Notes from the road

• My road warriors continue to impress. They turned in a single leg of 261 miles today—from I-10 to Gardendale. Understand, I’m not a hard-ass on this; if someone has to go to the restroom, or wants to stretch legs, or whatever, we stop. They just don’t need to. Awesome!
• I’ve mentioned before that I run 77 on the interstate. It’s fast enough to please my make-good-time circuit, and slow enough to avoid the attention of law enforcement. I don’t even deactivate the cruise control when I see a trooper in the median. 77 in a 70 just isn’t going to get you stopped. So I don’t worry too much about unmarked cars and the like except as an amused spectator, and wow, was I ever amused today. Guess what sprouted blue lights and a siren behind me about 30 miles south of Montgomery this morning? A silver Infiniti G35:

He glided by at 95 or so and got a gold Lexus in front of me. As a public service, I used to try to keep a list of unmarked makes and models I’d seen Alabama state troopers using, but if they’re using a G35 now, what’s the point? Quoting Lea: “Oh, that’s not even fair.” Heh.

• I’m slowly dropping pieces of technology for vacation. This year I left my GPS receiver and my scanner at home. I took a little shortwave radio, but didn’t turn it on the whole time we were there, so I could have left it at home too. Up next are the PDA and the laptop. I love my toys, but I’m beginning to ask frank questions about what they do for me when.
• Lea and I talked a bit in the car about how we vacation, and we’ve observed that we’ve retained a long weekend mentality, which is probably a holdover from the not-so-long-ago day when it was all we could afford. We’re going to make our next beach trip at least six nights.
• It was fun, and now we’re glad to be home.

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