Driving Across the Country

10 years ago this week, my that doesn't make me feel young, my friend Darby and I sent out from Kansas City, MO, to drive back to Ellensburg by Christmas. This was both the best and worst vacation ever, I hadn't left Ellensburg for about a year prior to this trip, so leaving E-burg made it a great time, but the bitter cold and snow made it rough going. Not to mention the cramped quarters within the Ford Escort we drove. Still it a grand time and I still have some vivid memories, like the news guy in Tulsa, trying to explain the difference between frost and ice and the waitress and the Oklahoma City Denny's that told us ten times, that if we went back out on the road we were going to die. And I remember the bitter cold, wind chills in Texas were in the -40's, making us look like Laplanders. All in all a road trip.

Dan