All Signs Post East!

One of my favorite Jimmy Buffett songs is called “School Boy Heart”. The reason for that is that the lyrics seem to talk about this journey I have been on.
The song has lines in it like “Frankenstein has nothing on this body of mine” and a line I quoted in an earlier post “I suspect I died in some cosmic shipwreck, with all hands spread all over the deck…. Then some kind of obscene and unscrupulous mind, began to pick up what he could find. Added ice, shook me twice, rolled the dice.” I seem to fit both of those lines.

I mean they took my stomach out. I have cadaver bones in me. I have a wondering eye that just doesn’t work right. I wear and eye patch.
In general I am missing or have damaged parts. And the parts I have are not all working correctly.
The song just fits.

So I am going to stick with that song and add another line with a new connection.

The line goes “I came with nomad feet and some wandering toes.”
Nomadic feet. Wondering toes.

It could have said Drifting. Gone walkabout or meandering. It doesn’t matter what you call it I am going to do it and the journey starts tomorrow.

And I am not going alone.

A Father/Son road trip.

We leave Tomorrow. Our destination? North Topsail Beach, North Carolina.

How to go? what to do? Maybe we just make it up as we go.

If I were to play it safe I would plan our route, plan our stops, and plan some events. Make sure that we spent our time wisely. Plan, plan, plan. However where is all the fun in that? So on Thursday we will just point the car east and go.  Head towards Chicago and at some point in time take a right. Head south towards Cincinnati and take a left. Then drive until we run out of roads at the ocean.

All the while exploring and seeing what sort of mischief we can get into (yea we will have our smart phones in case we get lost). We have roughly 48 hours to make a 22 hour drive. So Jack and I will be able to take our time and see what’s all going on between here and there. We will figure it out as we go, that is why they call it an adventure.

A Father/Son road trip!

I will be bring a laptop and hope to write some while I am out there. It’s been a while since I last wrote anything and there is plenty of “stuff” going on. So I plan on spending some time writing.

But for now I am just heading east….

I got a school boy heart, a novelist eye

Stout sailor's legs and a license to fly

I came with nomad feet and some wandering toes

That walk up my long board and hang off the nose

(School Boy Heart   Jimmy Buffett)