There is nothing sadder than parting with something you really love. Our Ford Fusion was ugly, but it was the vessel. The mothership! We clocked just over 4,000 miles in it and the check engine light was on the entire time. We removed Dashboard Jesus from the dash…he had been with us thru California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey!
I actually didn’t mind being the driver of the Green Meanie II. It gave me something to do. Driver chooses the music. I preferred it to being the passenger, The passenger sits in the passenger seat with Google Maps, an atlas and three cameras all on their lap. As soon as you are supposed to be finding something on the map you’d get yelled at to take a picture of an entering_____ state! It was funny, but it’s not like you could flip thru a magazine or anything. And although our iPhones have been indispensable, we could have used the 3G and the GPS feature of the new ones….
Steve Jobs is sick. Can you believe this, Kelly has no service, I have 4 bars and we're sitting next to each other.
After dopping Green Meanie II in Newark, NJ, (which is not a family destination btw) a driver picked us up to drive us into the city. That seriously was a highlight. No maps, no driving. I could get used to having a driver. V. civilized. I thought I’d make friends with our driver so he wouldn’t take us to Harlem or get us killed. “How long have you been driving in NY?” I asked him. “6 years. I was a security guard at the World Trade Center and they fired me after 9-11” Yeah, he was from Pakistan. Oh comfort and joy! We weren’t going to die in Harlem, we were being driven by a Pakistan-ee terrorist. Super.
And finally, we arrived at our friend’s apartment. It is in one of the Trump Towers and it overlooks Central Park. Wow. Our 7 suitcases barely fit in the cute old elevator! (have I mentioned that with all of our clothes we have managed to have all of the wrong clothing?) Let’s just say we were well dressed but freezing.
Tomorrow is going to be action packed…where the heck are we going to eat?
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