Zona

Ah to be young again.

My son the drummer has moved back home for the time being. He and a friend drove across the frikkin ROCKY frikkin MOUNTAINS in the frikkin WINTERTIME in a 1966 Plymouth. The friend has a truck too but he told me that the last time he drove the truck over from Calgary he burned as much oil as gasoline.

I'm just glad we didn't see pictures of this sled BEFORE they set out across the snow and mud covered mountain range. For those of you unfamiliar with the geography of the region allow me to tell you that it is an 11 hour drive to Vancouver from Calgary on a GOOD day and that at least 8 of those hours you are in mountains and a good portion of that time you are on two lane, traffic each way, roads because Canada has yet to grasp the idea of highways.

The boys wisely completed the trek in two days.

I have a 2004 Buick and it would take a hot tub full of friendly ladies in the presidential suite at the Palisier Hotel in Calgary to convince ME to make that drive during the winter.