Thanksgiving 2002 – Orange County

Road Trip Story

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“I don’t want to be a pie,

I don’t like gravy!”

North-South road stats:

South-North road stats:

·    Date: Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002

·    Origin: Northside, Berkeley, CA

·    Destination: South Orange County, CA

·    Passengers: Ksenya, Andrew M., Diana, Nick

·    Planned time of departure: 4 pm

·    First attempt at departure: 8 pm

·    Actual time of departure: 9 pm

·    Times driving around campus: 2

·    Times coming back for food left behind: 1

·    Number of GSI offices not found: 2

·    Times returning home to email paper: 1

·    Time of arrival at Andrew’s house: 4 am

·    Miles traveled door-to-door: 433.2

·    Yahoo’s time estimation: 6 hrs 39 minutes

·    Hours of driving: 7

·    Hours of Andrew driving: 1

·    Music: Bob (Blood on the Tracks), two more Bobs (?, Bootleg Series), Royal Tennenbaums Soundtrack, Phish live.

·    Date: Sunday, Dec 1, 2002

·    Origin: Orange County, CA

·    Destination: Berkeley, CA

·    Passengers: Ksenya, Andrew M., Diana, Nick, bike in the trunk

·    Planned time of departure: 10 am

·    Actual time of departure from house: 12 pm

·    Actual time of departure in rental: 1 pm

·    Time of arrival at Ksenya’s house: 10 pm

·    Time of arrival at STB: 10:30pm

·    Hours of driving: 10.5

·    Hours of driving over 10 mph: about 5

·    Hours of Andrew driving: 0.5 (but at 80 mph over 10 mph)

·    Music: Led Zeppelin (II, Houses of the Holy), Bob (Another side of Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home), Dire Straits, Tom Petty (Wildflowers), Queen (Red Greatest Hits), Cat Stevens (Tea for Tillerman, three times), Santana, Royal Tennenbaums, some green cd.

Alyssa is so sad she’s not coming with us, she’s almost crying.

That’s Kendra, she is invisible, or rather, see-thru.

Architecture Andrews are loading the car.

Nick figured out how to use his camera, yay!

Thursday day: Rancho Santa Margarita, Orange County

·    Number of different musical instruments at Andrew’s house: over 20

·    Times Andrew played the violin for us: 0

·    Times Andrew played the recorder to wake us up: more than necessary

·    Number of Diana and Ksenya drums-piano duets: 3

·    Number of Foosball games: 1000

·    Number of Foosball injuries: 1

Thursday night: Turkey dinner, then keg stands with the U.S. Marines Corps

·    Number of keg stands team Berkeley: 1 (Nick)

·    Number of keg stands team U.S. Marines: 9

·    Longest keg stand [90 degrees angle to the ground]: 17 seconds

·    “TG” (Tap Girl): Diana

Friday day: Surfing at San Onofre Beach, San Diego County

·    Number of rainy days: 2

·    Number of surfing days: 1

·    Number of days surfing in the rain: 1

·    Beach Boys songs listened to on the way: 5

·    Times Ksenya and Diana randomly start singing during the weekend: two hundred thousand

·    Waves Ksenya caught: 0

·    Waves Diana caught: “0.2”

·    Waves Nick caught: 1 or

·    Waves Andrew, John, and Tyler caught: a lot

·    Number of people who had fun regardless: 6

Eating Pedro’s Tacos bean & cheese burritos and burning palm fronds

Saturday: at Popabob’s in Laguna Beach

We thought that we’re spying on tide pool life. Little did we know that we’re being spied on…

Saturday night:

Getting arrested by Irvine police

Unfortunately, no camera was on hand to document any of that night’s events

·    Number of arrests: 1

·    Number of cops making the arrest: 2

·  Number of cops to replace a light bulb: at least 5

The Jaccuzzi Effect

·    Number of (liquor) stores open at 1 am in RSM: 0

·    Number of pedestrians out at 1 am: 0

·    Number of pedestrians in Orange County at any time of day: 0

·    Number of non-pastel-colored-red-tile-roofed houses: 0

·    Number of times we were asked if we’re vegetarian because we’re from Berkeley: 5

·    Number of times we were asked if we’re vegetarian by cops: equivalent of 1

·    Number of times Ksenya has been asked by cops if she’s on drugs: 4 within a half hour

·    Illegal substances in Ksenya’s system at that point: 0

·    Number ids in Diana’s purse: 3

·    Number ids in Diana’s name in Diana’s purse: 2

·    Owner of the 3^rd id: Kendra

·   Number of Jacuzzi Effect Experiments: 2

·   Perfect Jacuzzi Effect temperature: 95 F

·   Temperature at which people start passing out: 110 F

·   Number of donuts it takes for Andrew to go insane/die: 1

·  Boiling point of sugar: 220 F

Sunday (all) day:  driving home

Games played in the car:

·    I Spy: short-lived, not very much to spy on Hwy 5

·    Clap-clap-clap-snap-snap-and-say-the-previous-and-a-new-member-of-a-category: rounds included: car models, people at STB, Foreign Presidents from the past 70 years, Australians [featuring Nick, Nicole Kidman, Koala, Kangaroo, Echidna, Russell Crowe, Mel Gibson, Dave, and a couple of fake Australians that Andrew made up]; lightning round: Zodiac signs.

Mister popular…

Cirque de Voiture: Andrew-and-Ksenya-Cirque-de-Soleil imitation tug-of-war handstands.

Diana-Gets-Into-The-Trunk game

Storytelling: ended with a tragic twist in the plot about the dragon Spike Lee and Mama and Papa Bear.

Bikram Yoga Simulation in the back seat: turn on the heater full blast and practice Upward and Downward Dog, the Cobra, Ommmm (and little Om) position, Put-Your-Foot-Behind-Your-Head position, Back Stretch, Simple Cross-Legged position, Head Stand (beautiful execution, considering space availability), and other favorites.

ARE WE EVER GOING TO GET HOME!?!?!?

Tired of playing games, we got comfortable: Diana facing backwards, head on the front seat’s armrest, her legs in the trunk next to the bike chain and butt to the left side door; Ksenya leaning backwards with shotgun seat reclined all the way back; Andrew, get your foot off the map light; Nick bravely driving onward at 3 mph.

Le Fin