Transformations happen so unexpectedly sometimes. It was only yesterday that Patsy was rolling around the front yard not yet anticipating the 4 days of travel ahead of her.
And it was only yesterday that I was the Dave that everybody knew before.
But today I found myself with a new handle (Cobra Man), 3-day stubble (about a 3 am shadow), cheap plastic sunglass things that fit over my RX glasses (yes, like the old people), licking limited edition Dorito dust off my fingers (Smokey Cheddar BBQ), drumming a Zeppelin song on the steering wheel in western Minnesota. I’m not sure how these things work.
Saralyn seems real normal all things considered. She’s been taking full advantage of the 75 MPH speed limit throughout most of North Dakota.
Patsy seems to be exacting some sort of revenge on us today. Just before we left, she weaseled past the baby gate meant to keep her apart from the cat. Once on the other side, she ran directly to the cat’s food, ate the vast majority of it before she was dragged away from the prize. Not content with her regular meal, her bonus cat meal, and her medication peanut butter – she also decided to take down the two bran muffins Saralyn had put in her purse for the trip.
She’s sleepy now.
Because we’re driving in separate cars, I’ve had the luxury of listening to as much bad radio as I want along the way. My favorite moments:
• A radio DJ legitimately excited to announce an Amy Grant song that wasn’t “Baby Baby.”
• The same DJ announcing the Rod Stewart song that I don’t know the name of “Play some of your old Motown records – the kind we listened to blah blah blah blaah blahhh…”
• Listening intently to Paul Harvey to find out what the rest of the story was.
• Listening even more intently to a local Christian call in show where a caller started yelling at the host’s read of a particular Bible passage.
Anyway, that’s day 1. There’s some photos to be posted once we arrive. For now, we’re putting the Q in the Quality Inn – Dickenson North Dakota style. More when we have free wireless again.
3 comments:
Fare forward Motorcoat! You may be buying new snow shovels come winter again - weather's crazy all over.
AMY GRANT!!!
OH my gosh, I love driving through WI and picking up those Christian stories where Jesus lifts the poor and downtrodden. Woo!
Happy travels/settling to the Ewalds.
I want a complete blog post about how great Norbit was, with detailed information about who else was in the theatre. That is unless you watched it in a hotel room. In that case I'm sure Patsy loved it.
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