Happy Fourth
So it’s the holiday weekend – sort of. Technically the holiday isn’t until Tuesday, but a lot of people are stretching it into a four day weekend. My employer is open regular hours on Monday (most places I know are), but a lot of us are using a vacation day to supplement the time off. No point in coming into work on Monday, pretending to be interested in working, then having another day off, is there?
The Lovely Mrs. G. and I are actually going on a road trip for the weekend – we’re leaving at 2:00 AM tonight for western Montana. 1160 miles, 19 hours. We’ll mainline it – stopping only for gas, lunch, and the occasional “rest stop”. It’s a long friggin’ drive, that’s for sure, but it was the only way I’d be able to go this weekend.
You see, I have to be back in town Tuesday for work on Wednesday AM. All three of us writers wanted this week off, and a battle went off over who’d actually get the time off. In the end I agreed to be the Nice Guy and shorten my time off, with the condition that they’d “owe me big time”. (Actually, it was okay, since I had to be back for school on Wednesday evening anyway. But they don’t need to know that.)
We’ll mad dog it to Missoula, and I’ll spend Sunday & Monday with Mrs. G’s family (it’s her parent’s 50th anniversary), then Tuesday AM I’ll be on a Northwest Airlines flight home. 19 hours by car = about 6.5 hours by plane, including a 3 hour layover in Minneapolis.
It’s a long way to go for such a short period of time, but I’m glad that I’ll be able to be there. I genuinely like Mrs. G’s family, and there will be a lot of fun to be had. Plus, they live on a river that’s teeming with fish, and I can sit out back with a fishing pole and a smile every morning at sunrise. What’s better than that?
So to everyone out there who’ll be hitting the road this weekend, please buckle up and try not to have a spaz when you see the gas prices.
We’ll be at Wall Drug at 7:00 AM if anyone wants to meet us for free ice water and a dance with the robotic T-Rex. You’ll have no trouble spotting me – I’ll be the sleepy guy who is jonesing for one of their donuts.
See you on the road.
The Lovely Mrs. G. and I are actually going on a road trip for the weekend – we’re leaving at 2:00 AM tonight for western Montana. 1160 miles, 19 hours. We’ll mainline it – stopping only for gas, lunch, and the occasional “rest stop”. It’s a long friggin’ drive, that’s for sure, but it was the only way I’d be able to go this weekend.
You see, I have to be back in town Tuesday for work on Wednesday AM. All three of us writers wanted this week off, and a battle went off over who’d actually get the time off. In the end I agreed to be the Nice Guy and shorten my time off, with the condition that they’d “owe me big time”. (Actually, it was okay, since I had to be back for school on Wednesday evening anyway. But they don’t need to know that.)
We’ll mad dog it to Missoula, and I’ll spend Sunday & Monday with Mrs. G’s family (it’s her parent’s 50th anniversary), then Tuesday AM I’ll be on a Northwest Airlines flight home. 19 hours by car = about 6.5 hours by plane, including a 3 hour layover in Minneapolis.
It’s a long way to go for such a short period of time, but I’m glad that I’ll be able to be there. I genuinely like Mrs. G’s family, and there will be a lot of fun to be had. Plus, they live on a river that’s teeming with fish, and I can sit out back with a fishing pole and a smile every morning at sunrise. What’s better than that?
So to everyone out there who’ll be hitting the road this weekend, please buckle up and try not to have a spaz when you see the gas prices.
We’ll be at Wall Drug at 7:00 AM if anyone wants to meet us for free ice water and a dance with the robotic T-Rex. You’ll have no trouble spotting me – I’ll be the sleepy guy who is jonesing for one of their donuts.
See you on the road.
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