difficult to find a comfortable position to sleep. For me, at least - Jamie was shaking the axles with his shores only moments after we switched spots.
Around hour 13, we stopped for breakfast in Raine, Louisiana at a wonderful Scottish restaurant for coffee and Egg McMuffins. The visit was pretty nondescript which was somewhat surprising because nearly every stop so far has had SOMETHING unique about it.
The highlight of our first stop at Arby's for example, was the odd sight of a fella with a classic shaved mohawk, giving his order to another man who was wearing what appeared to be pantyhose as a hairnet and had a full top-tier gold plated 'grill' that gleamed when he
smiled. And this was in the first hour of the trip.
Other notables were the aforementioned sign posted above the urinal at a rest stop, and a large red button inset into an exterior wall that offered a weather forecast if pushed, despite any visible way of conveying said information. I was too delirious at the time to
realize the potential hilarity of it, and sadly left the button without pressing it.
The final interesting spot so far was a gas station/casino in Louisiana. It featured a bathroom that might possibly have never been cleaned, slot machines that Jamie ceremoniously lost a buck in, and a convenience store that stocked seven different brands of pork rhinds, which is six more than I knew existed.
It's a different world down here for a bunch of New Yorkers, that's for sure. After breakfast, I took the helm for a few hours and got us past Houston, and now Jeff has taken over and I've returned to the hole to update all of you. In hour 17, we are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on this marathon ride.
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