I'm sure Nate will give an equally compelling recap of our Vermont getaway, so deal with it. First portion will be a relatively complete recap but for those with short attention spans I'll provide a bulleted recap after that.
-Several hours into the drive we stop to get some food for lunch/late dinner. So we enter a Chinese restaurant. We proceed to grab some menus while contemplating our orders, feeling bold I decide to try the chicken fried rice for a change and step in front of Nate, Jackie, and Creepy Steve. Order my food, return the group area and patiently wait for everyone else to order. Now unbeknownst(that may or may not actually be a word) to me I'm still wearing my awesomely efficient cape, which may or may not have made everyone there think I was legitimately retarded. Now the reason I mentioned this is because not a single one of my "friends" said anything about my foolishness. They claim that they didn't notice but I stood with my back to them for a few minutes while ordering my food, and clearly they saw it but choose to say nothing. I know regret how nice I was to them later on.
-After the cape debacle the journey hit the home stretch at about 6:30. So, at 6:30ish we're about half an hour away the car is loaded with beer for the night and I'm eager to be drunk before the rest of the party shows up. Driving down the backroads of Vt in the dark is a very disappointing experience, but my reversed cabin fever(or perhaps my car induced cabin fever) has me giddy. After a long shouting match between Nate and Jackie, where Nate explains the importance of not following mapquest's directions we're within fifteen minutes of the cabin. And then everything goes stupid. See, I didn't say it went wrong, because stupid despite not proper English fits better.
After staying on one single road for thirty or so miles Creepy Steve tells Nate to make a right onto Lake View Lane. Now the main road wasn't perfectly cleared but there was very little snow, and clear tracks of exposed pavement where other cars had driven before, but LVL looks as if it hasn't been plowed in a week. But Nate and Creepy Steve are foolishly confident with this decision. Jackie looks for her seat belt as we start down the hilly snow covered road into nowhere, I simply think what's the worst that could happen, we slide off the road , nbd. After less than thirty seconds everyone in the car has silently agreed(well Jackie and I at least) that this is a terrible idea but it's actually fun in a terrifying kind of way and we're doing well so let's just roll with it. After about a mile and a half, going up what turns out to be the final hill Nate's little engine that could, no longer can. Then in an impressive feat Nate somehow gets his car turned less than halfway around on the one lane road and falls off into the snow bank.
At first things don't look too bad, we appear to still be on the road, and the snow doesn't seem too deep, but our initial optimism is dashed when Creepy Steve steps knee deep into the snow. Fun sidenote, as soon as we stepped out of the car to assess the situation we hear a coyote howling off in the distance. Good times. So after a little fruitless pushing we decide to call triple a but without service this is tough, but I'm thinking if I just continue up this hill maybe I'll get some service, crazier things have happened. By now though Nate has slipped into "Horror Movie Survival Mode" and Creepy Steve is sent up the hill with me. On the way up I notice a seemingly abandoned house, which with Nate's horror movie paranoia is enough to make me nervous, but then we hear the always ominous wind chimes and immediately run back to the car shouting.
With no other options we start walking down to the road hoping to find decent cell service for the first time in about two hours. By the time we reach the road it's close to eight. In completely predictable fashion we still have no service so without other options Jackie and Nate start heading to one of the three houses within eye sight. We sent Jackie because she's a girl and is a lot less threatening than a guy, and Nate was sent because he's friendly and manly enough to protect Jackie. So while Hansel and Gretal go skipping off to their date with an oven Steve and I stand around the end of the drive way and contemplate our other options should all else fail. After meeting one of the nicest guys ever Jackie and Nate return to patiently wait for the tow truck to arrive. An hour passes and what we correctly guessed was the misses returns to our new best friend's house. Around 9 he comes out in his car to tell us the first tow company isn't coming and that a second one is coming from forty five minutes away, and that we're welcome to hang out in his house while we wait and get warm. Initially we opt to head back to the car, get some liquid courage and then head back down. We hang out in their kitchen for about 15 minutes until the tow truck arrives.
Now that the truck is here we talk to the driver and let him know we're up the road and we'll see them there. They offer us a ride and since the cab is full the four of us find spots on the back of the truck. Jackie and Creepy Steve hop on the back of the truck itself, leaving Nate and I to sit on the fork lift that they use to lift cars up off the ground. On the way up this snow covered road, I hear Jackie say this, "they're holding onto the handles in the cab, they're nervous." Now when you're sitting on the back of a pickup truck moving at considerable speed with the very real chance of falling off this isn't comforting news. But we make it to Nate's car, and after getting over the impressive nature of Nate's tiny little car they begin to pull the car out.
As luck would have it as Nate's car is just about freed, we see headlights come in the distance and it's the first car of the two car convoy that left hours after us. Quickly Nate realizes that the second car will be coming and he sends me running down the mile long road to prevent certain disaster. With that crisis averted I head back up the hill to help push the other car back so we can't get back to cleared roads and on with the weekend.
-With the snowy lane behind us we reach the cabin, play games like drink the beer, people go hottubing, Nate and I take a nice hike, we play catch phrase, more hot tub, Nate and I end up sleeping the same room.
BULLETED RECAP RECAP RECAP! (That's meant to be said like a monster truck announcer)
-Go to Boston
-Leave Boston
-Put on "cape" as joke.
-Get food while forgetting about said cape.
-Realize my "friends" are jackasses, and should have told me about the cape before I made an ass of myself.
-Keep driving, and despite forewarning use directions given by mapquest.
-Stuck in the snow
-Use strangers phone because we have no service.
-Two to three hours later tow truck arrives
-Hour later Nate's car is out and we've pushed another one back.
-Arrive at cabin.
-At one point I think I made like 7 straight shots in beerpong, a feat which will never be repeated.
-Brokeback weekend truly begins.
-Hijinks follow.
-Sexual tension with two different people.
-Predictably and yet somewhat surprisingly share a room with Nate.
-Drive home with much less drama and physical exertion.
More Brokeback Weekend Facts:
-I feel like I kind of stole Steve's thunder. It was supposed to be his broke back weekend with Nate.
-Nate might actually believe his life is a horror movie. This is really funny or really depressing.
-Didn't see a moose, but did see "bear cub tracks," or perhaps dog tracks I'm not an animal expert.
-Vermont is a cool state, terrible cell service but fun place.
-On the way back we searched for a deli that Nate and I stopped at in consecutive years when we were entering high school but we're unable to find it.
-We did however find our way to Long Trail Brewery, and got a great self-guided tour and some good food with good beer. It was a bit of redemption for not being able to drink at Federal Jack's.
-I may have impressed Nate with my ability to read a map, and my clear memories of our youth despite not finding the deli.
-Whether or not anyone agrees with him, someone said that there was clear sexual tension between me and Jackie, which is fantastic.
-Additionally there is clear sexual tension between Nate and I.
-Despite being much colder than back home the temperature never bothered me, even while stuck in the snow for hours. Northface jacket ftw.
-gg.
Now a little musical break from a band I absolutely love...As Tall As Lions.
Now that we're three weeks or so into season 8 of scrubs, I must say I am enjoying the new season. Which really shouldn't be a surprise considering how forgiving I am of poor seasons after two or three good ones.
Some upcoming shows I would like to be a part of...
Wed 3/4- Anathallo at the Mercury Lounge.
Sun 3/8- The Airborne Toxic Event at the Bowery Ballroom.
Wed 3/11- The Airborne Toxic Event at the Bowery Ballroom.
Sat 3/14- Butch Walker at Webster Hall.
Fri 3/27- The Gaslight Anthem at Webster Hall.
Sat 4/4- The Damnwells at the Mercury Ballroom
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