This week, I'm bringing back something I used to do fairly regularly.I'm going to try and revive my blog.
This seemed like a good week to do it, as it's a very important time for me.
My life dramatically changed fourteen years ago. For the better. I didn't have a smartphone then. Or a blog. Or even a MySpace page.
Even so, many of the details are still very vivid. Since this is WAY after the fact, it's obviously not live-blogging. It's more like live-reflective-blogging. Then again, that's kind of what a lot of blogging is, so maybe it's just blogging.
Today in 2005, I was living in Northern Virginia, looking forward to shedding my old life. Especially since I had a new life waiting for me in California.
Here's where I stayed that last night, fourteen years ago tonight.
This seemed like a good week to do it, as it's a very important time for me.
My life dramatically changed fourteen years ago. For the better. I didn't have a smartphone then. Or a blog. Or even a MySpace page.
Even so, many of the details are still very vivid. Since this is WAY after the fact, it's obviously not live-blogging. It's more like live-reflective-blogging. Then again, that's kind of what a lot of blogging is, so maybe it's just blogging.
Today in 2005, I was living in Northern Virginia, looking forward to shedding my old life. Especially since I had a new life waiting for me in California.
Here's where I stayed that last night, fourteen years ago tonight.
It was nice, but that didn't really matter. I had a deal and they had a vacancy. It was very pretty, and at this time of year there were beautiful autumn colors and falling leaves. I had a nice dinner in the bar, and the room was great.
I was too excited to sleep much, though. And I had to get up at night to go into work. My job was from 2:00am to 10:00am. I was training someone new, though my mind was already on the road. Very far away.
I was exhausted but also really exhilarated. While I wasn't quite hallucinating hephalumps and woozles (tis the season), I was constantly thinking about my stuffed Saturn in the parking garage, and my AAA triptych on the passenger seat.
I was too excited to sleep much, though. And I had to get up at night to go into work. My job was from 2:00am to 10:00am. I was training someone new, though my mind was already on the road. Very far away.
I was exhausted but also really exhilarated. While I wasn't quite hallucinating hephalumps and woozles (tis the season), I was constantly thinking about my stuffed Saturn in the parking garage, and my AAA triptych on the passenger seat.
For some reason, as I think back on this, the J. Geils Band song "Musta Got Lost" is stuck in my head. While I didn't get lost, at any point on this journey, I did feel like I had been lost before this. And had been lost for a very long time.
I had a ten-disc CD changer in my car at the time, but didn't take any J. Geils Band with me. But I did have that player filled, and a box of CDs in the trunk, to keep me entertained.
I'll get into that music tomorrow, on the officially anniversary of the start of this trip. Leg 1 of the trip starts tomorrow!
Ken
I had a ten-disc CD changer in my car at the time, but didn't take any J. Geils Band with me. But I did have that player filled, and a box of CDs in the trunk, to keep me entertained.
I'll get into that music tomorrow, on the officially anniversary of the start of this trip. Leg 1 of the trip starts tomorrow!
Ken
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