Monday, November 13, 2006

Travel Tips

1. NEVER order "fresh" food at a gas station restaurant. They must have a rule that all salads are to be prepared and set under a heat lamp by 6:00 am. Eight pm is not veggie time.

2. On the morning before a 13 hour car drive, do not consume garlic sausage for breakfast. No matter who went out of their way to prepare it for you. No matter how rude it would be to refuse. There is NO time, and no place for garlic sausage if you want to enjoy meaningful relationships in your life.

3. Dried fruit. See #2.

4. Music and laughter are paramout to your mental health. After five or six hours of seeing the same hydro pole pass by on your left, you begin to question your sanity. You begin to have the distinct feeling that this is a conspiracy by hamster-dom to teach you a 'lil lesson on monotony.

5. You can find a great many inspiring magazines and varieties of breath mints in gas stations.

6. When you find yourselves discussing highway quality, observing road signs that have been recently erected with great excitement, it may be entirely too late to question your sanity. Simply double your medication.

7. For a lively discussion, theorize that what drove Thelma and Louise off that precipice may actually have been hour upon hour of prairie travel.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Welcome home.

I missed you.

And, happy belated birthday.

(still avoiding exclamation points, still sounding...mad.)

Judy - www.judyh58.blogspot.com

joyce said...

Judy- you are just precious!!!!!!!!!

Heather Plett said...

Those miles just flew by in an airplane. :-) But we'll be driving them at Christmas time, so I can't gloat too long.

lettuce said...

heehee this made me chuckle.

8pm is not veggie time.

(never is according to my husband)

Did we all miss your birthday? shame on you. And happy birthday, I hope it was good.

lettuce said...

oh, and looking forward to pics of more bags, to choose another one. I'll have to be quicker off the mark next time.

(tee hee again - word verification is fufnofoe)

Anonymous said...

oh dear god. I've never driven through the praries, but michigan into southern ontario was pretty bad.

I second the garlic sausage rule.

Anonymous said...

Welcome home friend! And belated happy birthday!!