Road Trip ~ Part 2
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azdmn19I Think Not(t).
Sometimes I think. Sometimes, not(t) so much. These are my thoughts, or not.
Yesterday I drove back to Pittsburgh after a wonderful week spent with my Dad and a few select friends. I wish I could have seen some more friends, but time did not allow. However, the friends I did get to spend time with were fun, fantastic, fabulous and awesome (as was the time spent).
With the TV (and a few other select items my Dad so generously gave to me) in tow, I hoped into my car. Thus I began my drive back home for the 3rd longest solo drive ever. Again, I chose to keep myself amused by keeping a mental log of observations along the journey back. This time, I thought it best to have a pen and paper handy (but more about the pen, later). To mix things up a bit and see different things, I chose to go back a different way. Funny thing is Google Maps and Magellan have intellectual arguments as to the best way to travel. The journey to Albany was Magellan's "idea", and the journey home was the "Google's".
Once upon a time, I used to travel with a bf and he and I used to play the license plate game - keeping track of the States that we saw. We'd jot down each State we saw and try not to be competitive, as if (!), but to this day, I still look at the license plates when I travel. In earnest this trip - I decided to go for a personal best; so, hence the need for the pen because I didn't think I would be able to remember which of the 50 States plus a few Canadian Provinces I would see (or not{t}). The pen did NOT(T) want to cooperate so I had to stop to recover this pesky pen as it chose to hide under the passenger seat until I chose to keep a firm grip on it.
Without further ado, in case you are still reading along, the 29 plates I saw were: NY, Maryland, ND, OK, Maine, NJ, TN, Indiana, IL, PA, MI, MO, Michigan, Ohio, NC, FL, CA, TX, WI, Iowa, MA, CT, UT, SC, Nebraska, WV, RI, Ontario, Quebec ... 27 + 2 = 29... not bad for a days' drive.
Some More Trip Observations:
The highest elevation was 2383 feet - Cresson Summit, somewhere outside Altoona. I obviously didn't notice this on my journey to Albany.
Counted only 14 piles of roadkill: 2 deer, raccoon, and many unrecognizable lumps of ick.
Took 4 pit stops: 1ce for COFFEE, 2ce to rescue the pesky pen from the seat nether regions (but I time I used the restroom ~ ohhhh that restroom was sooooo nasty!), 1ce to get gas, and then one other simply to stretch my legs.
4 Sets of Cops with cars pulled over. One time there were FOUR cops with 1 car. I pity that fool.
The 70's, 80's and some 90's were the magical combination of music this time around.
Lastly - 472 miles ~ 7 hours and 30 minutes ~ 1 1/4 tank of gas.
Several things were uncountable... trees, trucks, bridges, songs listened to, times I talked to myself, and most certainly, the number of bugs that splatted themselves on my windshield.
Yes, yes, I continue to observe and count weird stuff. :)
Sometimes I think. Sometimes, not(t) so much. These are my thoughts, or not.
Yesterday I drove back to Pittsburgh after a wonderful week spent with my Dad and a few select friends. I wish I could have seen some more friends, but time did not allow. However, the friends I did get to spend time with were fun, fantastic, fabulous and awesome (as was the time spent).
With the TV (and a few other select items my Dad so generously gave to me) in tow, I hoped into my car. Thus I began my drive back home for the 3rd longest solo drive ever. Again, I chose to keep myself amused by keeping a mental log of observations along the journey back. This time, I thought it best to have a pen and paper handy (but more about the pen, later). To mix things up a bit and see different things, I chose to go back a different way. Funny thing is Google Maps and Magellan have intellectual arguments as to the best way to travel. The journey to Albany was Magellan's "idea", and the journey home was the "Google's".
Once upon a time, I used to travel with a bf and he and I used to play the license plate game - keeping track of the States that we saw. We'd jot down each State we saw and try not to be competitive, as if (!), but to this day, I still look at the license plates when I travel. In earnest this trip - I decided to go for a personal best; so, hence the need for the pen because I didn't think I would be able to remember which of the 50 States plus a few Canadian Provinces I would see (or not{t}). The pen did NOT(T) want to cooperate so I had to stop to recover this pesky pen as it chose to hide under the passenger seat until I chose to keep a firm grip on it.
Without further ado, in case you are still reading along, the 29 plates I saw were: NY, Maryland, ND, OK, Maine, NJ, TN, Indiana, IL, PA, MI, MO, Michigan, Ohio, NC, FL, CA, TX, WI, Iowa, MA, CT, UT, SC, Nebraska, WV, RI, Ontario, Quebec ... 27 + 2 = 29... not bad for a days' drive.
Some More Trip Observations:
The highest elevation was 2383 feet - Cresson Summit, somewhere outside Altoona. I obviously didn't notice this on my journey to Albany.
Counted only 14 piles of roadkill: 2 deer, raccoon, and many unrecognizable lumps of ick.
Took 4 pit stops: 1ce for COFFEE, 2ce to rescue the pesky pen from the seat nether regions (but I time I used the restroom ~ ohhhh that restroom was sooooo nasty!), 1ce to get gas, and then one other simply to stretch my legs.
4 Sets of Cops with cars pulled over. One time there were FOUR cops with 1 car. I pity that fool.
The 70's, 80's and some 90's were the magical combination of music this time around.
Lastly - 472 miles ~ 7 hours and 30 minutes ~ 1 1/4 tank of gas.
Several things were uncountable... trees, trucks, bridges, songs listened to, times I talked to myself, and most certainly, the number of bugs that splatted themselves on my windshield.
Yes, yes, I continue to observe and count weird stuff. :)
