I can move, move, move any Mountain....
Posted
Monday, August 11, 2008 2:25 PM
So as I was taking off up the hill on Friday, I remembered a motivational speaker named Ian Walker that I used to work with at the teen center when I was younger.. his whole deal was all about how we can't move mountains, so he would have you scream " MOUNT-AIN, GET- OUT - OF- MY- WAY!"...
And I as I pointed the Keri-mobile up I-70 and started climbing, that is exactly what I thought...
...and I did it... I'm not going to say I wasn't white knuckling it a little bit when we came out of the tunnel and started heading down the other side of the divide and it decided to kind of pour rain (it is kind of a steep grade, and it had to freaking rain right then? grrrr)... I did ok coming back - I was on my own, so I did stop in Georgetown to catch my breath...
I don't see why they need to put up signs like "Hey truckers, you're not down yet!! Are your breaks adjusted and cool? 12 more miles of steep-grade, winding curves ahead..." and "LOST YOUR BREAKS? STAY ON I-70, DO NOT EXIT!!"
Great, thanks... I feel like Pee Wee Herman in his movie - when he is driving Large Marge's big rig and the "curve this way" signs keep getting more and more ridiculous until the curves in the diagrams are overlapping and going in corkscrews, etc... it kind of only makes it worse...
But I did it, dammnit... I did it...
MOUNT-AIN! GET- OUT- OF- MY- WAY!