Summer Vacation

This week's host of the Tarheel Tavern is Poetic Acceptance. If you haven't heard me mention it before, that's a very nicely designed layout on that blog. Go on over and just take a glance, it's just plain nice.

Our host, Erin suggested a topic for this week's Tarheel Tavern: "What I Did Over Summer Vacation" Well, okay, you asked:

I was driving through Sloatsburg, NY -- how did I get there? Driving up the NJ turnpike towards NH from NC, there were dozens of notices about the Geo. Washington Bridge being closed, so I got off and drove around. After driving around NJ for an hour, trying to follow roads that weren't on the map, I wandered in New York.

I drove around New York, completely lost, for awhile. After about two hours of being lost, I spotted the entrance to I-87 -- I could get where I wanted via I-87. I even drove under the interstate while attempting to get to it. Then I turned left, attempting to reach the entrance ramp. I never made it.

Some young girl came flying around a turn at quite a high rate of speed and ensured that I didn't make it to the entrance ramp. Damn those airbags are nasty. The Dodge van did it's job -- no real severe injuries, despite a 55mph+ hit on the right front (she was driving a Chrysler Convertible). Some air bag burns and some minor cracked bones and that's it.

Then the fun began. Both vehicles were completely destroyed. The woman's relatives were there within a few minutes, but I was hundreds of miles from anyone I knew, without transportation, on a Friday night. Ugh. The vehicle was towed and I didn't get out of the hospital until about midnight. The wrecking yard wouldn't be open until Monday.

To make a long story short -- I ended up in a hotel, did a lot of walking, almost got arrested for climbing the fence to get in the wrecking yard to get medicine from the van, but eventually I hitched a ride to Newburgh where I finally rented a car and slept in it until Monday when I got back to the van, got my stuff, and continued on to New Hampshire.

So, what exciting adventures did you have?

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