(Thursday, 23JUL09)

Day ONE of the Road Trip to Orlando, FL

What’s that??
3am wakeup call??
Ugh.
I can’t take such a thing.
But I do.
I roll into the mini-van…
I try my damnedest to fall back to sleep…
But I don’t.
Meh.

Drive through
Windsor
The birthplace of VT
Which didn’t really make any sense to me….
It’s in the middle of the state
On the Conn river…
But not a metropolis.
Not even close to it.
And not near a metropolis either.
Vermont
Spooning NH since 1753.
(I made up the date.)

Down through MA and CT
Chuckle at the airport name in New Haven
(home to Yale)
It’s named Tweed.
I thought it was funny, anyway.

Reminisce at the IKEA in Hartford.
Used to stop there with an ex on road trips to nyc from boston.

Get butterflies in my stomach crossing the hudson river….
Manhattan’s skyline barely visible…
And yet, I still felt a little piece of me there.

Into jersey, maryland and delaware.
Told alex about silly stories of aliens in delaware
From a previous roadtrip long, long ago.

At a rest area…
Somewhere….
In one of those states…
Some chick comes into the bathroom and exclaims,
“I know where you’re going!”
And I, totally confused, manage,
“really?? Um… florida??”
And she skulks away into the stall,
“oh, uh…. no.”
Me – “oh ok. Um… is there something going on??”
She, cheery again,
“yes! A concert, festival!”
Me – “sweet”
Then I notice
During the rest of our time at this particular rest area
That there is a bunch of hippy/stoner types there.
Not sure that I love that I was assumedly lumped with them.
Meh.
(I say that as I sit here typing this in my pjs….
A pair of camouflage sweatpants and a tie-dyed t-shirt.
Who am I kidding??
I am a bit of a hippie.)

We end up just north of the north carolina border for the night.
I wonder as I watch the news broadcasting
Thunder storms over the area we’ve just come through….
Did their hippie/stoner concert get rained on??