a league of just ordinary gentlemen: Live Blog! Pennsylvania roadtrippin'

It's 11am and, after an absurd amount of checking and double checking our equipment, our boss has finally given his blessing for Adam and me to start our 8 hour drive to Breezewood, Pennsylvania. I'm pretty much gonna be living in my boss' car until Friday night. That is, assuming Adam doesn't kill us both with his patented knee-steering; sometimes we drift toward large tanker trucks filled with toxic/corrosive chemicals, and I need to alert Adam to this danger with a timid wimper. That usually gets the job done.

Anyway, to help pass the time on the road, we are keeping a 90s theme - that decade flew by for me. Sure, I wasn't even 10 years old until the Nagano Olympics, but whatever. Time flies when you're eating fruit roll-ups and trading pogs. Hopefully I can post pictures from my phone so the few people reading this can enjoy my pitiful descent into childhood.

2:30 Update

I (Adam) just finished my first driving leg and after splitting a small pizza at "pepe's pizzaria" in some podonk town in CT, I've elected to put my life in Evan's hands to lose my blogging virginity. After reading the previous snide comments about my driving skills it seems appropriate to first note our near death experience from evan turning into on coming traffic just 5 minutes after taking the wheel (ps macarena just came on the radio..great time for a pouch of gushers)...were now about to enter the dirt-hole of America with the hope of seeing Snooky and running her ball like figure off the jersey turnpike. This assumes our base model SUV can withstand the impact. I think If there was a cheaper "no radio" option given to our boss, we'd be sitting in silence - that's how bad this shoebox on wheels sucks. I'm gonna sign off tho. I'm sure Evan will post an update soon for the 3 people who are reading.

6:45 Update

Ok it's Evan again; Adam wants to drive the final 70 miles through the rain in a car with headlights that are maybe as bright a single birthday candles. Sure, Adam, be my guest. I'll take this opportunity to defend my driving skills - I was taking a left and a car came speeding toward us so I cut into a parkinglot in the exit lane. I'm sorry for saving our lives!

Anyway, we found a great radio station that has played Will Smith's "Parents Just Don't Understand" and some Uncle Kracker song. Made it through New Jersey without contracting any diseases, too! Nothing interesting to report in Pennsylvania so far, except that their road signs are really bossy; I've seen "Don't Tailgate" and "Hitchhiking is Against Safety Laws", which only make me want to pick up a stranger and get on the ass of the minivan doing 45mph in front of me.

Hopefully we will have some good pictures to post later tonight from the ride, and maybe a good story from wherever we go get dinner.

9:30 Update

We are at the hotel we booked in Breezewood. I jut want to say right now that I have never seen this many gas stations in such a short stretch of road; there were easily 6 different stations within a quarter mile of each other. In other words, this place sucks. Unless you are looking to prostitute yourself to tractor trailer drivers or murder a drifter and harvest his organs.

To continue my thoughts on Pennsylvania road signs, they are frequent and unnecessary. Here are a few more I saw: Remove Sunglasses; Turn Headlights On; Stay in Lane; Pass With Care; and my favorite, Headlights On? That one is just patronizing. Like your mother asking if you remembered to put on clean socks and underwear before you head off to school. YES mom, I'm not stupid. Like how could anyone forget to turn on their headlights. The thought never occurs, "Wow, it sure is dark out here in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania, I wish there was some way for me to see where I'm driving..."!

Anyway, here are a few pictures from the trip so far. It's tough to get a good picture of anything with my iPhone camera, but tomorrow I should be outside the car a little bit more and will have some better ones.