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In mid-August I got a text from my friend Franz Aliquo, asking if I was doing anything the next evening. I had some work to do, but he said that there was a seat open in his mini-van for Rental Car Rally, NYC to Paris! ( Maine) . Rental Car Rally is his project along with his partner, Steve Bryant, that combines a road trip with a scavenger hotels in vero beach florida hunt across state lines. I missed last year s rally to Montreal, so this year I made sure to move around all of my plans so I could attend!
We started hotels in vero beach florida in his apartment, where I helped pack. Rental Car Rally is described (by them, on their site) as Halloween on wheels. It is an overnight, backroads-mostly driving competition between crazily-festooned teams competing for cash prizes and a golden gas pump. It s ballerhouse tits-out crazytown. This includes the fact that contestants are given boxes of horrors such as jars of peanut butter, ketchup, mustard, flour, eggs and fireworks. Upon which, someone at the apartment decided it would be a fantastic idea to strap fireworks to the eggs for maximum destruction (and the rule of they can t be thrown at moving vehicles).
The idea of the rental car is that you re going to be punishing a vehicle through travel, decoration, and the inevitable destruction by peanut butter, eggs and shaving hotels in vero beach florida cream. You don t want to submit your own vehicle to this, so just rent one like a responsible adult.
Our first stop was Kiryas Joel . It s a Hasidic town in Orange hotels in vero beach florida County that strictly follows the Torah. The point was solely to find the sign and take a photo with it. We eventually took one with another team who eventually arrived (as we traveled with the creators, we did not need to hit every check point, so we skipped the first one, which was visiting the Gates of Hell, aka, where a lot of the Walking Dead was shot). The photo broke all the rules of the sign.
The trespassing was frowned upon by someone who was either a caretaker or just cranky neighbor who noticed our flashlights. Whoops. It was also the dead of night, so there wasn t a chance of taking any long exposure photos while running from a shotgun waving old man.
Being on the beach at sunrise is kind of my favourite thing ever. It reminds me of an old expedition I went on years ago, where I dragged two friends with me to see the sun rise over Montauk in the middle of February. hotels in vero beach florida It was a blisteringly cold walk from the train station to the lighthouse, but when the sun broke the horizon, everything is just perfect.
Also while walk through, hotels in vero beach florida I found some cactuses randomly growing. I never even knew you could grow cactuses in the Northeast. Also, there were these berry/radishes that I thought looked neat but wasn t allowed to eat. We were getting pretty hungry after all that walking.
When we all got back to our cars, they were entirely encrusted hotels in vero beach florida in egg, flour, peanut butter and shaving cream. We couldn t see through any of the windows. I ended up sacrificing a pair of octopus socks to the cause so we could scrub the windshield clean. After googling up a nearby hotels in vero beach florida car wash, we crossed our fingers to not get a (second) ticket from the cops before we reached it. The man at the car wash exclaimed that this is the worst case of egg I ve ever seen. Fantastic.
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At this point, we were rather delirious. It was about 4pm, we had been driving since 12am and had not slept at that point. We had one guy doing all the driving and if we pushed ourselves, we could catch the tail end of the hot air ballooning festival.
Yes! It was the annual hot air balloon festival! There were so many gorgeous and brightly coloured balloons floating through the sky when we drove through Paris. It was one of the most beautiful things I d seen in a while and additionally, I ve been crushing pretty hotels in vero beach florida hard on hot air balloons lately.
We got to the hotel and waited for everyone else to show up and check in for the final results. Since this was Official Business, I decided to wander off to the hot tub and relax. Hell yea. There was a party afterwards to award the winners of the rally.
We all filled up on delicious beers and regaled each other with tales of what happened along the way, comparing experiences and seeing who ran into the cops (everyone it seemed) and who got lost (many) and just how fucked their cars got (very). The winners received a golden gas pump. There was also a drinking contest where all three shots + the beer were consumed as quickly as possible. hotels in vero beach florida Fuck yea.
The carnival itself was pretty generic and dead. All the balloon rides required paying several hotels in vero beach florida hundreds of dollars and the only times were either starting at 7am or 5pm. Looks like we caught the return of the late balloons on our way in. Deciding that we had enough and that we still needed to get the fuck back home, we turned tail, grabbed some lobster rolls on our way out and hit the road.
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