Goat Day 7: On the Road
4Greetings from the New Jersey Turnpike. I'm traveling, returning from Philly to see my alma mater's basketball team, the Dayton Flyers, lose a tough one. The less said the better.
I'm just going to get right to it.
TODAY'S QUESTION
What was your favorite road trip/vacation as a kid?
Until tomorrow, BLEAT!!!!!!
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Wow, that's a tough one. Maybe the trip where I ended up in the hospital after nearly drowning? Or, when mom got pulled over by the state police? Hmmmm, or maybe the trip my brother's gerbil got loose and ate holes in all the dirty laundry. Needless to say, family vacations were nightmares. Thankfully my parents stopped trying after the gerbil incident.
@bluedog who takes a gerbil on a road trip?
@MsELizardBeth My stupid brother who smuggled it into the family RV without telling our parents.
I don't remember much from childhood trips, as I was usually drugged to keep the motion sickness at bay.
Now, roller derby road trips, during which i am the driver, are another story.
I can't see "New Jersey Turnpike" without thinking of Chuck Berry's song "You Can't Catch Me"
Apparently Chuck still plays a show once a month in St. Louis at Blueberry Hill. I want to get out there to see a founding father of Rock and Roll while he's still playing.
We always went to the beach for two weeks, but the important part is that I built a fort in between the luggage in the cargo area of the station wagon. Yep, I'd be back there with my books and Barbies watching the big rigs zip by.
Carlsbad Caverns.
@BillLehecka just so we're clear, whenever you type these big posts up all we read/hear is this:
The one where my dad stuck my mom, grandma and 3 of us kids in a camper for like 3 weeks and we took route 66 to MO. We stopped in every state and did weird little touristy crap in all of them. Oh - we did this in summer, with no a/c in the truck or camper. My mom was a JOY to be around.
I am very disappointed with today's goat post. You have set a bar sir, and faltered because Dayton it's playing a game. Priorities man! Unacceptable and you must post a doubly awesome post by Tuesday our face my Squiddly wrath (much like squirrelly wrath, but with testicles). What will you do great sir goat
When I read "New Jersey Turnpike" a shudder of loathing went through my body.
I'm from the Philadelphia area so we did go to the NJ shore or the Poconos a few times, but nothing memorable happened. Considering people seem to remember the worst times and not the best, I guess that's good?
Speaking of goats. This weekend in Cincinnati was the 23rd annual Bockfest, whatever in hell that is. A huge wooden goat and a number of live ones. And you should see the contestants for the sausage queen.
http://www.bockfest.com/parade/
Jersey Shore!!!!!
We never went on vacation.. it was always "staycations".. Thanks @BillLehecka...
BEST GOAT DAY EVER. I finally got what I've been wanting, now if we could only change the title to stop scarring people off.
Pier Fishing along the outer banks. We didn't get a hotel or anything, my dad and I lived out of a crappy van and ate pier food for two or three days at time. It wasn't unusual to come back with 200+ Spot/Whiting.
So many people have so many negative vacation stories. I have some too, but he asked for favorites, so here goes.
Pretty much every year we'd go to Glacier Park with my dad--Bowman Lake and Kintla Lake especially. That was awesome. Sometimes we'd get to Yellowstone, which was also cool, but way more touristy.
We didn't go on many vacations with Mom (summer was when we got to spend a chunk of time with Dad and, being a single mother, Mom was usually working two jobs, though I hasten to add that my dad was faithful with the child support too), but a couple of times we went to a Christian resort at Cannon Beach Oregon and one year my sister was on staff there. That year Mom and I showed up too late (and maybe too poor) to get into one of the rooms, so we slept in our car--which, as a kid, was kind of an adventure, and Mom always had a way of making things fun. The staff ended up having a water balloon fight that night and we got caught in the crossfire. Yeah, for a nine or ten-year-old, that was pretty cool. And it was cool when we had a room the next night too. It's like they say in the Lego movie (and @zachdecker says in Clash of Clans): "everything is awesome."
I was always a weird kid and we had our share of troubles, but looking back, I feel like my childhood was blessed and magical. That's all.
Oh, and here's Haystack Rock. I love the Oregon coast and the singular salty-fishy smell when you approach the ocean. But watch out for those undertoads.
Not that Glacier is anything to sneeze at.
I'm an Aquarius, btw, and though we supposedly never believed in that astrology shit, Mom was always reminding me that I'm an Aquarius and she and I loved this song and I don't know if it's self-fulfilling prophecy or what, but the general Aquarius type fits me. But including (and that was my point saying this here) the whole water thing. I love water.
@joelmw Undertoad! That's a great typo!
@dashcloud That's no typo. You might want to read The World According to Garp, one of my all time favorite books.
@dashcloud @barnabee It indeed wasn't a typo. I didn't mean to reference that in particular, but it had to be a thing somewhere.
@joelmw @barnabee Thanks!