A 3 Hour (de)Tour

Saturday, January 14th, 2006 | Uncategorized

Now I am not saying that Gilligan’s Island was not an absolute classic, however I do not want to live out my own reality based version of it unless I really get my own island with my own MaryAnne.

Insert your thoughts here: (What the hell is he talking about?)

Backstory = In left Louisiana today and headed towards Houston. Time was actually going really fast, until traffic just stopped. I still have no idea what actually happened to cause it, but whatever it was it was BIG (or at least for Louisiana cops to handle). It stopped interstate traffic in both directions in all lanes on Interstate 10.

After a LONG ASS TIME I inched my way to an exit that I was forced to take. Only there was nobody directing traffic for the detour. So I, like everybody else…. Just kind of trusted the person in front of them, and we kept following each other through some SCARY inbreeding colony.

I actually saw one trailer that had 3, yes 3 cars up on blocks in their “front yard”. I also saw some dude slap his sister/wife outside their trailer.

After awhile I got out of my car and the semi driver behind me got out as well, and we sat on the street for 5 minutes talking. He didn’t know where we were either and had no other information which I found odd since he was a semi-driver and they all talk to each other to stay in the loop.

Anyway this was probably the first time I am glad I didn’t have a stick shift, and after 3 hours in Deliverance (a movie which I have never actually seen, but have been described so many times it’s now like an automated phrase to explain where I felt I was). I finally got out and back on the road.

After my long detour I wanted to go faster obviously being behind schedule, however there were cops all over after the accident. I mean they were busting people left and right! I saw 3 cops within 2 miles and all of them pulled somebody over. Bastards…

Other things of interest on this trip were:

A bridge that went virtually straight up and straight down for a long ways: I mean if somebody sneezed and let off the gas pedal for an instant on this bridge they would of slid back into traffic and killed hundreds of people, all for (I assume) reason that they wanted ships to go under this bridge without having to lift the bridge up.

Multiple flaming cars: One when I was exiting Louisiana, and one shortly after entering Texas. It was crazy, the first one was in a median and had started the grass all around it on fire, and the other one still had some idiot in it on a cell phone. I mean there was some crazy smoke in that thing, I imagine it was going through his vents pretty hard core, and his doors weren’t damaged he could of got out just fine.

U-turn lanes: Hey these are kind of cool. I mean Houston is freggin gigantic, but they came up with some cool ways to prevent traffic from being stopped. I can imagine it would be much worse without these things (which are off of every exit and also allow access to frontage roads etc..)

Well I made it, anyways I am very glad I bought satellite radio before this trip!

               

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