Some important context: avoid the increasingly hellish traffic up and down I-95, we charted a winding alternate route up through rural Virginia to approach DC from the West. For the MOST part, it worked out really well… minus some sketchy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No, seriously. I legitimately missed the VERY FIRST EXIT once I got onto the highway specifically because I was too busy thinking to myself how I TOTALLY wasn’t going to get lost this time. And then, is a scramble to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
To be fair, it’s isn’t so much that the road in question had NO spots where turning around was an option… just none that a sane person with a healthy fear of getting t-boned by a truck traveling at 60[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay, some context: Ret-Con was in a very different direction than the overwhelming majority of the cons I’ve been driving to and from in recent years, yet it still went through the same intersection just outside of town as the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: First off, no. I wasn’t the one at the wheel on the trip back, THANK GOD. We’ve already established how I think the trip would have ended if I’d tried to drive again that weekend. Second, other people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Look, I get that saying “take the fourth right” and expecting the driver to count for themselves is probably even more of a distraction than expecting the driver to eyeball the distance of a coming turn by feet,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: So, one of the weird things about AWA became the fact that, due to the sheer travel distance involved, it quickly became hard for me to find travel buddies to go with me from North Carolina. Really, though,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
(Historical Notes: Okay, the thing you gotta understand here is that the Metro stop in question didn’t just have “a lot of parking decks.” It had an old parking deck that was blocked off to actual cars but not foot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bonus points if you really, honestly thought you were giving totally accurate information at the time, but then realized you horrifically misspoke ten seconds after the guy was out of earshot. But seriously, after all the pages I’ve done about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
See, what I’m trying to say is the Gaylord stairs are kind of confusing. I mean, I know I’ve gone into this previously (and, actually, I’ve even used the M.C. Escher reference before), but MAN I get lost in those[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…