You may be excited by this title. Well you should be. This morning after after our second evening sleeping iun the car because we were simply to tired and lazy to set up the tent, plus we were camping by the Manuska Glacier and it was friggin cold. I got smart this time since I did not want to sleep with the steering wheel between my legs again and accidentaily honk the horn with my butt of set off the alarm again we took to cooler out of the back. It not being considered a bear proof container we were potentially putting the others campers in danger but we were locked in the car so…yeah. We’re bad people I know. B slept in the backseat, not as luxurious as she was apparently thinking it was going to be. Seeing as the back seats were folded down she got the hard side. At that point I suggested that she take a sleeping bag out and lay on top of that. She staying true to our theme of the day said no I’m too lazy and don’t want to roll it up in the morning. So she collected all the loose clothes laying around and slept on top of those and I got the passanger seat. I think I slept better with the steering wheel. I kept waking up to my ass aching and trying to figure out a position that didn’t hurt. I also really had to pee and you know when you dream that you have to go to the bathroom And that’s your alert that you have to go? Well I jolted up because I started to go to pee in my dream and I for a millisecond thought I peed my pants which would have meant I peed the seat. Not cool. But no worries no pee. Now maybe some of you are like overshare and that’s what B tells me but it happens to everyone. Some people are just embarrassed to admit it. Like the other day me and B went to the bathroom. I had to #2 apperently so did she so we had a bonding moment LOL! I told her I was gonna put it in the blog and she yelled at me. I responded with “everybody poops B they even wrote a book about it”. It was just funny because we have been creepily in synch during this trip it was just inevitable that we have to go #2 at the same time. Anyway Im getting off track. You guys are probably like you two are so lazy, you’re suppose to be camping! You’re right we are but most people go somewhere stay in one place and camp or have a RV or motorhome that they can walk to the bedroom in it after they park. They aren’t putting up a tent, taking down a tent, putting up a tent, taking down a tent…you get the idea. So we woke about 7 after I peed in the bathroom! And since we only had to put the cooler back in the car which was untouched by critters we were off again. Unshowered unbrushed and generally just some sexy ladies. B drove and let me sleep some more and when I finally woke I went to stretch. B was playing “redneck yacht club” and during my stretch I burst out the lyrics. She laugh and said “Is that what it takes to get you energized?” So in suit I say loudly and horribly to the rest of the some as b laughed at me. After that she continued to pick great serenade songs that I could sing crazily loud and weird too. I even started playing drums on the dashboard, B, window, ceiling and my leg with my book. At
that point I was I said “day 12 and the sanity has broke”. We got our good laughs in…I think we both cried a little and we sang our hearts out completely out of tune and ridiculous so the happy little moments in life.
So far I think that has been the highlight of the day. We are on our way to haines Alaska so that we can take the Alaskan Marine Highway ferry to Juneau. On this trip we will have traversed 16 states and 3 Canadian territories, entered and exited Canada 3 times, been in the US 4 times, been in Montana twice and Alaska twice. We thinking maybe we’ll just drive to mexico to cover all our bases. That was just a thought though. Once again crossing the boreder was a sinch. We held off on the cooler sammies (B makes dashboard sammies I make cooler sammies) until after the border as our previous officer suggested. We have seen more moose and tons of rough road. In fact we often feell like bobble heads or like we are mogile skiing in the Vue. Holy dips Yukon fix your roads. The scenery is gorgeous as always but we are getting excited to head towards warmer weather.
Speaking of roads…this is an after sight but my input on the “top of the world highway” Holy shit scary. I was glad I was driving because I’ve got Speedy Gonzales as a co driver and quite frankly sometimes she makes me nervous. I thought Ireland driving was nerve wracking, so not even close. I take narrow winding roads with stone wall shoulders over 16 different types of road full of dips, divets, and potholes with no guard rail on the top of mountains with sheer drop offs on the side any day. I was also not really excited that B gave me the pleasure of this stretch of driving. I think I nearly crapped my pants multiple times while trying to beat the clock to the border. You may be wondering what I mean by 16 different types of road. Well I will elaborate. #1 your everyday average road with shoulders and a center line fairly comfortable driving #2 the still paved road with no center line and lots of roughness #3 the still paved road that is now pink with the same rough quality #4 the still paved road with no line no shoulder and rough #5 the once paved road that they were probably planning on repaving but haven’t got to yet and now sits with loose gravel on it no lines no soulder and rougher than shit #6 the pure gravel road #7 the pure gracel road that says soft shoulder #8 the straight up red dirt road thatwas muddy because it was raining (gobs of red mud were collecting on the sides on my car and sliding down to eventually fall of when we stopped) # the mogile ski hill road like they couldn’t figure out how to level the road so your constantly bopping up and down ( as is happening at the moment) wondering if you are going to catch air (ok so that was only 9 but you get what I mean). Combine those all together with climbing and descending on mountains and curving around them with not side rails and points where you couldn’t see the road in front of you and you tell me if you may have crapped your pants. So yes I did buy the sticker that said “I drove the top of the world highway and survived”. Imagine if we went off the side there is like no traffic up there we would have died and been missing for god only knows how long before someone found our car with our dead bodies 5lbs of twizzlers a keg of pretzels,2 rubber maids full of granola bars, chips, fruit, snacks, smore fixins, instant oatmeal, and a multitude of other things. In the unlikey chance we survived launching ourselves off a mountain at least we would have to decided who would eat who besides we have the mother of all the first aid kits. Just saying. B can fill yupo in on the rest of the day or what I forgot she may also delete the good stuff but I hope she doesn’t J laters Lindsay
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