Roadtripping with Rumple: Blog/Tweet-style

@SportsJournalists.com: Phew! Made it through Houston. Saw a Kia dealership and thought about leaving the Spectra and walking the rest of the way, but I learned how to drive this car. I just need to keep it above 90 at all times *crosses self*.

Just passed a souped-up DeVille. Were the passangers waving "hello" or flashing gang signs? I think I better keep moving.

 

Give us a count of the armadillos on the side of the road. If you hit one, who would win?

 

How many 18-wheelers have nearly knocked you off the road/nearly caused a wreck?

Fuckabuncha trucks.

 

@zebracoy: Haven't seen any armadillos yet, but plenty of blown tire tread from 18-wheelers.

@Trey: One, but he must have been distracted by his companion following "The Book."

 

The longer the drive, the louder and metaler the music. Energizes and amps me more. Zep, AC/DC, Leppard, Sex Pistols and the like. 'Course with a family of four, there must be compromise--there's some top 40 radio for the mrs. and the youngest, and some rap for the 16 year old mixed in.

I also have a tendency to pull out some of my lesser played CDs for extended trips. Just last week, enjoyed BoDeans and GooGoo Doll CDs I hadn't played in a while.

 

What's on for dinner plans? I'm hoping for a gory update from an ultra-greasy truck stop.

 

Sorry, but this might be one of the more idiotic threads ever started here. A study was just released saying that texting while driving makes it 23 times more dangerous. So why not add in reading a thread to make it even tougher! At your next pit stop why don't you just down a six-pack while you're at it.

 

@C_K: I actually just pulled off in Winnie, Tx., looking for a good place to eat. Wanted some local flavor with it. Asked at a State Farm office that's located inside a log cabin (I don't even know about that one). They told me to go to this one Cajun place, near a truck stop.

Well, I ambled in and turned immediately around once I saw the health score (D).

 

@dreunc: Don't tempt me! I'll save my imbibing until I get to the casino in the hotel.

Onward!

 

@SportsJournalists.com: Just sat down to eat in Beaumont. This brings us to the third question.

When you travel, do you prefer to go to local resturaunts or the chains you know are good/mediocre/edible?

 

What did you order? Also, expecting a Zagat-like breakdown of the establishment you're dining in.

 

@C_K: Zagat-like? Well, I'll try my best to bring you inside "Jason's Deli" in Beaumont.

Walked through the doors and approached the counter to order a sandwich. I was helped by a Mary J. Blige/Lil Kim/Gollum hybrid with the cutest little studder. She asked me what I w-w-wanted, but I couldn't decide, so she tossed a menu my way. She had to go take her 3 pm "weed break," so a guy who looked like Denzel Washington and Sam Cassell's kid took over.

I had narrowed it between the Turkey Wrap or the Pastrami Melt and asked the worker what would be best.

He told me to get the Pastrani melt because it would fill me up, but to just make sure I was near my destination "in an hour or so because it will rush out of me."

How could I doubt his honesty, so I picked the melt.

It took a while to get to me since the workers were yelling at Mary J. Gollum to "finish her blunt" and get her "ass back to the register."

Eventually I had it and it was greasily fantabulous.

I was one of two patrons in the joint and the other guy was passed out in the corner, so I finished my meal and left the establishment.

Now, I'm sitting in traffic counting down the minutes until detonation.