Friday, March 21, 2008
Onward and downward
We started our journey home today. Like geese flying south for the winter, we pulled together our belongings in tight formation and started our migration. Actually we went east across Colorado and Kansas before we turned south.
The weather was very accommodating and at the 75mph speed limit had us skimming across the heartland. We passed the two headed goat, 5 legged cow and largest prairie dog displays along the Kansas highway. I don't find the Kansas plains nearly as boring as some. My fellow spring breaker and I managed to get the gears meshing again. The audio book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams certainly helped.
Our little auto audio visual setup is quite the Rube Goldberg device. The GPS stuck to the windshield is connected via bluetooth to my phone, this allows me to take and place calls using the GPS as a cordless hands free device, the GPS is also connected to one of those cassette adapters via it's headphone jack. This transfers the sounds coming from the GPS to the car stereo, these sounds include the GPS directions, the phone calls and the MP3 player built into the GPS. Are you following me? Our books on tape are in MP3 format, so while we are listening to the book the GPS will pause the book to give us driving instructions, or handle an incoming phone call. It actually works quite well!
We stopped for dinner at "The most famous BBQ in Oklahoma" I am not sure if that's true but it is the only BBQ joint I have been to that serves popcorn with all it's meals and Tootsie Rolls for everyone for desert. Dinner was good but I must say not up to our Texas standards with or without popcorn.
The weather was very accommodating and at the 75mph speed limit had us skimming across the heartland. We passed the two headed goat, 5 legged cow and largest prairie dog displays along the Kansas highway. I don't find the Kansas plains nearly as boring as some. My fellow spring breaker and I managed to get the gears meshing again. The audio book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams certainly helped.
Our little auto audio visual setup is quite the Rube Goldberg device. The GPS stuck to the windshield is connected via bluetooth to my phone, this allows me to take and place calls using the GPS as a cordless hands free device, the GPS is also connected to one of those cassette adapters via it's headphone jack. This transfers the sounds coming from the GPS to the car stereo, these sounds include the GPS directions, the phone calls and the MP3 player built into the GPS. Are you following me? Our books on tape are in MP3 format, so while we are listening to the book the GPS will pause the book to give us driving instructions, or handle an incoming phone call. It actually works quite well!
We stopped for dinner at "The most famous BBQ in Oklahoma" I am not sure if that's true but it is the only BBQ joint I have been to that serves popcorn with all it's meals and Tootsie Rolls for everyone for desert. Dinner was good but I must say not up to our Texas standards with or without popcorn.
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