Monday, February 5, 2007

heading out (and back in)

we left to take marshall's car to the lake on saturday, after a wonderful and friend filled lunch at The Earth. we spent the last two nights chilling out, eating cooler commodities, and listening to the waves of lake texoma. We had some awesome plans to ride four wheelers that did not come to fruition, so instead, we decided to do something along similar lines - we built a tower fire (log cabin style) on the beach of that unsuspecting gated community. the fire, it turned out, wanted a sacrifice - it attempted to eat the two tofu dogs we cooked over it. at the end of that ordeal, a really nice dog named Baxter got to eat a lot of popcorn and two fully prepared soy dogs, the fire ate a lot of wood, and we went back into the house to eat spaghetti.
later that evening, we got the car stuck in the sand. thank the woods for making logs, and thank logs for giving us back some traction and marshall for lifting the car out of the sand.

our plan for today was to head up to stillwater, with a short run through norman to pick up bikes and paychecks and etc.. As with the atvs, our plans were again thwarted. a hose broke on my car and we were met with the sweet smell of antifreeze scorching (which is like maple syrup). a nice man stopped to help us and razorbladed off a piece of my car, which didn't solve the problem- but was still very nice of him to stop. soon after, however, we drove hoseless to a gas station nearby that carried clamps, so we clamped our hose tight and set off again only for the radiator to decide that it had had enough of our company and to leave us for the next life.

right now, we're hanging out in norman for the night. we're going to put a new radiator in my car tomorrow and be on the way to stillwater, and as kyle says, after we're done with oklahoma, we'll go on into the world.

safe travels to you.
-jeanie (minor edits from marshall because i thought four by fours were atvs but apparently they are planks of wood)

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