Most people who travel to Florida sleep at regular times. We decided to go iron man style and only sleep every other day. (Awake for 48 hours then sleep for 8 hours) So after we made the eighteen-hour drive to Orlando Florida from Kansas City we check into the hotel only for a few moments then immediately went to Universal Studios. After a complete day of driving being able to turn the corner and run off complete adrenaline the group was ready to crash and we were all asleep before midnight.
Universal Studios was an interesting experience, most of the rides and amusements are designed for a different target age group. The MIB, Back to the Future, Twister, and Terminator 2 rides were worth the trip but I am not sure they were worth the price tag. The real problem with amusement parks is that they are targeted at providing a family experience. I guess we could have gone to an adult theme park like Los Vegas but they do not have rides and roller coasters! That night we stopped off at the Sizzler to eat the dinner buffet it was a huge success the Sizzler people did not know what hit them none of us had eaten in at least twelve hours. I was the only one from the group who knew about the golden goodness of the Sizzler.
Some people leave such sheltered lives not experiencing every buffet known to the planet. Personally, I do not think I will leave this planet until they have a buffet on the moon or mars. Honestly, I will be one of the first people to sign up for all you can eat food on another planet, but until that time comes I think I will leave space travel to the all you can eat buffet challenged individuals at National Air and Space Association.
My roommate FAS the Sloth happens to work at a hotel the LaQuinta Inn & Suites who by the way thanked us for staying with them. FAS does work at the front desk of the hotel checking people in and out of the hotel; mind you not doing any real work of course. Managing to appear to be a competent employee, FAS earned us a free nights stay in Orlando Florida. It turned out to be a decent hotel and was close to just about everything we needed to go in the city.
Some congratulations go out to the University of Kansas for giving any student who was willing to drive to Florida a forty-five dollar ticket to the fourteenth annual Mazda Tangerine Bowl conveniently located in Orlando Florida. Being a Florida Citrus Sports Event (www.fcsbowls.com) I expected to see a good game in a nice stadium. Now I am from Kansas and we have Kaufman Stadium and Arrowhead, which are both infinitely nice than the stadium in Orlando. I could not believe that this bowl stadium still had bench seats and no major parking lot in fact this stadium is so poorly designed that it has a minor league baseball field built directly on the side of it covering up the best parking spots with outfield.
We were all so depressed after the game that we decided just to drive back to Kansas at one in the morning. The benefit of driving back early was being able to go to the Jack Daniel?s distillery tour located in Lynchburg, Tennessee. The tour was great it was way better than Ripley?s Believe it or not and it was free. Jack Daniels is the oldest registered distillery in the United States. Jack Daniel once said, ?Every day we make it, we?ll make it the best that we can.? The only real problem with the tour is that they show you everything but cannot sell you anything. For some strange reason Lynchburg county is dry and does not sell or serve alcohol.
That is the end of the story the rest of the drive home went well and I had a great night of rest before my parents called and told me that I had to go to Wichita! I told them no more driving for a while.

What a day to see Stoner Corry? The most important part of the story is that Stoner Corry had no voice. This was a wonderful experience to be able to hang out with one Mr. Andy ?Blue? Phelan watching the band E Double play at Jerry?s Bait Shop in downtown Lenexa without having to listen to a word of Stoner Corry?s rants. So Mr. Andy ?Blue? Phelan told me that it was E Double?s last show and that they would not be playing again because the base player was moving to Texas. I later found out that this was not true and that the band is staying together. Before the concert, I went to see the movie something has got to give and it was wonderful. Jack Nicholson at his best, the movie even had a scene with him in an elevator shinning style. I true enjoyed the movie, to say the least.
I am on my way to Orlando, Florida at this moment riding in a car as Ron Shaver is driving on the highway through Tennessee. Of course, the group decided to go bandit and drive straight to Florida from Kansas nonstop. My aunt and uncle went to the trouble of making sandwiches for the trip so that we would not have to stop we ended up with a cooler full of two cases of Coca-Cola and twenty ham sandwiches, fifteen peanut butter sandwiches, and of course a dozen ham salad sandwiches. If you are wondering why we ended up with so much ham on this trip, it was left over form an office party.
Hitting the open road after a semester of reading and writing is a truly rewarding feeling of half accomplishment and half relief. Now we are by no means a fellowship, but the six of us all pilled into an Eddie Bower Expedition. Fortunately, we only brought one bad a piece, but with the cooler and all the food we are cramped for space. I cannot believe that we made it through thirty gallons of gasoline and about twenty sandwiches before we made the first stop in Mt. Vernon Illinois. I am pleased to announce that we did not have to suffer through the hardship of spending money or stopping in the wasteland known as Missouri.
Something about being in a car trapped within a space that grows more uncomfortable with every hour that ticks by makes you stop and appreciate life. Now I am not upset with the journey, but I can say that I am upset with the confines of the passenger seat. Now if you know anything about road trips a twenty-four hour straight drive, covering 1283.05 miles, is nothing to joke about it takes a serious level of commitment from multiple drives that are willing to drive in several hundred mile shifts. Of course I was not allowed to drive during the day because I am a notoriously bad drive.
You might be wondering whose car we are driving to Florida? We are driving the monstrous vehicle of the FAS. (otherwise known as F. Adam Setter, the great white blur, shitter, sloth, big slothy, the stain, slutter, setra, or you might know him by some other name)
I just bought a Chattanooga Times Newspaper that is dated for Sunday the 21st I thought that the Kansas City Star rushed to get the paper to the stands. Old Chattanooga had the paper ready for sale at one in the morning and it had a lead story about the Belleview nuclear power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority. Of course, since the paper had a nuclear power plant on the cover of course I had to buy it. I am happy to report that the Chattanooga Times had no negative nuclear power bias. It is exciting to see the possibility that the nation is going to use a sustainable energy source instead of a consumptive one.