Road Trip, Part I

This took place back in the mid 1980s. My best friend and fellow skirt chaser, Jay, and I drove to Tampa. We left Va Beach to go visit his son for Christmas. The son was about 6 then, and his mother was a stripper.

We had every intention of being in Tampa, at the whore and her kid's house for Christmas morning. We didn't make it until the day after Christmas. Don't remember why we were so late leaving Va Beach, but I remember it was about 3pm on Christmas Day when we pulled off I-95 into Fayetville, NC. Not even half way, and we got a motel room there.

Oh, yeah, funny thing happened on I-95 in NC. Jay had to piss, and I wouldn't stop. I was driving a Ford van that had a sliding door on the side. I told him to climb in the back, crack the door open, and piss at 70 MPH. I'll never forget looking in my mirror and seeing a car loaded with a family on holiday, have to turn on their windshield wipers on a sunny day.

Anyway, back to Fayet Nam. We rode around for a while looking for somewhere to eat supper. Everything was closed for Christmas. We finally found a Chinese or Japanese place where they cooked the shit right at your table. We were their only customers, and they put on a hell of a show for us. The chef is still the best table chef I've ever seen. The people that ran the restaurant were great. They gave us some ivory chopsticks as Christmas presents.

After eating, and back then it was probably the first time in a couple of days, we went to see if there was any night life in Fayetville. There were a couple of places open. One joint had topless bartenders, and all they could sell was draft beer. Another place was a rock band club. That's where all the off duty strippers hang out. Probably still do. I remember hooking up with some rock slut with a weird stripper name. Some Indian shit, or something. Being in Fayetville, all the dudes in there were Army guys. So two long haired guys from out of town could hook up with no problem.

The next morning---I think---we headed on to Tampa.

to be continued............

My New Racing Column at SRM

And, I'm back. Haven't been on here in a while. Not that I've been too busy or anything. Just lazy, maybe a little depressed. Don't know why either. I'm still in Memphis. Planning on driving back to Charleston in the next couple of weeks. I've almost wrapped up my project here, but there are some add ons that I could hang around for.

I've been posting regularly at foxsportsblogs.com . My blog there is Copperhead Road, and my screen name is Hanahan. I put up a couple of NASCAR posts a week there. I have somewhat of a following there, and it's pretty fun to interact with the different readers. And they have a lot of readers at foxsports. Worldwide---Australia, New Zealand, England, Canada, Columbia, I've heard from all of them. I also have a sports blog at realsportsbloggers.com. My blog there is called The Strike Team, and my screen name is Mackey. Mainly just reposts the same blogs from Fox, although I do some just for them.

Which brings me to my latest news. I've been asked to do a couple of columns a week for sportsreviewmagazine.com. They're revamping the online mag next month and I'll be a part of it. A chance to work with some pros and maybe even make a little money down the road. SRM started as a glossy mag back in 1941. it's been bought out a couple of times, and went electronic in the early 2000s. They have several pro athletes, and sports related businessmen writing for them now. I'll be doing something tenatively titled, The SRM Motorsport Report. Focusing mainly on NASCAR, but as the name suggests, different types of racing from time to time also.