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Re: Admit Something

Posted: Tue December 12, 2023 4:09 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Monkey_Driven wrote:How often do you people need to stop to pee? I can easily go 2-4 hours depending on how much I've had to drink.
Don't get me started

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Tue December 12, 2023 4:22 pm
by Monkey_Driven
Chris_H_2 wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:How often do you people need to stop to pee? I can easily go 2-4 hours depending on how much I've had to drink.
my family is a caravan of camels - we can easily go 5-6 hours, and sometimes more.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

In my youth I would often make the 5.5 hour drive home without stopping. No way now. I need to get out and stretch at least once on that drive.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Tue December 12, 2023 5:14 pm
by spike
I got over roadtrips in my 20s, after some 12-24 hour straight through voyages.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Tue December 12, 2023 5:17 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Tue December 12, 2023 5:59 pm
by dad
Monkey_Driven wrote:How often do you people need to stop to pee? I can easily go 2-4 hours depending on how much I've had to drink.
i try to drive at least a few hours before stopping, but i also try to stay hydrated.

whenever we go visit my wife's family in Kansas City, which is about a 4.5 hour drive, I try to drive straight through. Sometimes my bladder has other plans.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Tue December 12, 2023 6:10 pm
by wease
I can easily go 5-6 hours without a stop. Maybe even more. Mrs Wease and the Weaselings, however…

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Wed December 13, 2023 10:37 am
by Higgs
Chris_H_2 wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:How often do you people need to stop to pee? I can easily go 2-4 hours depending on how much I've had to drink.
my family is a caravan of camels - we can easily go 5-6 hours, and sometimes more.
This is me. The wife... not so much.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Wed December 13, 2023 1:12 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
We’re driving 12 hours each way up to Connecticut over the holidays, with five of us in the car. The rule is that if we stop for gas or for someone to pee, everyone has to go even if they don’t have to at the moment.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Wed December 13, 2023 2:23 pm
by Chris_H_2
E.H. Ruddock wrote:We’re driving 12 hours each way up to Connecticut over the holidays, with five of us in the car. The rule is that if we stop for gas or for someone to pee, everyone has to go even if they don’t have to at the moment.
This is the way

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Wed December 13, 2023 2:27 pm
by wease
Chris_H_2 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:We’re driving 12 hours each way up to Connecticut over the holidays, with five of us in the car. The rule is that if we stop for gas or for someone to pee, everyone has to go even if they don’t have to at the moment.
This is the way
Yep

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Wed December 13, 2023 6:05 pm
by oasisfan35
E.H. Ruddock wrote:We’re driving 12 hours each way up to Connecticut over the holidays, with five of us in the car. The rule is that if we stop for gas or for someone to pee, everyone has to go even if they don’t have to at the moment.
Lotta drivin' the a little state.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 2:33 am
by Monkey_Driven
Those northeastern states are so cute.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 3:13 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 6:35 am
by Bammer
tragabigzanda wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:Those northeastern states are so cute.
Clearly you’re never spent two hours on the Hutch
I dunno what that is but some of the worst traffic I have ever encountered was from Philly on the way to coastal Delaware.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 12:34 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 2:32 pm
by dad
oasisfan35 wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:We’re driving 12 hours each way up to Connecticut over the holidays, with five of us in the car. The rule is that if we stop for gas or for someone to pee, everyone has to go even if they don’t have to at the moment.
Lotta drivin' the a little state.
he could probably drive to each corner at least a couple of times.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 3:01 pm
by Chris_H_2
i remember driving from maine to rhode island. we did five states in less than 3 hours (for some reason we had to go into CT).

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 3:04 pm
by dad
Chris_H_2 wrote:i remember driving from maine to rhode island. we did five states in less than 3 hours (for some reason we had to go into CT).
for some reason...

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 3:12 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Guys, my drive is from NC to CT, going near Philly and NYC. It will be a nightmare.

Re: Admit Something

Posted: Thu December 14, 2023 3:14 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.