Monday, December 13, 2010

Sightings

On my ride today along the Ajo Highway and up Sierrta Mountain Rd., I spotted the following items:
  • 10 Border Patrol vehicles
  • 2 Helicopters
  • 1 Fed Ex Van (which I suspect was housing the illegally imported fruit from California that the Border Patrol was most likely on the prowl for--maybe they have a more sophisticated operation than the checkpoints on the northern California border).
  • 1 pink beaded necklace
  • 1 Powerade bottle filled with urine
  • 1 Trap and Skeet Club of Tucson--where Olympic dreams come true (the sign said)
  • 1 Cindy Lou's II Cafe--(yes with the roman numerals)
I rode four hours tempo alone. My feet were hot. But to get through this ride I relied on my trusty ipod, which contained the following songs to keep me going:

  • "Home" Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
  • "Animal" Miike Snow
  • "Are you sure Hank done it this way?" Waylon Jennings
  • "We are the People" Empire of the Sun
  • "Good Morning" Dandy Warhols
  • "Take Ecstacy" !!! (chk chk chk)
  • "Love Me Girl" Yeasayer
  • "I Remember" Yeasayer
  • "The Commander Thinks Aloud" The Long Winters
  • "Fallin and Flyin" Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart)
  • "Not Afraid" Eminem
  • "Empire State of Mind" Jay-Z
  • "Breathe Me" Sia
Play a few times, mix with Pandora Helio Sequence, Outkast, and Gorillaz radio and you've got yourself a four hour mix!

I also make up stories about my "sightings." Whose necklace was that? What was REALLY in the Fed Ex truck? Why did one of the Border Patrol cars have a smashed in bumper? Trap and Skeet sounds like Bend and Snap from that Legally Blonde movie. Where is Cindy Lou's first Cafe or is she just Cindy Lou the second? I'd like to meet Cindy Lou the elder, the original.

How could I ever be bored of training?
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3 comments:

  1. Funny. Sounds like training in Tucson is interesting.
    Do you have an Aizona State SunDevils kit to wear while you're there? If not, you should find one.

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  2. i wonder why someone took time to actually pee into the powerade bottle vs on the side of the road? I wonder if the person who did this, was having a contest with his friends to see who could hit the most border patrol vehicles with home made urine bombs? when keeping focused swimming laps when I was growing up, I use to count my laps.. over and over... if you ever get bored of music.. just try counting (in a monotone voice in your head) each minute that passes, it really fixed my problem of getting bored.... I never forgot how many laps I was doing anyways..
    hope all is fun!

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  3. Peeing into a bottle is a trucker thing...can't stop to pee, gotta get the cargo on down the road!

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