winter trip 08
real quick run through:
left crying grandma and waving grandpa
drove straight to atlanta, called misha and we met up with her friend at a diner. ate the thickest chili (pure ground beef basically), they burned me some cds for the road, and i left
slept an hour north of atl in a parking lot, then straight to chicago.
got elliot, to racine, got sean, then to osh kosh. stayed with leah from couch surfing in osh kosh, met her at a bar she works at, sledding in the morning.
then to green bay, won seven bucks at oneida casino (biggest cas. in wisc.), elliot won like $40.
beautiful drive up the upper peninsula of michigan, stopped on lake mich and stomped around in the snow and frozen slushy lakeshore. went out on not-so-thick ice to these old rock huts, then straight to clairvioux (sp?) lower peninsula. stayed with cs'er jeff and his wife, went out on the frozen lake behind their house and talked to them all night.
woke up, he cooked a keesh, we ate it, then said our goodbyes. went snowmobiling all day, had snowball fights and shit it was fun and the trails were amazing. from white-out on snowy fields to up and down mountain-sides with rivers and frozen bogs to our left and right. got my sled up to 60 which is crazy in a snowmobile. we got lost, got stuck, cruised down the sides of roads and up, went through water, and got mad air off these jumps.
then pizza, straight to detroit through a blizzard and squabs. gambled while elliot's friend was busy, elliot won another $100 or so. slept like 13 hours or some shit in detroit then booked, sean and elliot stayed up for some convos, smoking, and beer.
then took like an hour to get through the border, the canadians hassled us like crazy. sniffing dogs and taking our car apart and heckling me for wearing shorts. "don't you know it snows up here?" "no what is snow"
finally they told us to go inside and get strip-searched (not really) or some shit and their boss was like "haven't they been through enough!" and the border guard saw me listening in on their little convo and had this smug as grin on her face cause we both knew she was fuckin with us. anyway left, straight to toronto, met up with a cs'er named pien. she answered the door in an apron and heat mitten and a big smile and it looked warm in there. we ate, she told us about india and language-teaching abroad programs and we left the next morning. she was by-the-books man i'm telling you.
trekked around toronto but it was too damn cold, had snowball fights in the streets and everybody looked worried like we were going to hit them by accident. big snowballs, small boulder-like balls, etc, finally left.
more shit coming back into the u.s., the border guards were like "hey do you guys smoke weed? you can tell us we're cool" haha. new years in some bar in kalamazoo, michigan. i got shit-faced sean bought me a shot of tequila and i had two other drinks. counted down the new year then i walked around the 'city' alone feeling warm. we left, straight to sean's house in racine. i went on to madison for bike polo. played pick-up all day, got my dick smashed (really.), fingers all shot to hell, arm muscles torn and random other stuff and decided to hell with the tournament i wanted to do something else the next day. we had to scrub the scuff marks off the gym floor also. stayed with my old roommate victor that night, got dinner with his co-workers, caught up with teaching and fam news.
left the next morning, got elliot, drove straight to cleveland to some rave but the show wasnt going on so he got a drink, we ate mongolian food, and i drove straight to dc. i tried to stay up with espresso beans and max strength 5 hour energy but it did not work. waking up this morning my body feels electrified (not necessarily in a good way) and i am going to unpack the car and go to the supermarket. it's 45 degrees here and i'm ok with that.
left crying grandma and waving grandpa
drove straight to atlanta, called misha and we met up with her friend at a diner. ate the thickest chili (pure ground beef basically), they burned me some cds for the road, and i left
slept an hour north of atl in a parking lot, then straight to chicago.
got elliot, to racine, got sean, then to osh kosh. stayed with leah from couch surfing in osh kosh, met her at a bar she works at, sledding in the morning.
then to green bay, won seven bucks at oneida casino (biggest cas. in wisc.), elliot won like $40.
beautiful drive up the upper peninsula of michigan, stopped on lake mich and stomped around in the snow and frozen slushy lakeshore. went out on not-so-thick ice to these old rock huts, then straight to clairvioux (sp?) lower peninsula. stayed with cs'er jeff and his wife, went out on the frozen lake behind their house and talked to them all night.
woke up, he cooked a keesh, we ate it, then said our goodbyes. went snowmobiling all day, had snowball fights and shit it was fun and the trails were amazing. from white-out on snowy fields to up and down mountain-sides with rivers and frozen bogs to our left and right. got my sled up to 60 which is crazy in a snowmobile. we got lost, got stuck, cruised down the sides of roads and up, went through water, and got mad air off these jumps.
then pizza, straight to detroit through a blizzard and squabs. gambled while elliot's friend was busy, elliot won another $100 or so. slept like 13 hours or some shit in detroit then booked, sean and elliot stayed up for some convos, smoking, and beer.
then took like an hour to get through the border, the canadians hassled us like crazy. sniffing dogs and taking our car apart and heckling me for wearing shorts. "don't you know it snows up here?" "no what is snow"
finally they told us to go inside and get strip-searched (not really) or some shit and their boss was like "haven't they been through enough!" and the border guard saw me listening in on their little convo and had this smug as grin on her face cause we both knew she was fuckin with us. anyway left, straight to toronto, met up with a cs'er named pien. she answered the door in an apron and heat mitten and a big smile and it looked warm in there. we ate, she told us about india and language-teaching abroad programs and we left the next morning. she was by-the-books man i'm telling you.
trekked around toronto but it was too damn cold, had snowball fights in the streets and everybody looked worried like we were going to hit them by accident. big snowballs, small boulder-like balls, etc, finally left.
more shit coming back into the u.s., the border guards were like "hey do you guys smoke weed? you can tell us we're cool" haha. new years in some bar in kalamazoo, michigan. i got shit-faced sean bought me a shot of tequila and i had two other drinks. counted down the new year then i walked around the 'city' alone feeling warm. we left, straight to sean's house in racine. i went on to madison for bike polo. played pick-up all day, got my dick smashed (really.), fingers all shot to hell, arm muscles torn and random other stuff and decided to hell with the tournament i wanted to do something else the next day. we had to scrub the scuff marks off the gym floor also. stayed with my old roommate victor that night, got dinner with his co-workers, caught up with teaching and fam news.
left the next morning, got elliot, drove straight to cleveland to some rave but the show wasnt going on so he got a drink, we ate mongolian food, and i drove straight to dc. i tried to stay up with espresso beans and max strength 5 hour energy but it did not work. waking up this morning my body feels electrified (not necessarily in a good way) and i am going to unpack the car and go to the supermarket. it's 45 degrees here and i'm ok with that.