ericgooch

Ok, I gotta say this is the coolest thing in the world.

As I write this I am flying down the highway, a passenger on a trip from Elko, NV to Minden, NV to attend the wedding of Regina and her future husband. It’s about a 5 1/2 hour drive, and these road trips used to make me fairly crazy. Currently we’re about 20 miles West of Lovelock, and while there’s plenty of scenery, there’s not a tremendous amount of variation to said scenery. What’s a geek to do?

Enter laptop goodness. I have been meaning to get a laptop for probably 6 or 7 years now, but never took the plunge. When I was recently looking to replace my cell phone, I was checking out smart phones, PDA’s, and general communication gadgets, and my wife said “you’ve been talking about getting a laptop for years…why don’t you just get one?”

Since the purchase was now officially wife-sanctioned, who was I to argue?

So here I am, in the passenger seat of a Nissan Sentra, hurtling along at a speed that shall remain unmentioned (the Wife likes to drive fast) and typing away. The best part is that the power converter plugged into the cigarette lighter means I’m not even using battery juice.

Road trips just got a whole lot better.