Panaca Bound!

(sunday night). It isn't very often that I get really excited for something. Something that makes it hard for me to sleep that night. This time around I texted Mike my new number, expecting nothing back. However five hours later, he replied and wanted to hang out with me. And we did by playing tennis for a good two hours and having lunch at Jimmy Johns. It was weird, that I was so excited. I only get that excited when I go and see my best friends. I am beginning to think that I like him. :)

The next night at work went by exceptionally slow. Until 10:15 anyway. Of course we got busy right before we closed at 10:30. It's enough to make me wonder, why do people wait for the last minute? And not just to come get food but just for anything in general. That is something I probably won't understand.

After a frustrating end to a slow night, I closed my eyes. Wednesday will be better, I thought. Waking up at 10:30 is the norm for me now days. I planned out setting out for Panaca around noon my time.

The drive down wasn't too bad. I only had to pass three or four people. Of those, one passed me. Taking the back highway there is the safest, but at the cost of it being a one-way. Passing people therefore is risky. I'm sure my friends could testify to that. There was a close call passing a semi-truck on our way to Alamo with another car coming in the passing lane.

All in all, it made my entire day spending time with those two. We had some new experiences, of which I can cross one off of my bucket list: riding the Sinclair dinosaur. :)  And the usual road trip was a bit unique with Melody's face paltered against my passenger window. ;)

I also got to spend some time in the spring over in Panaca after driving back from Alamo. I was amazed to see that something that cool was natural. There were all kinds of fish swimming by my feet. There were some that hit my feet. Apparently I was tasty.

After many good-byes, I left and eventually made it home around 9:30 my time. I say eventually because of the massive fire in New Harmony that added all kinds of traffic all the way through Enterprise. I was only stopped once so I could be let through to go back home. On the way I noticed smoke was clouding the evening sky, making it appear gray.

Driving back always makes me grip the steering wheel tighter than I should. When I shift my grip, I can feel the soreness around my cold, sweaty fingers. My quickened heart rate doesn't help either. The worst was all the semi-trucks going the opposite direction of me because it seemed like they were going to run over me. Luckily there were no bunnies in the road. Only the massive amount of bugs that were in my front end and my windshield.