No pictures this post. It was too dark and the rain too thick to document all the delay and carnage on I-10 across southern Louisiana.
Here's the quote of the trip, though. Michael says, " Look at those A-holes on the onramp stuck in traffic. Wait a minute... they're merging with us. WE'RE the A-holes!"
So blizzards in Colorado turned into biblical rainfall in LA which turned our trip into an endless slomotion rubbernecking extravaganza featuring a car-carrier trailer split in half with all cars aboard roasted- and then a few miles after that another tractor trailer with the trailer exploded into charred wreckage and then a few miles after that on the super steep bridge over Lake Charles two cars wrecked on the bridge. Slow down and get off your cell phones or cb radios or crack addictions, people! Don't you know that Louisiana roads are designed to support the carnage industries?
Thumbs up Abita Springs, home of glorious Abita beer and some fine Acadian cottage architecture.
Thumbs-up for the Mississippi Welcome Center (MUCH nicer than the Alabama and Louisiana Welcome Centers)! It's this really nice brick mansion with this super hospitable hostess who offered us free beverages and gave us unsolicited directions and an update on the progress of rebuilding Jefferson Davis' house (a mere 25 million to rebuild the White House of the confederacy).
We didn't check out the Texas Welcome Center. We pretty much knew where we were going at that point plus I was sleeping.
Merry Christmas to all and I don't want to hear anyone bitching about taking shoes off at the airport. Try 6 hours of thundersquall and rubberneckage next time! People stuck in Denver are allowed to bitch all they want.
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Howdy A-holes! Sorry to hear of your highway tramas. Are you sure you weren't just hallucinating one of Esh's xbox games after eating a bad hotdog at a truckstop?
Anyway, Baby Fern has finally stopped fussing and has settled in nicely with teen-age-separated-at-root-siamese ferns. My boy's constipated, and we miss you! That's all the news from headquarters.
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