Verbal Excursions

This year was full of road trips for me… But the most fun I had was on a quick, turnaround trip in early November. Captain Amazing and I flew into Burbank to pick up my new car, and drive it back to Phoenix the same day. What should have been a commando mission turned into a slow mosey, full of adventure detours.

I have a theory, that if you ever want to really get to know someone, you should travel with them. The most carefree friend can turn into a control freak – the most lighthearted turn into a horror story – I have had both of those experiences previously, and this was (thankfully) neither. We jammed some tunes and sang out loud. We randomly stopped in unfamiliar neighborhoods. We met the nicest lady to ever grace a smoothie counter. We spotted a discarded playground slide in a dumpster neighboring the freeway, and then made a twenty-mile scavenger-hunt detour through construction traffic to see if we could fit it in the car (sadly, it was not destined to be). We made out in the back of a parking lot until the streetlights came on. We talked. Alot. We made a six hour trip last over twelve hours – we wasted some serious time… and neither of us cared.

This was our first joint traveling experience, and I honestly couldn’t have asked for a better one. What would have been an uneventful, somewhat boring drive on my own was turned into a surprisingly cool excursion… and I’m now looking forward to many more.