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stux weekender march 22 1997 p11 best part of leaving the country is returning home first there was 2001 a space odyssey and finally all these years later came march break 1997 an interstate odyssey our decision to load up the car grab a caa tviptik and point er south to florida for the annual prespring recess stemmed from the same kind of sea sonal desperation that once caused pop songster jimmy buffet to sing about shooting six holes in his freezer during a severe case of the winter blahs i strapped the kids into their seats picked up my wife from school and headed for the 401 we were immedi ately swallowed up by a traffic jam caused by the daily gta evening exo dus from work along with a stalled dump truck just west of toronto driving through snow squalls build ing winds and steadily dropping tem peratures we finally made the michi gan border after a wrong turn we hooked onto i- 75 and proceeded to eat up the miles until around 2 am when we were forced to come to an almost complete halt for a half hour or so somewhere in ohio as a police escort accompanied a couple of huge construction vehicles to a highway repair location the wildly flashing lights on the cruiser roof woke the kids from a less- thandeep sleep in the back seat ren dering them less than cheery continuing to drive through the night we eventually got to watch the sun come up in all its splendor in ten nessee a few hours later however we had managed to hit atlanta ga just in time to crawl through the morning rush hour we gave up and stopped for a body and soul restoring breakfast at one of those franchised buffet restau- bankruptcy why face it alone caumurtaykideckl ttustkbumjttuftor personal business bankruptcies personal proposals 4u97i43m 27 mm st nuuvtwi 24qmmsll ww 7577515 2425efaftnavtj omuhm h5s71m4 m5tsmu 30whlhtagl 795 7214m 93mfannu3 free initial consultation domenic ladies 81 mens custom tailor serving the community over 20 years mens ladies made-to- measure suits from 495j includes gst rants that feature the type of calo rie and fat loaded offerings billed as classic american food we limped into st petersburg fla around 6 pm just in time to watch the sun set majestically over the gulf of mexico we spent the first few days recovering from our nonstop 26- hour highway ordeal then pro ceeded to soak up the unseason ably hot sunshine of the highway like st pete beach for the rest of the week having decided to take the scenic route for the return trip home we stopped two nights at hotels to enable the kids to get a full and proper sleep plodding through the carolinas and the mountains of the vir ginias then on into pennsylvania and western new york we saw full blown spring gradually turn back into the gray cold winter we had left behind the week before all went well until we checked into a hotel at morgantown west virginia after retiring early we were abruptly and rudely awak ened just before 1 am by a gang of rowdy young people checking into the rooms on either side of us a blind reach for the phone beside the bed eventually led to a call to the front desk to lodge an irate complaint about the shout ing marching and loud music penetrating the paper thin hotel walls when ninemonthold griffin awakened with his usual drawn out predawn howl some five hours later we just lay there and smiled a few toilet flushes along with a little early morning tv and griffins energetic drumming on a hard cooler lid complete our revenge we began the last leg of the journey having our pockets picked clean by the odious toll booths in that grubbiest of states new york we finally arrived home only to find the driveway blocked solid from the snow that fell in our absence from where 1 live bruce stapley i parked in front of the house and shoveled a path to the door so we could at least gain entrance as i set about clearing the hard packed icy covering from the dri veway i found myself clicking my heels and repeating dryly theres no place like home i i 1 i i i e e e b i fl 24 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