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The Price of Gas, and Delta Airlines.

Now this Friday I planned to go and visit my special someone up in Lindsay, Ontario. It's a sixhundred mile drive from New York City, and I've done it quite a few times now.

Heck, roadtrips are an annual thing for me. Mostly I take a friend across country, in '06 I brought a friend along with me from New York to Los Angeles, and back. In six weeks. In a 2-seater. A rotten Pontiac Firebird TransAM that burned down with a ****ed clutch and a jammed accelerator not two months after the road trip.

In '07 I took my very obese friend(Yeah, I have to note that) in my then-new shortcab pick up truck, to Detroit.

This time I wanted to drive to my special someone who's currently at Flemming College in Ontario, Canada. Seeing as she's all alone, and to say the least - Depressed; I promised I would hop by as soon as time would be right.

Now I promised you guys a video blog, and I've gotten myself a camcorder, and taped the thing stuck to my rearview mirror, and made damn sure it would record, so I "borrowed" my friends' laptop so it would record directly to the laptop.

All in all, I haven't been paying attention to the gas prices. I don't use my own car that often, and when I gas up - I usually just pay while paying more attention to the free candaayhh rather than the big sign outside reading "Unleaded 3.98$". Hell, most of the time I'm filling up gas with the UPS van - The cost's on UPS anyway.

But, when I pulled onto the Texaco I always gas up at - I saw "Unleaded 4.07$". I heard alot of whining about on CNN lately about the gas price reaching the four bucks a gallon. Them bastards could've told me it was already PAST the four bucks a gallon! My car does 15 miles to a gallon. Which is for a heavyweight Chevrolet pick up truck - Pretty damn good.

I'd be weighing 700 dollars less by the time I reach Highway 403, on the New York-Ontario border.

So, traditionally - Me and my ways of life. That means; To be ignorant and quick I booked a ticket from JFK to Pierce International in Toronto. 67 miles from Lindsay.

Laura, that's her name. She's doesn't own a car, doesn't trust herself driving, and all that kind of blabber - I've got no ride from Toronto to Lindsay. Hell, for the insane price that my ticket costed I expected more than "unlimited insurance". For instance, a decently priced rental car.

Better yet - If someone from Toronto can explain me why the hell the Rental Agency's shut down, I'd appericate that.

For some reason my flight goes from New York, to Cincinnati, to Denver, to Toronto. I gotta wait from 11AM, to 5PM at Cincinnati. Then I gotta wait from 7PM to 10PM at Denver and then I'll be finally in Toronto. I don't know what happened to the one-way-to-your-destination stuff; But hell. I'll live with it. It's cheaper than going by car.

Basicly, I gotta sit around half a day for a four hour flight.

So I figured. I'd rip my camera from the car again. Take it with me, and might as well do some talking at a lifeless camera while I'm wasting life away at Ohio and Colorado. Might aswell visit Cin-City and the Rockies.

All in all, prices of gasoline are skyrocketing, Delta Airlines blows harder than a 900 megawatt leafblower, and I'm going to do a video blog while wandering around two cities, wait, three cities I have never been in my life before.

It's that I'm a man who goes after made promises; Otherwise I'd never do this.

So, next weekend(not this friday), I'll be gone 'till Monday. To visit Canada's only Green-caring College Town, and video tape my own buttugly face while wandering through America's Most Boring Cities.

... Why couldn't my flight be directed to Las Vegas or Atlantic City? You capitalist bastards at Delta!

Tough, you'd still get the video blog.