So I just got back from Beantown the other day, and I was thinking about all kinds of different ideas for blog posts as I was traveling. It’s at least about 10 hours of driving both ways – so obviously a lot of quiet time and time to just sit with your own thoughts. Anyhow hopefully this week I’ll get back to blogging quite a bit – we’ll see how it goes.
I did want to write for a minute on what was the most surprising part of the trip for me. It was how quickly the hours flew by when listening to Satellite Radio. My buddy has an extremely nice, brand new Ford F150 and included when he bought it, was 3 months of Sirius radio service. I can honestly say that if I ever have to do a long road trip again – I will be begging for something like this. It made the hours FLY by.. we were in Portland (where we spend night #1) before we knew it.
What did we listen to?? Well.. there are tons of channels (obviously) to choose from – the ones that we listened to most were Howard Stern and “Raw Dog Comedy”.. although we did flip over to the Playboy channel for a few minutes to see what that was all about – it was actually pretty darn good and like I say, kept us entertained for the trip.. which in turn, made it seem extremely fast.
I installed my own XM radio satellite which was given to me as a gift in the Cobalt when I had it – but I actually found that it cut out all over town while I was driving to/from work and it really bugged me. Apparently Sirius doesn’t have this problem as they have satellites which are higher up and perhaps two of them I’ve heard? I have no idea. I don’t know if I’d pick one up on sale or not if it was to come around.. due to the monthly charges and such – but if I did a lot of traveling – it’d be a no brainer.
Raw Dog Comedy was on almost exclusively on the way home, and what was really great was that I wrote down some of the names that REALLY were funny so that I could look them up when I got home.
The following is one of them – Todd Barry – take a listen to this small clip from Letterman.
One of the other inventions which we used and were very glad we did (in Boston) was the GPS system! Honestly I can see road traveling getting a lot more popular with these two great in-car services. Even if you know where you’re going – it’s really nice to see how far left you have in your trip, how many hours approximately to get there, and perhaps you want to go somewhere off the beaten path.. getting lost = not an option.. very cool. Just noticed buy.com has one on for $98.99 and it’s a really great Garmin NuVi 255W as well.
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