[Silly Little Cars] My new Interceptor...

[Jen Freeman]

Fucking awesome!!! Glad you made it back to SF safely. Viva la  
Interceptor!!!!!

Jen Freeman
Freestyle Productions
t 415-205-1362
f 415-441-1372

Sent from my wireless thingamajig...

On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:25 PM, Alec Bennett <wrybread at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well ok, as we sip margaritas looking over the bay in Tiberon, a  
> quick update:
>
> Lots and lots of backroads since we left the flat Central Valley.  
> We'll take pretty much any road as long as its brown or grey on our  
> map, we don't mind big looping out of the way routes as long as they  
> *generally* make southward progress and don't violate our cardinal  
> rule, which is Thou Shalt Not Backtrack. We're willing to do a  
> shocking amount of driving to avoid even the slightest amount of  
> backtracking.
>
> In the last few days we've done yoga at Harbin Hotsprings, drank  
> wine in Napa Valley (served by a somalier!), gotten ridiculously  
> drunk at the Russian River Brewery, eaten oysters at Tomales Bay,  
> eaten cheese in Point Reyes while looking at cows, and on the off  
> chance we needed more style points we even ate Cowgirl Creamery's  
> Mt. Tam cheese on top of Mt. Tam. We tried to smoke a joint in  
> Bolinas but didn't have the heart to beg for it.
>
> Our only encounter with the police was in the redwoods above  
> Bolinas. We'd just finished a pee break and a police jeep came out  
> of nowhere, missing a glimpse of Maxime's bare butt by like 10  
> seconds. The poor guy. He rolled down his window and called me over  
> and said "what the hell is that thing?" (meaning my car, not  
> Maxime's butt). I'm used to the question at this point so gave him  
> my spiel about it being a "rehabilitated metermaid buggy" that we'd  
> driven from Mt. Shasta and then we were all best friends. One funny  
> note: when he asked how much it cost I said "34" and didn't realize  
> until a good few minutes later that he'd been thinking I paid  
> $34,000 for my silly little car. When he realized it was $3400 he no  
> longer thought I was insane and we may have some off-duty police  
> driving around in Cushmans soon.
>
> We've now driven far enough that when we tell people what we're  
> doing their eyes light up and we get the VIP treatment wherever we  
> go. Turns out a roadtrip with a gimmick is a great way to meet  
> people. So after the bartender at Russian River Brewery (my vote for  
> best brewery in America) sees our cellphone pics, our glasses are  
> never empty and we're getting a guided tour of all their spectacular  
> Belgian style beers. Without going into too much detail I'll just  
> say that a bottomless glass of their Consecration Sour Ale with its  
> 10% alcohol can definitely get you into some trouble... And when we  
> stop at the sole proprietor type thriftshops or antique shops  
> everything gets really cheap once they see R2D2 and hear our goofy  
> stories. Seriously, I bet you could drive one of these things across  
> the country and never have to stay in a hotel if you didn't want to.
>
> Over the 500 or so backroad miles of our trip we've been getting  
> between 28 and 40 mpg, I guess depending on how heavy my led foot  
> gets. I do love hearing that engine growl through its custom chrome  
> tipped exhaust system... And today was absolutely pouring rain but  
> we stayed dry and even warm. Really the biggest source of wear  
> during this trip has been to our butts, which have been sharing a  
> narrow seat all this time, and my right knee is a bit sore from the  
> weird angle it has to bend for my foot to reach the gas pedal. But  
> R2 is a champ, about the worst I could say about him is his  
> defroster doesn't work very well, but I'm sure all the stuff we pile  
> onto his dashboard doesn't help. And he even has an "intermittent"  
> setting on his windshield wiper! I haven't had a car with that  
> feature since the last millenium.
>
> Attached are a few cellphone pics, you can get the general idea of  
> what you're looking at from the filenames.
>
> Well I've gotten good and liquored up so the drive over the Golden  
> Gate Bridge at night in a gusty rainstorm should be *easy*.
>
> ps- couldn't send the email from the restaurant so you get a  
> postscript: the bridge was insanely windy but no problem, the best  
> part being when we went through the tollbooth and the lady asked "is  
> that thing legal to drive on the highway?" "Yeah, pretty much".
>
> Now I'll sit back and enjoy my status of momentarily winning the  
> Silly Little Car Derby at least until Raz posts pictures of the  
> Cushman stretch limo van he just bought...
>
>
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