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lisajulie before picking up a 10" truck on Friday morning and driving out to Ellicott City to pick up my girlfriend Tess and all her worldly goods. Tess had been working for TWENTY-ONE YEARS as a nanny for the same family and was now finally ready to leave. So four fiftish women and one teen-aged boy packed up all of her furniture and boxes into the truck (and bless her for having -everything- packed up and ready to go). Took us three hours in the horrible heat and humidity. Made me remember why I don't want to live on the East Coast anymore!
The truck was a rental from Penske and I found it ever so much nicer in every way than the trucks I have rented in the past couple years from U-Haul - as well as being cheaper than any other company's price quote. I would certainly rent a Penske truck any time in the future that I need one.
We finally finished up and drove out to a friend's house in Herndon for showers and chat and dinner. Also had a late lunch at a brand new doner kabob place in Herndon. It was kind of a hole in the wall in a little mostly-office strip mall butlisajulie's eyes are very sharp and she found it. I think we may have been the first anglo customers they ever had. Their English was very shaky, and we didn't quite get what we thought we ordered, but the food was GREAT, and the tea that lisajulie ordered with her meal come after the meal in a little flower shaped glass and was hot and sweet. Frankly a much more interesting meal than the quite fancy place that another girlfriend took us for dinner later that evening.
I haven't done a road trip in some years, although my last was also a trip with a truck - a one way trip from Colorado to Pennsic back in the last year that the worldcon was in Glasgow. The driving wasn't as tiring as I thought it would be, although we did a good 12 hours every day. Watching the countryside go from the encroaching woods of the eastern seaboard to the farmlands of the midwest and finally to the open plains of nebraska and colorado was interesting. I admit to a sigh of relief when we finally got west of the mississippi and (although there were still occasional copses of woods) there was a horizon again to be seen.
Don't think I'd like to be a truck driver, but there's certainly something to be said for the mental relaxation of a road trip. No phones, no computers, no email - just conversation and the calm of the road ahead.
The unpacking when we arrived in Colorado took barely 20 minutes with a crew of friends waiting for us, cool overcast weather, and the truck backed up to the garage. What a difference!
Not to mention my sweetie sitting out on the front porch and looking down the road waiting for me - something my friends told me had been doing patiently for over an hour.
lisajulie before picking up a 10" truck on Friday morning and driving out to Ellicott City to pick up my girlfriend Tess and all her worldly goods. Tess had been working for TWENTY-ONE YEARS as a nanny for the same family and was now finally ready to leave. So four fiftish women and one teen-aged boy packed up all of her furniture and boxes into the truck (and bless her for having -everything- packed up and ready to go). Took us three hours in the horrible heat and humidity. Made me remember why I don't want to live on the East Coast anymore!The truck was a rental from Penske and I found it ever so much nicer in every way than the trucks I have rented in the past couple years from U-Haul - as well as being cheaper than any other company's price quote. I would certainly rent a Penske truck any time in the future that I need one.
We finally finished up and drove out to a friend's house in Herndon for showers and chat and dinner. Also had a late lunch at a brand new doner kabob place in Herndon. It was kind of a hole in the wall in a little mostly-office strip mall but
lisajulie's eyes are very sharp and she found it. I think we may have been the first anglo customers they ever had. Their English was very shaky, and we didn't quite get what we thought we ordered, but the food was GREAT, and the tea that lisajulie ordered with her meal come after the meal in a little flower shaped glass and was hot and sweet. Frankly a much more interesting meal than the quite fancy place that another girlfriend took us for dinner later that evening.I haven't done a road trip in some years, although my last was also a trip with a truck - a one way trip from Colorado to Pennsic back in the last year that the worldcon was in Glasgow. The driving wasn't as tiring as I thought it would be, although we did a good 12 hours every day. Watching the countryside go from the encroaching woods of the eastern seaboard to the farmlands of the midwest and finally to the open plains of nebraska and colorado was interesting. I admit to a sigh of relief when we finally got west of the mississippi and (although there were still occasional copses of woods) there was a horizon again to be seen.
Don't think I'd like to be a truck driver, but there's certainly something to be said for the mental relaxation of a road trip. No phones, no computers, no email - just conversation and the calm of the road ahead.
The unpacking when we arrived in Colorado took barely 20 minutes with a crew of friends waiting for us, cool overcast weather, and the truck backed up to the garage. What a difference!
Not to mention my sweetie sitting out on the front porch and looking down the road waiting for me - something my friends told me had been doing patiently for over an hour.
