Road trips are the best!

Best what...? Haven't decided yet, but they're definitely the best. Took a trip down to the LA area this last weekend. Left at about 9 pm Thursday night and drove overnight. The best part of these drives isn't even the solid 6-7 hour block of awesome musics, although that's a huge plus. My favorite thing about long overnight drives would be the random thought wanderings. Recorded some of them on my phone as I drove (yay smarter-than-me-phone-that-does-this!).

This will probably only be amusing to me, but that's okay.

"Buttonwillow Mckittrick? Seriously? Hats off to whoever named that street."
"Hmmm.... I wonder how many shiny reflecty road bumps there are between Sacramento and LA. Is it more than dashed lines?"
"Oooooh it's the song that sounds like Ireland! If I was driving in Ireland, I bet I'd do it more like this." *demonstrates*
"Crow's Landing? OMG I need to stop there on the way home and leave some shinny bits and baubles under the exit sign!" Note: I did. No word from The Crow on whether or not they've been collected.
"Alan Jackson." Yes, I have a note to self that just says Alan Jackson. It was profound, I'm sure. No, I'm not going to explain. Yes, I love you too.
"If skipping is how your feet smile, what then, is running?"

Then... there were the stars. ^___^ As I got out of the city, into the dark spaces between where anything can happen and the sky itself is full of whimsy and skipping, I started noticing the stars more and more. This shouldn't come as a surprise, as my mind's always been half in the sky. After about five minutes of trying to drive while ogling the sky, I decided that this was not, in fact, the best idea ever. Surprise surprise, eh? ^-^'' So I exited at a random middle-of-nowhere spot, drove a little bit from the freeway and pulled off into the dirt to get out and stargaze. What followed can only be described as several minutes of bliss. No lights, no people, just me and the sky. I danced around, full of joy and awe and peace, in the middle of nowhere. Then... I realized that I was alone on a deserted country road, in the middle of the night, staring at the sky and got back into my car posthaste. Damn you, unsafe world, for raining on my parade! Still, immensely satisfying. Almost as recharging as spending a day in snowy forest. <3