Category: driving
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Cue the dueling banjos
Our GPS device is like HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey. First, you should know that she gives directions in a British accent. I’m totally serious. She sounds a little bit like Helen Mirren, if Helen Mirren were giving you driving directions while being AutoTuned. Her crisp diction and cold demeanor keep our driving focus […]
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Have Scion, Will Travel
I’m smack in the middle of a long roadtrip. This week I’m visiting family in Detroit and in a few days I’ll be back in DC. So far, I’ve put 1700 miles on my car. That’s almost as far as it was when I moved from Phoenix to DC. Beau and I drove overnight from […]
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Dumb Betty
I wanted to tell you a funny story from a few weeks back when Beau was here. We got some friends together and hopped in the Scion to visit Kings Dominion, just outside Richmond. I had initially looked up directions on Google and saw it would take, theoretically, two and a half hours (ugh). We […]