You'll have to excuse me. I was just caught up thinking about a daring trip I took in July 2008. You may here me talk about it, although most people probably don't know I ever attempted it. I still think back about it and smile. Last July, my best friend, my little Neon and I tried to make it out to the east coast. We left here at 1:30am. We were destined for P.E.I., decided along the way after stopping in Cornwall after sunrise. My car is far from reliable, and my friend at the time had a broken leg. I didn't get any maintenance done to the car before we left. I just had a raging sense of adventure and not much else happening. We had about 3 days to make the 40 hour trip there and back. No one knew we were gone. And while my little beater was rolling to a stop somewhere along the Autoroute Jean-Lesage Highway 20 out past Quebec City exactly 12 hours after leaving Niagara, I was still managing to smile because I was far away from here. After deciding the only thing to do was to turn back towards home, I knew that repairs were necessary. Three repair shops later and $900 spent on a new fuel pump, we were heading back home.
I just remember little things from the trip that hang on to the corners of my mind and make my mouth water with longing to do it all over again. Bypassing the entire GTA in an hour and a half thanks to leaving in the dead of night, the hills and valleys of the north shore of Lake Ontario, the witnessing of ecosystems changing, signs warning of moose on the highway in Quebec, quiet and gradual sunrise through early morning fog, seeing destruction of forests near Kingston from acid rain, having some of the best conversation and mental breakthrough of my life, the feeling of driving on roads I've never been on, the list goes on and on. Don't ask what I was thinking, because you probably don't want to know. And don't try to convince me that it was a bad idea, because although I agree in some respects, I had my reasons for going.
Kingston sunrise on an uphill climb. One of the only photos taken on the entire trip. Taken with my cell phone. Camera battery died. July '08.
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