Friday, April 15, 2016

Blown out

I had already planned on leaving Joshua Tree this morning, but when nasty winds kept the Rolling Steel Tent swaying and shaking all night, I took it as Nature's validation of my plan. So I'm catching some breakfast and free wifi at McDonald's in Twentynine Palms before hitting the road to the coast.

I had considered taking the extra slow route through the San Bernardino Mountains, up to Big Bear and Lake Arrowhead, then connecting to the Angeles Crest Highway. It would be a narrow, twisty drive down Memory Lane for me. I used to go up there when I lived in Los Angeles and Orange County. I was a twenty-something dude with a third-hand Porsche 911. I wasn't a great driver, but I looked cool. That was the important thing. Now, wrestling a van along those roads would have zero cool factor, and drivers of sports cars and motorcycles would be cursing my slow ass.

6 comments:

  1. You might look cool driving a Porsche but you can't park it and live in the back.

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  2. True, Porsche is wayyyy too small for camping, I'm still trying to figure out how some people can live in a Prius !!!

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    1. If I still had a Porsche, there are women who would want to take me home with them.

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    2. You write that as if it is a good thing! LOL Yet men seem to condemn all the "gold diggers." Hmmm.

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    3. It's cool as long as it's an equal exchange. As a friend once said (more or less), "I married him for his car, he married me for my boobs."

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  3. I think you would be safer staying in the van !!!

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