![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
in the car
We spent a lot of time in the car yesterday.
We are having our CoPA picnic in a few weeks, and I wanted to check out the park ahead of time. Not strictly necessary, but Cindy said she wanted to stop at the gallery in Milwaukee and pick up some of her zines because she's running out at home. And I wanted to go to the camera store, and also stop by the park where I'm having some landscaping work done for SAS.
The part for the picnic was very far away, and we spent less than ten minutes there. Then the gallery was closed. Not much to see at the park for the landscaping. Then we stopped for a beer. So that was an hour and a half (not counting the beer) with very little to show for it.
In the evening we were going to a concert. I decided we (barely) had time to meet some friends for a drink before the show. We left the house and turned south, seeing a big cloud of black smoke to the south. Not good. We got on the freeway, and I tried to figure out what was in the area that would be burning like that. Turns out it was on the freeway. A car was fully engulfed. Right in the construction zone where there were two lanes and no shoulders. So the freeway was closed, with us on it. I turned the car off, and we sat for 70 minutes. If we had been five minutes later, the traffic would have been backed up past an offramp, and we could have gone around the blockage. Finally we started crawling, and it took another ten minutes to make it past the point where the car had been.
The show was to start at 8:00, and it was 7:45. Previously, my plan was to park for free and walk 15 minutes to the show. I realized we could pay extra to park in the lot at the amphitheater. The musicians took the stage as we entered the amphitheater, and started playing as we reached our seats, at 8:15. Perfect!
But I had forgotten about the hazard of the parking lot for the venue. It took us 40 minutes to get out. So I estimate we spent over three hours in the car.
The show, by the way, was Sessanta. Maynard Keenan, of Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, decided to go on tour for his 60th birthday. He took APC and Puscifer on the road, along with Primus. He enjoyed it so much, he did it again this year.
We are having our CoPA picnic in a few weeks, and I wanted to check out the park ahead of time. Not strictly necessary, but Cindy said she wanted to stop at the gallery in Milwaukee and pick up some of her zines because she's running out at home. And I wanted to go to the camera store, and also stop by the park where I'm having some landscaping work done for SAS.
The part for the picnic was very far away, and we spent less than ten minutes there. Then the gallery was closed. Not much to see at the park for the landscaping. Then we stopped for a beer. So that was an hour and a half (not counting the beer) with very little to show for it.
In the evening we were going to a concert. I decided we (barely) had time to meet some friends for a drink before the show. We left the house and turned south, seeing a big cloud of black smoke to the south. Not good. We got on the freeway, and I tried to figure out what was in the area that would be burning like that. Turns out it was on the freeway. A car was fully engulfed. Right in the construction zone where there were two lanes and no shoulders. So the freeway was closed, with us on it. I turned the car off, and we sat for 70 minutes. If we had been five minutes later, the traffic would have been backed up past an offramp, and we could have gone around the blockage. Finally we started crawling, and it took another ten minutes to make it past the point where the car had been.
The show was to start at 8:00, and it was 7:45. Previously, my plan was to park for free and walk 15 minutes to the show. I realized we could pay extra to park in the lot at the amphitheater. The musicians took the stage as we entered the amphitheater, and started playing as we reached our seats, at 8:15. Perfect!
But I had forgotten about the hazard of the parking lot for the venue. It took us 40 minutes to get out. So I estimate we spent over three hours in the car.
The show, by the way, was Sessanta. Maynard Keenan, of Tool, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, decided to go on tour for his 60th birthday. He took APC and Puscifer on the road, along with Primus. He enjoyed it so much, he did it again this year.