5 Vendémiaire CCXII (September 26, 2003)
Roadrunner, Roadrunner. Going Faster Miles An Hour.
A quick background to this rambling: At about 1 PM I received an email from UNB telling me I had until 4:30 to sign a form allowing me to opt-out of the student health plan. At about 2 I managed to find out that it would be all irght if I grabbed one of the parents' cars and headed out to Fredericton. Besides, there was an apartment I had called about that I wanted to check out.
Now normally it wouldn't take me that long to get to Fredericton. Nice divided highway that you can normally do 125 on without the police bothering you. As it was, I had to go to Sussex and swap cars with my father and then head to Fredericton along part of the Coles Island (speedlimit of 90) road with a lengthy looping detour at the start.
Either way, I arrived in Fredericton at 4:30 and managed to sign the papers just before the office closed. I then spent an hour and a half trying to track down my potential room mate and the person renting the apartment before finally finding out it had just been rented. This was at 6PM, which meant it was now time to head back to Moncton. This is where we hit the point of this:
I didn't want to go back to Moncton.
Mind you, I didn't want to stay in Fredericton either. I didn't mind the fact I had an hour and a half drive ahead of me, I just didn't feel like going back to Moncton or staying in Fredericton.
What I really wanted to do is hop in the car, turn the stereo up loud, and drive as fast as I could to nowhere in particular. Just to head nowhere until the scenery became one blur of trees and the the roar of the engine and rumble of the tires had faded into the background noises I ignored. Instead I headed home, singing loudly (and likely offkey) with whatever song happened to be playing.
Where ever I am is not where I want to be.
On the bright side, going home meant you could post to your blog.
I regret not having gone on more road trips in my time. They're always an adventure. And I suspect that not too long from now, I'll be old enough that they won't be that much fun. I really can't picture my parents on a road trip for the heck of it.
I've never been on a road trip, not one. The lack of vehicle is the limiting factor. However, I wouldn't call what I felt like doing a road trip, I've always seen a road trip as having some general idea of a destination even if it's only "somewhere in province/state x"
As for posting when I got home, I could have posted from fredericton and likely faster.
Speaking of which, I think I'm going to have to take you up on that offer of hosting. I'll take a look at how to manage virtual hosts sometime before the end of the month and let you know.
Posted by g026r at 6 Vendémiaire CCXII 11:30 (2003/09/27)
Just send me an email with your preferred user name (system and MT) and I'll set you up.
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