A few thoughts from the road (or Duracell rabbit on Ecstasy)

This extended weekend (Saturday to Monday) was a very demanding weekend for me. While Saturday I was on a driving trip with my wife and a couple of best friends, and it was very pleasant, on Sunday I had a personal thing to take care, “thing” that took me 2 days and 800 Km (not in only one piece but in 3, however, very demanding) of driving with only 2.5 hours of sleep. I can tell you that there are parts of this road when all I remember is my GPS telling me to turn left or right, my radar detector telling me to slow down and loud music in my ears. By the way, these 2 gadgets really saved my ass a couple of times…

I have listened a lot of music while driving these 2 days, mostly rock and regarding a post of a few days ago I can tell you that the best music to listen when driving proved to be, after a lot of thinking, Michael Kiske and Gamma Ray’s “Time to Break Free”. On the last 60 km I only listened to this song over and over again, it kept me awake.

I had 3 Red Bulls, 2 of them one after an other, it was night and I was very tired. I reached a point where I was feeling kind like in a video game: the road was made of 2 white stripes, everything was black and I had no understanding of what “car” meant anymore…the car concept was replaced by the while lights coming to me or running away from me. On top of that add the Red Bulls and Gamma Ray playing over and over the same song very loud and you can get a pretty good impression of the situation… Looking back, after a good night sleep, I think I was kind of a Duracell rabbit on Ecstasy!

Also I found that Live and let die of GNR gives a great feeling when driving. Not the slow part, that sucks when speeding, but the high paced guitar parts. Man, those parts rock! They should make a full CD with that part and call it music for speeding.

And you know what? Europe does a very good job too, I guess due to the “riding” rhythm.

Also, I came back from this driving session with a lot of ideas in my head, to post here. The ideas came from listening all this music for a lot of hours. It is actually impossible to not think of a lot of things when not having too much to do…Hmm, could people with less on their heads be the most prolific bloggers? No offense, I guess you need time for all those ideas to come and put them on “paper”…

So, I guess that in the next days I will have some posts that will be the result of this trip (that is if I will still remember them, considering the state I was in)

PS: BMWs rule the road. I don’t have one but I would surely love to have one…

Here’s the song that kept me awake, put it on a CD about 20 times and drive on! Also take a couple of Red Bull cans. It helps.

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