-peephole) hit the floor laughing because we both watched this on tv one night before passing out, and damn near killed ourselves laughing.
So here I am with my 3rd blogging site... wonderful. Functionless art is simply tolerated vandalism...I am a vandal.
Anyway, I wanted to get this started because I figure there would be a few people to check it out once in a while, that don't check out myspace. I started thinkin about things and how life has changed from when I began school 2 years ago, and then I started thinking about how everything has changed from when I started college in 1996.
I was naive, and I thought I knew a lot more than I did. I was a Star Wars nut (and at the time the movies hadn't been re-released, so it wasn't cool to be into Star Wars) and I had a roommate that loved basketball and smokin up. Well to make a long story short, the kid I was rooming with decided to smoke all of the tea leaves that the asian girls that I was hanging with gave me, and he would come in at 3am dribbling a basketball when I was asleep, so I decided that he had to go. He roomed with me for 2 weeks before I finally drove him out, and then I was on my own again. I met a few people on my floor and the next thing ya know the nightcrawlers were formed. 6 guys + No Cars = Late nights and create your own entertainment.
So in my infinite wisdom I decided that I would also do my best to drive some teachers slightly crazy. Professor Phil Funk, and Professor Karen Stone got the worst of my stupidity when they said "If you have another name that you prefer to be called, please let me know so I can make note of it." And just to get a reaction from my friends when they called "Ryan" I raised my hand and in the more serious way I could without hesitation I said "They call me Yoda". So for the next 4 years I was known as Yoda by both teachers.
Well the next 4 years were interesting... I think I will cut the writing of this blog short, and include a video that is sure to make Keith (blogger of the reverse-peephole) hit the floor laughing because we both watched this on tv one night before passing out, and damn near killed ourselves laughing.
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