Random thoughts of a Chaotic and Patterned World, From The Gemini Who Is Mercury Who Is Hermes Which Is Gemini Who Is Mercury, Which Is Hermes The Alchemist.
An intense day of driving from Denver to Salt Lake City. It should have been a 7 hour 38 minute drive according to mapquest. I guess they didn't figure the 100 mile per hour truck-tipping winds, the white out snow, or the sheets of ice between Cheyenne and Rawlins, Wyoming.
Day Two finished. A harrowing day of intense rain, gusts to 60 miles-an-hour, trucks passing at 80 miles an hour creating water whiteout. When I got to Joliet, I stopped. Short of my goal by two hours and 140 miles, I knew when to call it a day. I had been very lucky. If this had been normal temperatures, this would have been a record blizzard. Keep driving those SUVs--makes my trip so much easier!
It's amazing how fast trucks drive in this weather.
Ate at Steak and Shake for dinner. I understood the median weight of 300 pounds of the clientele.
In a Budget Inn next door to a Motel 6. Pet friendly, free wireless, continental breakfast. 36 bucks.
Take a gander at one of the lighter deluges today.
"Careful reflection of the barnacles and lead in one's life, when buffed through sorrow, joy and experience, reveal the nacre and gold that was always there. This is life as Alchemy."
your typical/atypical, HIV positive-, Weimaraner owning-, Gemini
Scorpio rising-, cynical optimist-, world traveling-, funny/serious-,
extroverted introvert. I embrace life fully and powerfully, live
responsibly in the present, have left jobs of importance for calls to
the road. I've raised almost 100,000 dollars for AIDS and wildlife
causes, ridden bikes in Montana, California, Alaska, Laos, Burma,
climbed Kilimanjaro, sat with mountain gorillas, seen a tiger on
foot, a leopard, been charged by rhinos in Nepal, I've laughed in
Burma, had malaria in India, dived with whale sharks in Thailand,
met the Dalai Lama, Stevie Nicks, Elizabeth Montgomery, Bill
Clinton, Yul Brenner, Carol Channing,
Michu-the world's smallest man, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins,
Beck. What have I learned? I know nothing and everything.
Family and personal growth are my greatest joys.
At times my dog can smell like an old shoe.
