“It maxes out at fifty dollars”

June 19, 2004 10:15 MST

Currently: sitting in a mustard field outside of Boise Idaho.

(GK) - We drove 500 miles last night. Got out of Oregon as fast as possible. You can’t pump your own gas there. Drank a Peter Sellers last night after leaving Washington State.

(SB) - Got to bed at 5am get some coffee someone has to back this RV out of this one lane driveway. The RV people charge 4 dollars for using reverse.

(BVW) After 4 hours of restful sleep, we wake up parked in a mustard field. Fellow expeditioners are displeased with my snoring habit.

(STA) The learning curve in the RV is steep. Things I have learned in a short time and am better for them:
1. Curves of any mentionable degree are to be taken at a speed of not more than 80 km/h or disastrous results such as the destruction of the glass portion of the cocktail shaker occur.
2. Cold beer is better than tepid beer. Ice helps this endeavor.
3. All drinks consumed while riding on the open road are at least 20% tastier than those consumed while stopped.
4. Sparkle Brightstar is a magnet for falling radios
5. The Peter Sellers is a great drink:
Mix 1 and 1/2 oz. gin and fresh squeezed sweet ruby red grapefruit juice together
Add a good dash of Peychaud bitters and a handful of ice
Add 2 oz Squirt from a distance of 6 inches above the cup, so as to activate the bubbles.
Enjoy
6. We are more displeased with BVW’s flatulence habit

(All) Some Rules of the Road:

5:30pm (local time) – Mandatory stop for Happy Hour.
9:00pm (local time) – Get the Led out – One hour of Zepplin’s greatest hits.
10:00pm (local time) – Rolling Happy Hour. Cocktails in the back. The hour is started off with a hair metal groove. Last night: GnR – Anything Goes