6.22.2003
At 19:37 Catherine Thorpe writes:
Total trip mileage out and back: 5,712
Hapless Budget rental clerk: "Um, you're going to have to fill out an accident report for that windshield."
Little did he know he would unleash the wrath of a certain sleep-deprived and unbathed gal, still cranky over having spent two hours at the Golden Phoenix blackjack tables *just* to fight back to break-even ... "From the ashes a phoenix is born!" Yeahhhh not really.
(In honor of Miss Thea's departure stayed at Fitzgerald's -- nice room with a view of Virginia St. and the slowest elevators in all of creation. "First floor -- Lucky Lane and certified loose slots!!!")
Robbie fared a little better at craps, but not quite enough to cover a certain fine incurred on a certain stretch of Nebraska freeway -- 99 mph in a 75 zone. Low-slung dark-blue cruiser heading in the opposite direction swings across the grassy median and catches up real quick, pulls up alongside for a once-over before dropping in behind the Rodeo and putting on the flashers.
"It goes without saying that you need to take the speed way down," says the jovial trooper.
And indeed, Ro Bert takes the speed way down ... until he hits the state line.
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"Itinerary"
Ha ha ha -- riiiiiiight
June 9-10 at the fabulous Imperial Palace Hotel/Casino, Las Vegas
Note: Itinerary after this point subject to change when we win ... $4 MILLION!
June 11 at the Best Western Horizon in Grand Junction
Rationale: We must schedule to leave Vegas or we won't.
June 12-18 in the Heartland
June 18: Chicago! Cha!!!
Coolio
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