Le Travelogue d'Atlanta
Friday
It took about 5 hours to get to my destination, once all the lovely maintenance on my car was done. Then another 20 minutes to get music and food for the road. (No road trip is complete without Led Zeppelin III. If you don't hit the interstate with a powerful ballad like "Immigrant Song" to get it going, then you don't really ever go anywhere.) The drive down was pretty eventless. When I got into town, I thought I'd take a detour and avoid an interstate that I thought would be jam-packed. That wound up getting me lost for a couple hours. I finally did make it to Matt and Steve's house around 7, and then their Halloween party started around 8:30ish. That was a pretty sweet gig. Met a lot of cool people, not sure if I got drunk--I was pretty alert most of the time--even while dancing. But I did down four beers--two Sam Adams winter lagers, a Shiner bock, and a PBR. Can't forget the smoothie with coconut rum, either! But yeah...none of it phased me--except for the bitter taste of the alcohol. Had to occasionally break that up with some Big K orange or cheese ball.
Saturday
Woke up around noon, hung out a bit at the house, then ventured out to eat at Savage Pizza in Little Five Points. The place was awesome--it was a comic-book themed place with great food. I had a calzone with green chiles, fresh basil, roasted garlic, andouille sausage, and white garlic sauce in it. Afterwards, Matt and I went to a couple record stores down the street--bought Roger Waters' Radio KAOS. In the other record store, there were signs up everywhere saying there was a free Mute Math concert there in the store THAT DAY. 3 PM! We look at our cell phone time--it's 4:11 PM, which explains why there's no Mute Math. Drat.
Later that night, we had another party--this time a birthday party for one of our friend's roommates. We knew there'd be cake, but probably not supper, so we figured on stopping at Church's on the way over. So we go through their drive-thru, pull up to the speaker and before we order--we're told how long it'll take. "It'll be 20 minutes before we have any chicken ready. The person in front of you just bought all the chicken." If you could've seen the look on our faces...it was one of the most priceless moments ever. Some person in the Explorer in front of us just bought a restaurant full of chicken! Yeah...nothing strange about that. So we went to Mrs Winner's about a block away and took that 20 minutes waiting for our food there instead. Once we make it to the party, we had cake, some draft cider, played some Trivial Pursuit and Wii, and left. So yeah, that was fun. Very fun.
More coming later...
It took about 5 hours to get to my destination, once all the lovely maintenance on my car was done. Then another 20 minutes to get music and food for the road. (No road trip is complete without Led Zeppelin III. If you don't hit the interstate with a powerful ballad like "Immigrant Song" to get it going, then you don't really ever go anywhere.) The drive down was pretty eventless. When I got into town, I thought I'd take a detour and avoid an interstate that I thought would be jam-packed. That wound up getting me lost for a couple hours. I finally did make it to Matt and Steve's house around 7, and then their Halloween party started around 8:30ish. That was a pretty sweet gig. Met a lot of cool people, not sure if I got drunk--I was pretty alert most of the time--even while dancing. But I did down four beers--two Sam Adams winter lagers, a Shiner bock, and a PBR. Can't forget the smoothie with coconut rum, either! But yeah...none of it phased me--except for the bitter taste of the alcohol. Had to occasionally break that up with some Big K orange or cheese ball.
Saturday
Woke up around noon, hung out a bit at the house, then ventured out to eat at Savage Pizza in Little Five Points. The place was awesome--it was a comic-book themed place with great food. I had a calzone with green chiles, fresh basil, roasted garlic, andouille sausage, and white garlic sauce in it. Afterwards, Matt and I went to a couple record stores down the street--bought Roger Waters' Radio KAOS. In the other record store, there were signs up everywhere saying there was a free Mute Math concert there in the store THAT DAY. 3 PM! We look at our cell phone time--it's 4:11 PM, which explains why there's no Mute Math. Drat.
Later that night, we had another party--this time a birthday party for one of our friend's roommates. We knew there'd be cake, but probably not supper, so we figured on stopping at Church's on the way over. So we go through their drive-thru, pull up to the speaker and before we order--we're told how long it'll take. "It'll be 20 minutes before we have any chicken ready. The person in front of you just bought all the chicken." If you could've seen the look on our faces...it was one of the most priceless moments ever. Some person in the Explorer in front of us just bought a restaurant full of chicken! Yeah...nothing strange about that. So we went to Mrs Winner's about a block away and took that 20 minutes waiting for our food there instead. Once we make it to the party, we had cake, some draft cider, played some Trivial Pursuit and Wii, and left. So yeah, that was fun. Very fun.
More coming later...
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