Rode
Beachwood, Ohio
1. In Ohio for the Cain Park Arts Festival this weekend. I’ve done this show five or six times - it’s a two-and-a-half day event - a fun and quality show. The public is nice, the town is nice, and the show treats us like royalty. I’m excited about being here.
2. I don’t understand car radiators. Sometimes I seem to lose coolant like I was pouring it out the window, other times it doesn’t seem to leak at all. Anyway, the Beige Bullet had a lovely and trouble-free trip. On a relatively cool summer day. Which makes my lack of air conditioning more tolerable.
3. Today’s favorite road-trip iPod song:
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else’s voice
But failure’s always sounded better
Lets fuck it up boys, make some noise…
-Bright Eyes, “Rode To Joy”
4. After not driving today’s route for a couple of years, it’s oddly reassuring to find that, in spite of constant construction over at least the last 26 years that I’ve been driving it, the Pennsylvania Turnpike continues to make that state the laughingstock of the nation. They spend years (and millions) digging and detouring and blasting and paving whichever small section, managing to upgrade it from death-trap to merely inadequate.
5. Pennsylvania Turnpike. Today.
Last time I was on the PA Turnpike heading west to my sister’s, (June 20th), I literally walked down the center of the turnpike. The traffic was that bad b/c of a vehicle fire right before the Alleghany Tunnel. I was 11 miles from the fire stuck between exits that are 20+ miles apart. But I had to walk to find a mile marker to help my sister get info from PennDOT’s website so I could figure out what the hell was going on. I hope it’s the only chance I have to walk on that road. Enjoy the show & have a safe trip back!
Comment by steph — Friday, 11 July, 2008 @ 11:15 am