"Modern cruise control (also known as a speedostat or tempomat) was invented in 1948 by the inventor and mechanical engineer Ralph Teetor. His idea was born out of the frustration of riding in a car driven by his lawyer, who kept speeding up and slowing down as he talked."
Amarillo to Baton Rouge took me 11.5 hours. I left at 5:30am and got there at 6pm. It was a very long drive but not the worst. It was just mentally draining. You know when you play guitar hero for a really long time and then when you stop and look away from the screen and everything looks like it's still moving, that's how I felt when I finally made it, and when you are in the ocean waves all day and you got to sleep and still feel the waves, when I went to sleep I felt like I was still in a car. I drove across the pan handle of Texas through Dallas then down Louisiana. The first 9 hours were pretty much all Texas, flat and farm land very boring. I was back in the Louis CK and classic rock phase. I am trying to think about what I thought about in the car during these hours because I had some funny thoughts but my mind is pretty much mush right now. Maybe the next leg they will come back to me.
The last three hours were pretty tough. It was raining a bit on and off and sometimes hard to see the road but the hardest part was I was getting tired eyed. So I resorted to my methods of staying focused: 5 hour energy drink, sun flower seeds, LCD Soundsystem. Thanks Ben for the 5 hour and seeds. So I was raging the last couple hours, my mouth is still a bit raw from all the salt on the seeds, I usually shove a handful into my mouth, put them in my upper lip and then crack one at a time, got to use the back molars to crack then the front teeth to get the seed. People who only use their front teeth are amateurs. I filled an empty Snapple bottle with shells, yum.
Got off the exit to Chadd's and rolled down there windows, it was actually pretty nice to feel some humidity compared to the dry Vail and desert I was just in. Baton Rouge is pretty bad but a lot of the water has receded and most of the roads are back open. You can see there is a lot of debris where the water got really high. It'll take some time to get everything cleaned but for be most part, at least around LSU, people are in good spirits, welcome to Baton Rouge. Chadd found me and gave me his Chadd bark yell and hug. We got some groceries and he cooked some dope ass chicken pasta and veggies, Chadd is a good cook. Took it easy then went to bed since we were both pretty beat and my mind was a potato. I slept like a baby.
Y'all!!!!
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