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January 20, 2009

Exit 2008: Episode 3 - The Great North Carolina Escape


After waking up in that uninspired hotel room, I realized it wasn't all a terrible dream. It was terrible, but it wasn't a dream. Immediately I started thinking up options, we were close enough that if we got to Charlotte we could take a bus to Atlantic City and then another bus to New York. The total cost of that was more than it would take to rent a car, though, so we started looking at car rental places. Enterprise was by far the cheapest, but they expect you to bring it back to the same place you rented it - no out of state drop offs. The only other contender was Budget, which was still looking like $300.

We called the rental office and asked for their neighborhood pick up, and she refused, telling me that her boss said no, but then telling Miranda that she just didn't know the area. All in all she refused to let us talk to her boss and hung up. The office was in Gastonia, which was quite a ways away, but we got our first break when I was able to pay the maintenance man at the hotel to drive me to the budget office to get a car.

So 15 miles away the lady at the office tried charging us an extra $200 and just as I stormed out of her office, I saw the maintenance man drive off. So once again I was separated from my friends and hopeless. Just as I was about to hit the bottom the clouds parted and a heavenly light filled me with warmth as I got a message from Jason saying he would come rescue us from this hell. So in the 5 hours of travel time, I walked as far as I could and Miranda and Alex amused themselves in a small town Wendys. 

Music by The Carolina Chocolate Drops and Axe Riverboy.

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