Exit 2008: Episode 6 - The East Coast (in one day or less)
- By Fredrick
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Having spend the previous five days on a tumultuous journey from New York City to Athens, Georgia. After a phenomenal concert and a short day of rest it was time to turn around and do it all again, but faster. The car we rented from the airport in Athens was due back in the East Village the following day at 10 AM. It was a crappy day and I was unhappy to leave Athens so soon after such a strenuous trip. I was also unhappy to be leaving in a rental car instead of the beautiful car I left home in.
But the rental was fast and new, even when it was running it was silent and still, so it was no surprise when I got nabbed in a speed trap for going 90 (a speed 10 mph under what I caught myself going from time to time). We drove through the afternoon and into the night, covering hundreds of miles in amazing time, with little more to do than watch the landscape go by. I felt a tinge of pain passing across the South Carolina border and past the King's Mountain exit. I wanted to burn the place down.
In Virginia we stopped to let Alexandra off at her sisters house. It was late and it wouldn't have been a terrible idea to stop then, but we pushed on. The hours trickled by, sometimes crawling and others slipping away two at a time when I wasn't looking. Three became Six and the dawn was less symbolic than it was the first night on the road. We snuck into New York before rush hour, and I brought Miranda home before returning the car to University Place.
Music by Laura Veirs.
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