April 24, 2007
Driving madness
So our band went to Kelowna, BC on the weekend for a benefit for the SPCA there. Yeah that's right... a friggin 10 hour drive (one way if you're speeding) through the rocky mountains and 2 or more national parks. Were we insane? Partially. Did we enjoy it? Even less than partially Will we do it again? Highly unlikely unless there is flying involved.
We left at 4 am Saturday morning and a good hour into the drive in the darkness of early morning we hit some nice blowing snow, and slush, and icy roads for about 45 minutes. I think I counted 4 cars in the ditch, one of them was a Jeep missing its front axle. In Calgary we waited in Dennys on our beloved leader and his slow bunch ... ate a friggin $10 breakfast (huge but wtf, $10?) and an hour after we had stopped we were back on the road into the mountains.
Highly uneventful... boring in fact other than the great scenery. The craziest thing was our guitar players driving... 130-140 on windy mountain highways... that's crazy. Oh and the van that we rented was the Chevrolet Uplander ... don't get it... it was uncomfortable and some really stupid design mistakes i.e. no armrests on the centre seats.. no 'oh shit' handles... and we couldn't find a way to fade the stereo from the back to the front. 18 hours of latin/pop music can really get to a person when the little crappy speaker is right by your ear, especially when you're trying to catch some Zzzzz's because you woke up at 3 am.
I really love the mountains though, I just do. There is almost nothing more impressive than driving through Jasper with a rock face on your right and a herd of bighorn sheep on the left grazing. We even saw a black bear (a pretty big one) on the way into the park. Wicked. I wanted to ditch the whole 'going back home' thing and stay in Jasper for the week. Screw work, screw everything, it's the friggin mountains! Yeah that didn't go over too well.
21 hours of driving in a 42 hour timespan is not a fun thing to do though, I wouldn't suggest it. Luckily we all get along pretty good none of us hate each other too badly, 'cause I can imagine some flaring tempers and flying fists.
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