John Breen
One day, I was driving home from CA to MA, with a big boat on a trailer behind a pickup truck...
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Dec 4 at 6:12pmWeb
Show threadJohn BreenDec 4
On the final leg of the trip, I was playing this song in my mind, from memory. Not listening. This was 2003-ish, cell phone connected cars were not a thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwkej79U3ek
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Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles

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Show threadJohn BreenDec 4
Anyway, CA to MA is about 3000mi, normally a 5-day journey if you can drive 600mi/day, 60mph for 10 hours.
But I had decided I wanted to make it in 4 days. On the 3rd day.
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Show threadJohn BreenDec 4
So there I am, on a highway with a rig, getting tired, just past Pittsburgh, PA.
I'm about to drive my rig off the road into a 100ft drop into a ravine, so I decide to pull off and find a Motel-6 parking lot...
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Show threadJohn BreenDec 4
There, I go back into the boat on trailer, which is a strange form of mobile RV home, and smoke a joint and go to sleep for a few hours.
Waking up, the journey terminated safely.
But that was a long strange trip.
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