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I like a good road trip....... I even sometimes secretly enjoy bad ones....... of a certain type........ when you need to get from A to B in a serious hurry when there are no flights etc........ it is a drag....... but actually it can be great...... but I really do hate trips that involve jams.

Yesterdays drive down from DC to Atlanta was a bit of a killer because it had to be completed in a closing time frame........ and I had not set out leaving myself enough time....... so I ended up needing to drive all night....... it was madness but I quite enjoyed it really........ I drank about 10 of those Red Bull Energy stay awake kind of drinks........ I've never drank that many before............ I had sort of lost any residual fear of them.......... I used to have a respectful slight trepidation of them.......... anyway...... by the time I was still driving at dawn (see yesterdays photograph) I suddenly realized my heart was racing and I was feeling very weird.......... I had just drunk way to many of these things .......... by the dawn..... the mega caffine and stimulants in those drinks were really kicking in.......... my heart was racing racing and I was feeling very weird....... I felt like a right idiot......... fancy drinking that many of those drinks........ especially while listening to wall to wall coverage of the cardiac arrest and subsequent death of Michael Jackson.

I seem to have survived it........ but on the way back I drank none of the mega stimulant 'No Fear' or 'Red Bull' type things and limited myself to only a couple of coffees.

The trip back is much more civilized......... as I was edging out of North Carolina into Virginia a sinking feeling came over me........ 'Not driving in Virginia!'........ Agggggghhhhhhh............ Suddenly ....... I had a thought ........... its a bit of a long way round and you still go in Virginia........ but you get less Virginia.......... and its much more scenic.......... if you roll up the US 13 Ocean Highway over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.......... it takes longer than the main road route up the i95 round the DC Beltway and on to MD on US 50 and the Bay Bridge........ but hey..... What the Hell? So I just deviated to the coast........ Matt was already ahead of me (as he woke up earier than me) in his own vehicle so he went the approved route and beat me by over 5 hours.

But I got to have a pile of road trip adventures........... here is a picture I made on the fishing pier that is weirdly in the middle of the amazing 21 mile Chesapeake Bridge Tunnel...........

This is Shawn Stack mega expert fisherman with a shark he and his buddies have just caught....... they are releasing the small shark from hook just before throwing him back.

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXX