Je suis TO MONTREAL!
Yes, yes, another whirlwind trip. Here is a timeline with a map!
To Montreal!
- 2:30pm - I leave Columbia University. Pandemonium ensues.
- 3:30pm - The Fung Wah bus departs. Thankfully, I am seated on it. Not so thankfully, it gets caught in the snow/rain, and travels at around walking speed for the next 6 hours.
- 9:30pm - The bus arrives at South Station. I take the infamous “Bran Van” back to Brandeis. At this point I have not urinated in approximately 8 hours.
- 12:30am - Ethan and I embark, dragging behind us the Blue Beast. It is snowing out and we recognize leaving in these conditions is a pretty stupid idea. But anyway, back to the story.
- 2:15am - With 10 miles remaining on the tank, we finally find a gas station. We are somewhere in the Middle of New Hampshire, and the attendant explains that there is no gas station open at this hour within 30 minutes in either direction. We fill up, buy beef jerkey, and continue onwards.
- 4:15am - We arrive at UVM. It is freezing out, and all of the people we were supposed to meet are already asleep. At some point, we go to sleep.
- 3:00pm (later that day) - To Montreal!
- 5:00pm - Bonjour. We arrive in Montreal.
I should speak about Montreal: I have been there before. It is a nice place, and French is a funny language. Good times were had by all, and these good times have been saved forever on Ethan’s picture gallery. All in all, I spent about 10 waking hours in the city, which is about half the time I spent getting there. Let’s just say that this trip was about the process, and the process was (mostly) a lot of fun.