okay, so we'll meet you at the lorimer L stop at 10
friday morning:
okay we're running a little behind, let's say lorimer at 10:30
a little later, friday morning:
can we make that 11?
a little after that, friday morning:
you know what, they're still loading the car, you just come up to the montrose stop and meet us at the lofts...
an auspicious beginning. road trips wouldn't be road trips without the whole setting-off-hours-later-than-planned thing. finally leave brooklyn at ten to one.
catskills:
blonde redhead - william's mix CD - the ponys - electrelane, cc and arielle.3 dancing in the front, making the car swerve all over the place - the smiths, the CD was scratched - johnny cash, loretta lynn
stopping almost every two hours for pee breaks, food, coffee, stretching legs, everyone (apart from the driver) moving one seat to the left so we were in constant rotation as to who was in the front passenger seat
the albany toll booth, asking the kid there what radio station to listen to, ending up with the local albany hiphop station
the adirondacks:
ELO - beautiful sunsets - the velvet underground, talking about what this album made us all think of - telling stories about arielle
setting off firecrackers in the back lot of a remote truck stop - william, peter and arielle.3 bundling back in the car and yelling at us to go while cc and i calmly lit sparklers in front of the car - five minutes later and they're all playing with sparklers too (that we bought from the truck stop) and someone comes out and kindly asks us to move on ("hey if it was up to me, i mean, i don't care, but my boss, he wants y'all to go...")
dark driving to the border - sonic youth blaring loudly - arielle starts crying as we're waiting in line at the border checkpoint
finally arrive in montreal at about 10, 10:30. her new place is tiny and dirty. we throw stuff in, head out for a drink, but are so cracked out and travel weary, we don't last too long.
welcome to canada...
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