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Life On The Magic Bus
Chapter 9, Part 10: Across America At Random
Lucy & Flash do mayhem, again
Sasha has ideas
8/17/2014
“Okay, gang, our destination today is Lake Placid, New York. Along the way we have to do the videos, take several pictures, and eat lunch at a place called Oggies. But the real “fun” is that when we get to Lake Placid, we need to find a blue eyed alligator before we can call it a day.” Doc would have facepalmed, but he was holding a mug of tea with one hand and a donut in the other.
“If that capitalize on that movie, there might be a lot of alligators around.” Mary said.
Grace shook her head and then said, “If we need to find it before we get to end our day, we’d better get going. It’s a long drive.”
With that, the Bus got underway. The timetable for the day went like so.
5:30 am: Stopped in Homeworth, Ohio, for pix at the Cross Eyed Moose Event Center. No moose, visually impaired or otherwise, were sighted.
8:00 am: Stopped in Punxsutawney, PA, to do a video showing “at least 3 groundhog things”. There were no lack of groundhog things. T-shirts were purchased.
10:00 am: Stopped in Emporium, PA to eat at Oggies. Specifically to eat the chili, which Doc will go to his grave referring to as “a very bland soup trying and failing to have any resemblance to bad chili”.
12:30 pm: A lunch stop in Ithica, New York went horribly wrong. Lunch was fine, but upon leaving the diner, they encountered the annual “Ithica Pet Squirrel Parade”. Both dogs and the cat went instantly insane and went into Squirrel Search & Destroy mode.
Sasha was rounded up quickly, having chased a man named Herman Fetterman and his squirrel up a lamp post. Sadly, Lucy & Flash were much faster. They chased humans with squirrels, squirrels alone, and one woman wearing a squirrel hat. It took Doc, Spike & Mary 20 minutes to catch them, during which they caused 3 traffic accidents, two broken shop windows, and several incidences of soiled underwear. Everyone quickly got on the Bus, which a quick thinking Grace had made to look like a corvette towing a teardrop trailer.
Later, Doc would remark that maybe fucking Ithica ought to have a big damned neon sign saying “We walk around with squirrels on our shoulders.”
3:45 pm: A stop in Herkimer, New York, because the internet voters wanted a video of them singing about Herkimer.
5:30 pm: Having let the critters out of jail, Sasha runs off to the downstairs engineering area to have a chat with Joe, the Quantum Mechanic. By 6:30, still 45 minutes out from Lake Placid, she comes up to the living room to show off an invention.
“It’s a drone with facial recognition capabilities. We can send it ahead and it will locate all the alligator images in town! Then, we can just sort out the blue eyed one.”
She was roundly praised for her genius and the drone was launched. A couple of minutes later, Spike went on the Facebook page to say they would be in Lake Placid in about an hour.
Amazingly, or maybe predictably, there were not many alligator references in town. In fact, there were 6. One of those was what looked like an alligator riding around on a bicycle with a bunch of human geeks.
“AHA!,” Doc exclaimed, “We have found the tricksy geeks trying to be moving targets!”
7:49 pm: The bus pulls up right next to the geeks. Everyone greets everyone else and then Our Travelers are directed to one of the geek’s house, where a fine dinner and many beverages are enjoyed.
Later, back on the Bus, Doc let everyone know that they would be sleeping in until 9 am because it was only about 7.5 hours from here to Mt. Airy, Maryland, where all the Random Road Warriors would meet up. And there would be no stops for pictures or videos.
And there was much rejoicing.
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