20 hours in a van....




We're enroute to florida, driving from chicago 20 hours straight through in our van. With gas prices the way they are lately and show budgets being tight, we've been trying to cut back on expenses and thus we've been vanning it old skool as much as we can. I do miss having a bus, but the thousands of dollars we're saving right now help make up for it. Plus there's some old skool charm to sleeping in a van, which takes me back to the old days. I actually slept pretty well. Here's a montage of shots from hour 15 after a nights sleep in the van. When there's nothing else to do, we end up nibbling stuff we buy in gas stations. Matt is so bored that he picked up my book for a bit to "read the first book he's read in 10 years". Dave has been catching up on sleep, we call him the sleepinator.. he can sleep in any position on command, I think he got 12 hours last night. Both the girls live on their cellphones, so much that once when andy vegas saw tricia without her phone, he was like "there's something different about you, oh wait there it is" and he held his cellphone against her head. Our other favorite pastime in the van is teasing each other and we recycle the same old jokes again and again and act out the same script, saying the same things on cue, just like a family. Sometimes it makes me want to scream but it reminds me of the old days, when there were no cellphones, no laptops, no DVD players and all you had was each other. Right now Tricia is telling us how she saw "flight of the navigator" as a kid and really badly wanted a little alien to keep as a pet..

Posted: Fri - September 9, 2005 at 03:47 PM          

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