road trip!
it's been a long time since i've gone on a proper one that didn't involved children and staying with relatives. don't get me wrong--i'm not dissin' the concepts of children and staying with relatives, but there's something about the deltas piling into kent dorfman's brother's lincoln that doesn't quite translate with jingle bells, and "over the river and through the woods".
there's also a beautiful economy enforced by the new car's lack of trunk space that's supremely liberating. One pair of shorts. One pair of jeans. One pair of pants that'll get a person into the top-shelf seafood place on Morris Street. The small cooler. (But don't worry, it easily fits a couple of six-packs even so). No golf clubs, extraneous outfits, or pretension. (Though you know I wouldn't pack golf clubs even if I had my own tour bus). Yup, just roll into the Super 8, pull out the gym bag and toss it on the floor, and hit the hay. (Ok, the place in downtown Halifax is a bit more up the scale than Super 8, but the concept remains the same). meals (other than the afore-referenced five star seafood ecstasy on Saturday night) are planned, if you can use that word, to be taken at roadside lobster shacks up the coast, and wherever they serve a decent (imperial-sized, not US) pint. (henry house for sure). maybe a person might get to the citadel for some sightseeing, and maybe a person will get way-laid somewhere on argyle street on the way up the hill, and have to make do with a picture postcard instead.
mostly it's about not having anything or anybody to push oneself out of bed in the morning, or to put oneself into it the night before. maybe there'll be speeding tickets, (lets hope not), or maybe there won't. what there won't be for sure is anybody telling anyone else which way to go, or what pace to go to get there. i'm sad for anyone not free to take off on such an adventure with me, but you know you'd be welcome just the same.
there's also a beautiful economy enforced by the new car's lack of trunk space that's supremely liberating. One pair of shorts. One pair of jeans. One pair of pants that'll get a person into the top-shelf seafood place on Morris Street. The small cooler. (But don't worry, it easily fits a couple of six-packs even so). No golf clubs, extraneous outfits, or pretension. (Though you know I wouldn't pack golf clubs even if I had my own tour bus). Yup, just roll into the Super 8, pull out the gym bag and toss it on the floor, and hit the hay. (Ok, the place in downtown Halifax is a bit more up the scale than Super 8, but the concept remains the same). meals (other than the afore-referenced five star seafood ecstasy on Saturday night) are planned, if you can use that word, to be taken at roadside lobster shacks up the coast, and wherever they serve a decent (imperial-sized, not US) pint. (henry house for sure). maybe a person might get to the citadel for some sightseeing, and maybe a person will get way-laid somewhere on argyle street on the way up the hill, and have to make do with a picture postcard instead.
mostly it's about not having anything or anybody to push oneself out of bed in the morning, or to put oneself into it the night before. maybe there'll be speeding tickets, (lets hope not), or maybe there won't. what there won't be for sure is anybody telling anyone else which way to go, or what pace to go to get there. i'm sad for anyone not free to take off on such an adventure with me, but you know you'd be welcome just the same.
posted by kad barma at 3:19 PM
2 Comments:
Sounds great and a lot better than my trip to Oklahoma City—not that I didn't enjoy Oklahoma City, what I saw of it, but it was going via airliner and that is now getting worse every year, after it had been getting better and better in the 1950s and 60s and 70s.
God's Speed Kad.
Regards — Cliff
Kad,
Not sure if you're taking requests here, but I know at least one reader and his better half are curious to hear about Halifax and the route there (insert cliche about journeys and destinations here).
Any descriptions or, if you could, pics would be great for those who can't make it up this summer but would love to see it firsthand someday..
best,
gp
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