The Drive - And We're Off

We were up and at ‘em at 4:00 am this morning on our way . Just in time to be the first customers to roll into the Dunkin Donuts for that fresh pot of coffee. We’re in the car right now and thank god for laptop blogging because I’m beginning to get cabin fever in this cramped SUV. If it wasn’t for Satellite radio and books on CD I’d really be going bonkers. Currently we’re about 60 miles away from destination Lake Placid New York.

I’m looking forward to a dip in Mirror Lake, a nice easy jog lake side just to make me relax and kick this “Ironman Taper Camp” off on the right foot. I’m assuming we’ll be in town right around 3PM. Not too bad considering we made about a hundred bathroom and stretch breaks plus stopped at Applebee’s for lunch…..oh of which the completely botched. I ordered a chicken sandwich and they came out of the kitchen with what looked to be a ½ pound hamburger. Maybe I’d say yes July 21st, but not two weeks and one day before the big day. I politely sent it back and in about another 20 minutes got my chicken. When the bill came for some reason the waitress wrung up our $17.00 bill as a $52.00 charge. Just another slight delay, but we’re now all set and have one more stop….the final one. I started to get very tired hence Jen is driving and I am typing. Jen is now in control of the Sirius Satellite channels. We just got stuck onto the “Hair Nation” channel. Put it this way, unless you still have a mullet and a Whitesnake jean jacket, you should never listen to Hair Nation…..okay, AltNation channel. That’s more like it.

The last 60 miles of the Lake Placid drive have to be one of the most scenic rives in America. I might even rank this area second only to Big Sur. Only problem is there is absolutely zero cell phone service. Maybe that’s not such a big thing since I seem to always be attached to the outside world and technology some way or another.

So what am I going to do tonight you might ask? I’m not exactly sure. I would like to fit in a run just to loosen up the legs, and then tonight I’m looking forward to a nice evening of fine dining lake front and a really cool firework celebration. Happy 4th of July everyone.

posted by Chad Holderbaum @ 2:08 PM Comments: 1