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This week: Solo Road Trip in the Wake of Beryl Edited by: Fyn  
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It doesn’t matter how old you get, buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised nine year old was given $100 ~Unknown
People don’t take trips, trips take people ~John Steinbeck
absolutely!
When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story~ Steve Rushin
Especially after a bad storm!
Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take~ Angela N Blount
Truth! Lots of 'detour' signs! Red sections of road on the map. Mayhap I'll get 'lost' on this trip for a bit!!! :)
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Love me a road trip. Love going with my hubby, but that isn't always possible. Upsides to both options. I drive faster as I stay with the flow of traffic. He does 'cruise control at 2 mph over the limit.' Any road trip where he drives (and if we are together, he always drives) there will be at least one discussion about cruise control or traffic or somesuch. Never gets either of us anywhere, but it happens regardless. Then we laugh. Because it is a road trip after all and we are on the road again.
Happily, our 'road trip' playlist is full of 'us' favorites!! So we sing ourselves hoarse for twelve hours. (When we aren't arguing about how looong it is taking! (Are we there yet? No.)
This trip, though, I'm on my own. He has to work and it is what it is. One of my favorite authors, Bertrice Small, has a new book up on Audible. Not a 'new' new book, just new to Audible. Granted, I've read it hundreds of times since it came out in the 80s. I have several in paperback, it is on my Kindle and now I can listen and drive. Pretty geeked about that!
Driving from Southern Michigan to the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. I could probably drive it in my sleep by now. But then, there are the stretches where I won't be listening to 'The Kadin' and, instead, reveling in endless stretches of both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. I can fool myself into thinking it is the ocean. That whole 'can't see across it' really helps with that. Glorious sunsets too! Can't wait to get 'on the road again!'
That was written over the weekend in anticipation for my trip. Here's the follow up!
Hurricane Beryl has left her calling cards though. Even though she was only a bad storm with lots of wind and rain by the time she left Texas in her puddles, here, we have flooded rivers and streams, a washed-out bridge or three and trees still being cleared off major roads. And then a leftover storm scattered possible tornadoes sparking middle-of-the-night sirens. Oh. And no power. Got that back and then a squirrel got curious enough to fry itself and no more power. Or internet. Or cable.
Enough to deal with, right? No, let's add one more thing that sends the road trip right out the window. Just because!! My husband apparently pulled a muscle. Or pinched a nerve. Pain radiating down his left arm, in his jaw. Nope, no four-day road trip for me! He thinks I'm being silly. Maybe, but it is not happening!
The best laid plans are history. It's alright. No power, internet, cable --but managed to do some great writing today. Longhand. In a note book. Been a while since I've done that! Kind of liked it, actually. Can't write as fast as I can type. This made me slow down. More time to think. More time to argue with the muse who was not impressed with neat handwriting. (I DO need to be able to actually read it later, oh muse of mine!!) Still and all, it was a nice change.
At least we finally, at 5pm on Tuesday, got power back. Hubby, more or less one-handedly, is now trying to troubleshoot the air conditioner (which is hooked up to the furnace) because it is mid-80s here (both in and outside) and it is not working. He's pretty frustrated. Something or other keeps blowing a fuse in the furnace.
Down the road, we'll laugh about the road trip that wasn't. Just got to roll along when things get derailed! The edit will get finished. The word counts will even out and life will go on! And that, is really, all that is important!
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Mara ♣ McBain  says: Yayyyy!! I know your pain and your joy. Been there, done that, and have been saved by email. Best of luck on this WIP! I can't wait to read it. 
brom21  writes: I had a similar thing happen when I accidentally deleted all my phone contacts! And what made it worse was that it was not backed up on a cloud. I permanently lost touch with certain people. Thankfully, I had a few friends I had on Facebook. For some others I was able to contacts to get me back in touch with other contacts. Unfortunately, I had to say by bye to some friends forever. Which of course stinks badly. Anyway, I loved this newsletter. Thanks!
Cadie Laine - gobble, gobble comments: I like this newsletter. I too have lost some stories that I wrote in the aught aughts. I wish I'd have kept them. Now I save what I write in hard copy, on an online cloud, (google doc, one drive, etc.) and on an external drive. The complicated part is making sure that each of these at times gets updated with new stories. I made sure to have my daughter who writes to save all her writing too.
PCGuyIV  adds: "Clouds are marvelous but they run out of sky."
Agreed! If you don't have it in your possession, you don't really have it. This is exactly why I keep important stuff copied on multiple thumb drives and rarely store it on the cloud. It's also why I still buy real books and physical media for things like movies, video games, and music rather than relying solely on streaming and other web-based options.
Case in point: I had my current project stored on a cloud storage service that shall remain nameless, and thanks to an error on one of the systems I accessed it from, it ended up getting corrupted. When I tried to correct the issue from my main computer, rather than reverting back to what was stored locally on my main computer, it overwrote that system and destroyed months of work. Fortunately, I had a relatively recent backup on a thumb drive and was able to restore it. Due to that issue, I am using only a thumb drive that I can carry with me and another that I use for regular backups as soon as I can get on my main system.
Sumojo  comments: Oh your sad tale of loss broke my heart. As you say only another writer could possibly understand the horror of losing hours of blood sweat and tears.
I’m so pleased you found at least some of it.
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