Last weekend, I went to Washington, D.C. to spend time with Dangerboy, who was already there for a national bike meeting. The weekend was great, and everything was fine until it was time to fly home. Dangerboy and couldn’t fly home together because I booked later than him. I ended up with a flight to Kansas City via Newark, New Jersey. That wasn’t the problem. No, having my flight to Newark cancel, being put on train to Newark, getting stuck in the Newark Airport for 12 hours before having my repeatedly delayed flight to Kansas City cancel, and having to stay overnight in New Jersey — those were the problems.
But now I’m home, and for my sanity’s sake, the comedy of errors known as Continental Airlines doesn’t need to be ranted about anymore. The trip before all that was wonderful. We did lots of sightseeing. Look, we saw a guy with an umbrella in his pocket….
…. because his hands were too busy in his pants.
There were lots of other idiots found in our sightseeing, but my cell phone camera (and my brain) can handle only so much stupidity on one trip.
On the latest road trip, a friend and I drove to visit another friend who had recently moved to Des Moines. We three gals did lots of sightseeing, and even to went a hot air balloon festival with fireworks.
We checked out the state capital and saw a few monuments across the street. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a little different. It commemorates Iowans who fought in the Civil War, and there were statues of soldiers all over it, which made sense. But the monument also had this:
She’s Iowa. And apparently Iowa is willing to share her bounty with us.
Another road trip for me this weekend… this time to good ol’ Des Moines. Next time, Greg needs to come with me on a road trip. We had one planned a year or two ago and then it just didn’t happen. He wants to get the crap scared out of him by some ghosts at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. That might have to be an ambush road trip, where I just shove Greg in the car… we’ll see how that works out.
Dangerboy and I are back from our road trip. We drove to Colorado — Denver, Boulder, Estes Park, Fort Collins, and Rocky Mountain National Park. The whole trip was fun and relaxing, especially camping in the park.
Thanks for all the recommendations on music. XO, no way on Oklahoma, or any other musicals : ) We did listen to Cake, Amy Winehouse, Bare Naked Ladies, Foo Fighters, alt country, classical, and whatever decent radio stations we could find.
Eric will probably have pics up in the next couple of days on his site. Until then, I’ll leave you with a pic of a store front in Fort Collins…
* Edit: Pics are up at Eric’s site. Just click on the pic in his post to see more photos.
It’s road trip time for Dangerboy and me… do you have any recommendations for some good music we should take with us?