Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Driving

I have been driving by myself for a little while now. Just short little trips to the döner stand or to the grocery five feet away from the döner stand. Today, however, I was a driving machine! I took bottles to the grocery to get a refund, took cardboard to the recycling center, went to Media Markt to buy ink cartridges for the printer, to IKEA to buy doors for some cupboards, to the Fiat dealer to get some parts for the truck, and of course to the döner stand for lunch. And I only thought I was going to die twice! I never really got lost either. I always knew where I was...it was just a matter of getting to where I wanted to go. Example: IKEA is easy to spot because they have a gigantic sign that is probably about 450ft tall and can be read from any direction. So I'm driving down this street towards the massive IKEA sign...the road starts curving, no problem...it'll curve back...I still have the sign in view but now its to the right...easy enough I just make a right turn and it will be back in front of me...I merge onto a highway with Mercedes' and BMW's driving, no flying passed me...the sign is now more at my six o'clock and now I'm going down an on ramp to the autobahn back towards the Center. So I just made a big loop and came back around and finally made it to IKEA...they were out of the doors. That happened several times...enough times in fact that I was actually able to designate parking lots in which to turn around in...that's actualy pretty important considering the truck I'm driving is about 14ft long. Anyway, it was fun. Since then I've been planning a trip to Berlin to go to some studios so we can get some ideas for ours...shhhh, don't tell them though.

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