Saturday, March 03, 2007

Our Road Trip


You'll probably think that this weekend was somewhat stupid, but we woke up at 4:30am Friday morning, and Kara picked us up at 5am to take us to the airport. We had a 6:40am flight to Houston which connected in Atlanta since we were flying AirTran, and finally arrived at 11:30am which was 45 minutes later than scheduled.

Craig bought a Lexus thanks to the help of eBay. The Lexus was in Houston, obviously. And, even more obvious, we were going to drive it back. He has a car friend in Houston who did all the preliminary investigating and gave the car a thumbs up so that was sufficient. There was quite a bit of in between travel and little errands, and by the time we were on the road to depart Houston it was already 3:30pm. The (lofty) goal was to make it back to Atlanta, and in Craig's mind, we were going to be done with everything and on the road by 1pm according to his original plan. Errands and catching up with his friend made for a long afternoon, and by the time we had hit the road, it was already 8 hours since our day had started.

We drove due north for hours until hitting 20 which would take us straight to Atlanta. Unfortunately, it's a 12 hour drive according to Google maps taking the most direct route, and of course, not accounting for bad weather, accidents, congestion, construction and anything else that could possibly go wrong. (Yeah, yeah..the car could've broken down too, and then we'd really be up shit's creek, but let's not think about that.)

The car was in near mint condition, and owned by a middle aged couple with no kids. The car was pampered and maintained exclusively by Lexus. It was as good as it could get, especially for a car that's already 5 years old.

We drove, knowing full well that Atlanta was too far so we picked a reasonable midpoint and aimed for that. As it got later, the city seemed farther away. The night was pitch black, and we were the only car on the road. After a while, you get tunnel vision and it's hard to concentrate. We arrived at the Holiday Inn Express that Kara looked up for us around 12:15am. We were dead tired. So tired that I bitched just a tiny bit when I realized that we got a smoking room, then passed out.

This morning, we got up really early and Craig finished the drive back to Atlanta. We're here, finally, and hung out with his sister and parents at the park, and got dinner shortly thereafter. It's already 10:30pm, and I'm going to bed soon. Tomorrow, we roll out of bed and drive back home.

People are going to regret asking me what I did and where I was this weekend (Texas then Louisiana then Mississippi, then Georgia, then South Carolina, North Carolina...the..*gasp*...VIRGINIA!!!) Think I'll just say, "Not much!"

Oh, and it's 1400 miles in case you were wondering.

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