time i spent some time alone

I just got home.  Astoria home.  I was upstate this weekend.  I spent some time in Oswego, my old hometown and in Trumansburg, my soon to be stomping ground and Rochester, what could be my future home.  Christopher and I did a whirlwind driving tour of all things upstate in about 60 hours.  The thing about a road trip with Christopher, or so I found out, is that the radio is not utilized.  We don’t listen to music.  This is fine, as we gab.  I rarely have trouble finding something to flap my gums about and Christopher and I, are a good pair for that.  He’s one of my better audiences as he finds me massively hilarious and he is one of the smarter people I’ve ever met so he keeps me informed, up to date and educated and I keep him laughing so hard he actually squirms in his seat.  We drove through my home town and I pointed out all the places I went to school, made out in, had sex at, worked at, skipped rocks at, hung out at and watched skateboarders, you know, the usual.  We drove to a beautifully romantic and genuine wedding.  We drove to a proper Memorial Day Bar-B-Que.  We drove up and down Rte 104, a few times.  We drove to Ontario Orchards.  We drove to my parents’ house twice.  We drove to Harriet Tubman’s house.  We drove to Romulus and I introduced him to my high school boyfriend Anthony.  We drove to Trumansburg to see where I’m going to be living.  It was closed.  Trumansburg.  Like, for real.  Just the coffee shop was open.  So we drove to Taughannock Falls.  We drove to Ithaca and then we drove to the Delaware Water Gap.  We drove to Jersey and then we crossed the George Washington Bridge.  We had been quiet for a while at this point.  It was dark, we had been in the car for over 9 hours.  I turned on the radio as soon as we got up to the EZ Pass and the traffic started to move again.  REM’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it” came on almost at the beginning.  Anyone who knows me knows I fucking hate REM but I gotta say that on one of the last 2 drives back to what I will know as MY HOME in Astoria hearing that song and having the traffic be all fast and crazy and me yelling out the known quotables “OFFER ME SOLUTIONS OFFER ME ALTERNATIVES AND I DECLINE” and Christopher not knowing them and laughing at me was pretty perfect.  Pretty perfect indeed.