Amid great hoopla and fan fare the the Westfield Blue Summer Road Trip has begun. The Gold KIA mini van pulled down Brightwood, headed on the 654 mile trek down I95 at 10:30am amid blue skies and throngs of well wishers lining the roads. Well, maybe not throngs, maybe just Simon, Matt, Mono, Roseanne, Dave, Matt and of course Westfield Blue's # 1 fan, Jim B.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin or Dave and Greg?
Its hard to draw a comparison to today's take off, part of me likened the preparation to what it must be like on the launch pad at mission control. Last minute prep work to make more room, remove seats (how many dads does it take to remove 2 removable seats from a South Korean made minivan? see answer below), arrange 500 bags of cargo in the precise way so that the re-entry vehicle wont skip off earth's atmosphere http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/spaceship-apollo-12.jpg goo(or in this case get us a ticket from Sheriff Buford T Pusser http://www.sheriffbufordpusser.com/BufordPhotos.html somewhere south of the NJ Turnpike.
Lewis and Clark or Dave and Greg?
The fans this morning must have felt the same way the American people did over 206 years ago when Lewis and Clark started their epic trek up the Missouri into the Louisiana Territory. Sending our expeditionary team ahead, a little short on provisions, a little short on style but more than enough grit, cigars and motivation must have been how Thomas Jefferson felt as the Lewis and Clark expedition set sail up the Missouri River into the Louisiana Territory.
Dave and Greg's Map
Lewis and Clark's Map
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