- ice climbing (photos)
- christmas eve
- christmas day
- san antonio and christmas
- new year's eve
- jetblue shuttle
- From an email I wrote after the event -
When we got back to the airport last night (1/1/2008), the line for the taxis was really long so we decided to take the JetBlue shuttle bus instead. It drops us off just a mile from home and we can either get a cab or take the subway from there. We made it on the 10:30 pm shuttle and as we were leaving the airport on this major 3 lane highway (the Van Wyck) I saw 5 lug nuts glittering across the road. Moments later, the bus began to vibrate and both of our rear left wheels came off! One of them flew parallel to us, bouncing on the ground and proceeding high into the air, smashing down on the bumper then the roof of a little red car in the adjacent lane. It was so surreal. Everyone was fine, but it reminded me of something from those Final Destination movies.
We were stuck on the bus for about an hour in the middle lane of traffic waiting for some alternate form of transportation. Luckily, a flight attendant that was onboard the bus with us had a number for an emergency contact at JetBlue and they sent another bus to rescue us. It was an eventful night. ;)
I have a new Goal!!!! - Visit all of the top 10 wine regions in the world. And possibly discover one in Asia since they don't seem well represented.
Check out this map and click "top 10 wine regions" if it's not already selected.
2 comments:
Shrugs. I would settle for PIX of Xmas Eve!! ROWR!!!
And really want to go ice climbing again!
"I saw 5 lug nuts glittering across the road. Moments later, the bus began to vibrate and both of our rear left wheels came off! One of them flew parallel to us, bouncing on the ground and proceeding high into the air, smashing down on the bumper then the roof of a little red car in the adjacent lane. It was so surreal."
That does sound surreal! did it damage the red car at all? Was it neat to see? was it scary?
And for the wine regions - u should also check out West Jersey! So pretty and good wine too! Despite the cataclysmic end of my road trip, i want to re-do the trip with u - I think it would be a blast!
Val!,
I don't know if you subscribe to these, so I don't know if you get the follow-ups, but I'll imagine you do! :)
The wheel smashed in the top of the car, so yeah, it was definitely damaged. There were two men in it and they were both unscathed. They came back to get the driver's insurance info. Must be a nice drive back from the airport for him, hm?
It wasn't scary. I really wanted to get out of the bus and hail a taxi that was going the opposite direction - there were so many of them, but Justin didn't think it was a good idea. blah. It all ended up working out just fine anyway, I suppose.
OK - we can do the Jersey wine trail sometime. Love you Vallers! :)
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