D, B And The Car Episode 6: Jason Lives
Monday, 05/13/13
7:00 AM CT
The phone alarm goes off. We weigh the pros and cons of waking up versus sleeping for another hour. Sleeping wins.
8:00 AM CT
Ok, we’re up. Happy Monday:
8:45 AM CT
Dave and I have our last McDonald’s breakfast together. Dave is indifferent. I am sad.
We get on the interstate and head towards Indianapolis.
10:01 AM CT
We almost take the exit for the World’s Largest Wind Chime. Almost.
11:23 AM ET
We cross the border into Indiana. We lose another hour, but we’re happy that the speed limit increases from 65 to 70. We both want to get back to our respective homes.
11:33 AM CT
I mention to Dave that his bumper is buggy, just like the code he writes:
I’m not allowed back in the car until I apologize and tell him his code is great.
12:21 PM ET
We reach Indianapolis. The nice thing about Indianapolis is that we can now see signs for Columbus.
1:00 PM ET
Hey, how about a flashback to Thursday night in Arizona after a few margaritas:
None of my companions are surprised by my antics, but the woman behind me is both aghast and appalled.
1:35 PM ET
Dave and I return to the reasonably fine state of Ohio.
3:00 PM ET
Dave slows the car down enough to kick me out in front of my house before finding a parking space:
3:10 PM ET
Ten days ago, when we began this journey, Dave’s new car only had around 1,300 hundred miles on it:
3:25 PM ET
Dave is on his way back home. The adventure is over. Was it good? Yes. Was it worth doing? Definitely. Would I recommend this or a similar cross-country road trip to others? Absolutely.
Thanks for reading.
– Ben
The pic of the woman is epic. Epic. You should’ve licked her.
I only save my licks for special people, Jackie. You know that.
I think your closing is ambiguous: absolutely yes you would, or no you wouldn’t make the recommendation?
In this case the “absolutely” is implied to be positive. But, for you Nik, I will amend it right here, right now to “absolutely yes.”
My husband and I have often made the 14-hour trip from Illinois to the east coast. I keep saying to him “If I could get in the car, head 14 hours WEST and get somewhere, I’d totally do that.”
Alas – it would be at least 20 to actually get anywhere worth going to.
I did the MI-CA and CA-MA trip twice. Definitely take the north route (texas, ugh!) but it really is a good time if you have time to stop and hang out 😉 Sounds like a good time was had !
I know I’m almost a year late, but I had two comments.
1. Is that the new Charger or the new Challenger? I thought the shot from the back looked like a Challenger, but the other shots look like a Charger. (I have a thing for Challengers. The Chargers are cool, but the Challengers are sexier.)
2. I did Indiana (near Chicago, the only part of Indiana that actually MATTERS) to CA and back 10 years ago, but not in a spiffy new car. Foggy Colorado mountains at 2 am in a stickshift hatchback Ford Aspire is not something that is fun. Neither is Salt Lake City at 7 am after driving all night and being so tired I was seeing letters in the sky. Perhaps stopping to rest would have been a better idea.
It’s a Charger. The Charger and Challenger do have a lot in common in terms of body shape, and I often get them confused when I see one in public.