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Thursday, July 07, 2005 Anatomy of a Spontaneous Road Trip, Part I Wednesday Night: My friend Jeremy and I haven't seen each other much over the last few months, so when he comes swing dancing in Ann Arbor (he's from Lansing) we plan to do something on the Fourth of July. Friday Night: While making plans that night, he mentions that he wants to go to Chicago over the weekend to take a look at an apartment that he's considering living in when he moves in August. My Friday and Saturday are totally packed, but I tell him that I'm free on Sunday and Monday--so we decide to take a road trip. Since we know lots of people in the Windy City, we decide to find someone we can stay with on those two nights. Saturday Night: Most of our friends are out of town or their houses are being renovated (i.e. its residents aren't even sleeping in their own rooms) and Jeremy's friend who was able to house us decides to take a spontaneous road trip of her own; we can stay with her on Monday (my friend Bryan offers his place as well), but that still leaves Sunday. I talk to Jan, a dancer who stayed at my house last year during the Ann Arbor Lindy Exchange, and he says he can host us as a last resort but he's studying all weekend. Sunday 1:00pm: Every dance scene has a message board online, and since we've already posted that we're going to be visiting and will be dancing on Sunday night, Jeremy decides it can't hurt to leave another message: oops... so the place we were going to stay fell through... Jan offered us his place but he's studying for the GRE this weekend so we'd rather not bug him. So yeah, I doubt anyone will actually read this in time... :) But if anyone out there reads this today and can give us a little floorspace tonight to unroll two sleeping bags that would be AWESOME -- give me a call on my cell (we're on our way to Chicago right now) xxx-xxx-xxxxA few minutes later, Jeremy's putting some of my stuff in the trunk of his car when he slams it shut... and realizes that he's just locked his keys into the trunk. ^ Top | 11:13 PM | | | 
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