I have decided that I will not post the pictures of the trip in part 2 and 3 of the road trip stories. Rather I will post the pictures at the end in their own entry. So without further adieu here is part 2 of the story of Missy and I's road trip.
Okay when I left off we were on our way out the door. We were running about an hour late but as I explained in the previous post we were actually an hour early if that makes sense. The first thing we needed to do was to get some snacks and other minor supplies for our trip. After what amounted to way too much debate for such a silly topic we decided to head to Meijers.
A little off subject but Missy and I have the hardest time deciding anything. Our previous relationships were with people who were extremely picky and very demanding. They always wanted to be in charge of every decision whether it was what was for dinner, a movie to watch, or what to do on a Friday night. It was honestly so bad for Missy that she could not even watch MTV. Now grant I think MTV is a cultural cesspool and has done more than most things to bring about a moral decline in this country. All the same I could never imagine dictating whether another grown adult was allowed to watch the channel or not. I might seriously make fun of you if you are glued to the television for the latest episode of Teen Mom, but that is your right to watch it (just as it is my right to make fun of you for it).
In the interest of full disclosure I do watch Jersey Shore. I know it is horrible show and I am an awful person. It pretty much represents everything that is wrong with this country and the last thing I would ever do is promote some drunk like Snookie. All the same I do watch the show each week. I am not even sure how I started watching the show since I hate reality shows and have never watched them before but somehow I caught an episode and like a really bad movie I kind of feel compelled to stick with it just to see it through to the end. Maybe I am like the Captain of a ship who goes down with it in a finally blaze of glory. On second thought since when has a ship captain even done that? Lately those guys are the first ones to bail on a sinking ship.
Wow, my off topic comment got off topic. If I keep going I might end up in an infinite time loop. Okay I will draw back to my original off topic topic which is how Missy and I can never make decisions. Because we were used to people always deciding for us we kind of go out of our ways to not be pushy towards one another. One result of our easy going nature is that we rarely ever even have a cross word for one another, let alone a fight. The very few that we have had usually involved outside influences and alcohol on top of that. The downside is that even just deciding where we want to go to get a meal can take hours. Half the time we give up in frustration of being unable to decide and just eat a bologna sandwich. Well generally I have some yummy left overs Missy cooked the night before but she will have the bologna sandwich because I think sometimes people don't always like to eat the food they cook. Either that or she is secretly poisoning me, but even if she is she is so cute and sweet I won't stop her.
So we end up going to Meijers. I nearly get in an accident in the parking lot because of a combination of my poor driving and some woman on a cell phone driving down the center of the parking lot isle. I had to cut my steering wheel hard and drove up on the curb. Nothing new for me but it brought a round of cuss words that I was later disappointed in myself for uttering. Missy has told me she does not like driving with me because I am always losing my temper at people so I am really working hard at being more pleasant to ride with.
At the supermarket we picked up some snacks and a couple of bottles of champagne. We haven't drank for almost half a year and we decided since we were on a mini-vacation we would have some drinks.Cooks champagne was on sale so we grabbed two bottles. Honestly I am not upper class snob but I have had champagnes ranging from five bucks all the way up to fifty dollar bottles. To be honest cooks extra dry has tasted the best to me. Korbel is not bad as well, but many of the ones I have tried in the 20-30 dollar range I found downright awful and don't get me started on Andre's or J. Roget (5 dollars generally). Cooks used to run about 6 or 7 dollars a bottle but a lot of times they want 12 or more for it now. On this day they had it for 8 dollars which I still think is a fair price. I think we rounded things off with a candy, a 3 musketeer for Missy and a Snickers for myself.
Next we headed for the freeway. Where we were going was virtually all freeway travel. Less than 10 minutes on either end of the journey once of the freeway. That makes things very nice unless the weather is crappy. Before jumping on the freeway we swung through a McDonald's drive through and grabbed a couple of cheeseburgers. We have been on a McDonald's kick lately if we eat out (can't beat that as it is cheap). I used to not think much of them but lately their hamburgers seem to be not very greasy and I am in love with those tiny dehydrated onions.
I mentioned earlier that driving on the freeway is quite nice compared to trying to navigate down a bunch of city streets except for if the weather is bad. Well on that day the weather was pretty crappy. It had snowed the night before and while the road was too warm for it to stick it did mean that the trip was a slushy hazy mess. The freeway was also chock full of a bunch of big rigs flying about. Man nothing really upsets me more than people driving 40 ton death machines like they are in a nascar race. I think there was about a dozen instances of some truck driver trying to pass someone and creep into my lane and almost flatten me. I have no idea what the big hurry was but I told Missy that they were probably just trying to get a closer look at her. I know I would if I saw her in the passenger seat of a car passing by. She thought I was crazy for saying this but I think deep down she knew I was right!
Oh yeah when I was telling her about my theory behind all the truckers driving like maniacs I was looking at her. This had the side effect of meaning that I was not looking at the road. When I finally did look back to the road I noticed I had veered off the right side of the road by about 5 feet and was about to drive off the shoulder and into a 20 foot drop. Luckily for Missy and I I eased back onto the road and saved us from a really short trip. I don't think it would of killed us by any means but it certainly would of scared the piss out of me and probably tore our poor mustang in two.
Even through the slush and light snow flurries we did see some very beautiful sights. There were plenty of rock slides and I always love seeing those. It is almost like you are seeing a small mountain cut in half. I wished I had brought a bucket with me, I would of stopped and collected some of the falling scree. Not sure what I would of done with it but I am sure I could of made use of it with my modeling (like the hobby, not the run way kind).
The drive was only about two hours or so. I didn't really keep track of time but with stopping at Meijer, McDonalds, and one rest stop to use the bathroom I think all told we made the trip in three hours. We arrived at the island of our destination just at 3 o'clock which was the time of our hotel check-in. We did have a bit of a row by the off ramp because there was signs telling us which exits to take for our hotel but Missy had written down different directions. I decided to follow Missy's directions which took us in a bit of a circle. In her defense her directions were fine but I missed a turn because she was a bit slow telling me which way to turn. When I told her she is not good at reading off directions she looked at me and bared her teeth. Seriously almost like a tigeress ready to attack she bared her teeth. It was both the weirdest and cutest thing I had ever seen. If I wasn't so worried about losing some teeth I would of tried to snap a picture of it.
It is a shame I didn't take a picture too because despite me constantly asking her to, she complains she is unable to make that face again. I could try and piss her off again but I really don't want to take that chance. Once you have seen teeth bared you tend to avoid eliciting that reaction again.
Part 3 Will come tomorrow. It will detail our time there. Part 4 our trip back and pictures.
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