In Which Radium Girl Concedes Defeat and Makes the Best of It

[radiumgirl]

So, I'm still going to stalk priceline and orbitz and all the other websites, but I've tried Amtrak and Megabus, had a brief flirtation with Greyhound, and even given the scary discount air carriers a shot and it looks like I'm going to drive. 

Megabus would have actually been sweet, but you can't go west from Pittsburgh. Why? Megabus, I think this is a pretty severe flaw in your network. Please to be fixing it? Because once I move to Kzoo, it would be really awesome to know that I can come home for the weekend for about fifteen bucks and totally spend that time vegetating on the internet on one of your sweet sweet double-decker buses. Just sayin'. 

Anyway, as soon as I mentioned to Owen, "I think I'm just going to drive," he says, "Ok. Oh. I should probably tell you that between taking the Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan turnpikes...your tolls are going to be around sixty dollars."

Great. So, sixty dollars on top of the one-hundred-and-sixty for gas (assuming gas isn't $4/gallon by then) and suddenly that air fare looks more reasonable. 

Except I can work around tolls. I mean, I have a sad love affair with the Ohio and Pennsylvania turnpikes (I am quite the rest-stop connoisseur and no, I don't like the new shiny visitor centers, I liked the shitty old truck-stops with the rape!bathrooms because I felt like a badass every time I made a tinkle), and they are easily the most convenient ways to travel, but the tolls are pretty ridiculous. 

So, my new mission, is to plot out a toll-free route and my inner-fangirl wonders if this is what SAM 'N DEAN do. 

I could hear Owen facepalming through the phone. 

Googlemaps and I are BFFs right now. I pay alot of attention to my mile counter, the estimated travel-time, and, of course, the potential for sweet scenery. I decided I want to look at pretty things, so I'm following the coastline of Lake Erie pretty much the whole way across Ohio. 

This is Port Clinton, Ohio. It is on a peninsula in northwestern Ohio and as soon as I saw it's location on the map, I was like, "OHHHH I BET IT'S REALLY PRETTY THERE."

I wonder if Sam ever gives Dean longer-than-necessary directions just to look at cool shit?

*facepalm*

 

Comments

[si-star-x.livejournal.com]

Sam and Dean absolutely do anything to avoid tolls. How else is Sam so awesome at research?

I'm sad that you don't get to be groped by the airport guys, but hey, it does look pretty. You can stop and take pictures of all the pretty and then picspam when you return.

<3

[radiumgirl.livejournal.com]

Sam and Dean absolutely do anything to avoid tolls

Is it sad that this immediately made me think that someone, somewhere, needs to write cracky fic about the insane lengths Sam and Dean will go to avoid tolls? Yes? Maybe? Probably? Heh.

<3

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

DO IT!!!! /not helping

[radiumgirl.livejournal.com]

*looks around helplessly* SHIT.

[si-star-x.livejournal.com]

That sounds awesome to me to, so... maybe we're both sad? Or both awesome. It's up you to decide.

[radiumgirl.livejournal.com]

Hey, lady!

I'm sorry I haven't been chatty today. It's been an epic suck-ass day. EPIC. SUCK. ASS. DAY.

There will be a journal rant. I violently hate my job and if I wasn't moving two states over in a few months, I would be looking for a replacement gig. This place is worse than high school. I hope your day has been better than mine. <3

[si-star-x.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I thought you had been busy, so I didn't try to commentspam you. *Smooshes*

I'll keep an eye out for what made your day suck and I'll grumble about establishments with you.

I'm just about to have a bubble bath with our newly acquired hot water - and my day has been okay really. Look forward to hearing from you later.

<3

[radiumgirl.livejournal.com]

A bubble bath sounds awesome. <3

[si-star-x.livejournal.com]

It was! I put my laptop on the floor and watched the first episode of Hawaii Five 0. It was a fun evening.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

One of my office managers (the only one I like, b/c I got her hooked on Show and ever since I have been bequeathed by her what I like to call 'The Winchester force field of protection', meaning I never get written up or yelled at anymore .... try it, it really works ...) was on a road trip with her hubby when their car broke down and they had to stay the night in a 'Sam and Dean motel'. Lol, the stories were awesome. She has decided that from now on they will ALWAYS stay in Sam and Dean motels. Heh.

[radiumgirl.livejournal.com]

The Winchester Force Field of Protection sounds amazing. I need to get me one of those.

Awww I want to stay in a Sam 'n Dean motel!

Sometimes, when I'm driving, and I see a place that I think looks like a shithole...I ask myself if I think Sam and Dean would stay there. I get giddy when the answer is yes.

[kalliel]

I FULLY approve in the amazing amounts of fannishness abounding in this post! I'm not alooone. <333

And this, too: (I am quite the rest-stop connoisseur and no, I don't like the new shiny visitor centers, I liked the shitty old truck-stops with the rape!bathrooms because I felt like a badass every time I made a tinkle)

God, I missed reading your posts. A+ all around, for all of them.

[radiumgirl.livejournal.com]

Heee, welcome back! Missed yoooooou!

Thinking about this impending drive as a Sam n'Dean inspired adventure makes me less bitter about not getting to be that person on an airplane.