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Last week's Friday Five
1. What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country? I went to Destin last week with my family. I spent the majority of the trip lying prostrate in the sand and reading. I also ate lots and lots of cheesecake. 2. What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling? Once my luggage was lost for a month. I flew to Boulder for Christmas in '95 and had to wear my male friend's clothes. I never thought I'd see my camera, eyeglasses, or birkenstocks again, but somehow my bag turned up in a Budget Rental Car office in the Denver airport and they sent it to me. A new year had dawned! Weeks had gone by! Miracles do happen, folks. 3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go? This might sound stupid, but a summer never goes by when I don't regularly wish I were back at camp in North Carolina. 4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car? My trip to Europe was my only real experience with train travel, and my main memory is of the truly hellacious twelve-hour ride from Italy to Austria, spent in a tiny suffocating smoking car. I gagged and choked the entire time. I'm not altogether intolerant of smoke, either, but it was ridiculous. I knew it was bad when I preferred the foul bathroom to the smell of train car. I'm not a huge fan of flying. So I'd have to say car. As long as there are windows to roll down, sunroofs to open, songs to blast, and plenty of room for icees and snacks, I'm good to go. I've taken a couple of really fun road trips with my sister. We've driven to Atlanta twice for concerts at Chastain Park, and despite my tendency to clutch at the door in histronic fear of her driving, we always have a great time, analyzing lyrics and singing and sometimes just sitting in silence, but always with a McFlurry or two nearby. 5. What's the next place on your list to visit? I will be traveling to Martha's Vineyard next month for my friend's wedding. I'm actually flying to Newark and then driving in with another friend in a rental car. We've decided (okay, I've decided) that we are going to stuff our faces with travel junk food like trail mix and Sonic the entire way there. After the drive, we'll park and take a passenger ferry to the island. Edited to add: You don't really want me to tell you that there is absolutely no Sonic anywhere in the Northeast...do you? ELIZA O FUCKING HELL! Please suggest an appropriate substitute at once! MELISSA Oh, poor Eliza. You are in for a rude awakening. The NJ to Massachusetts drive has got to be one of the worst in the country. I suggest stopping at a supermarket if you can find one and loading up on junk, because there won't be anything but rest stop food. It is truly, truly sad. ELIZA ARGH! @#$!%#&@^! Sigh. If you ever get electricity again and can read this, traveling companion, brace yourself for Operation Supermarket Invasion. I am talking about things like cracker jacks, funyuns, and giant bags of Hershey's miniatures. (What is wrong with the Northeast? How can you even survive without Sonic grilled cheese sandwiches on Texas toast? I am in awe of you people.)
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