DAY 1: June 5 2005
Severe scattered thunderstorms and tornadic activity forced Lavinius and Cooch to change their original flight plans - instead of arriving at Chicago Midway Airport by 6:35 p.m. via Southwest Airlines flight 709 (out of the Manchester, NH airport), they chose to take the 6:30 a.m. flight 1541 the following morning.
Overnight accomodations: The Tage Inn in Manchester, NH. With complimentary shuttle service to/fro the airport and the Manchester area, there really wasn't much of a decision to make regarding our overnight stay. Shuttle service was "gladly" rendered by Mallory (aka The Shuttle Bitch). I say "gladly" because the bitch had the sense of humor comparible to a bag of rocks - minus the good looks and charm...
We decided to venture out instead of stay couped up in the hotel - our mission was to find some high-quality grub (actually, we didn't care so much about the quality, we were fucking hungry and it was getting late). The receptionist at the Tage Inn suggested Billy's Pub, an apparent well-renkowned sports pub in the area, so Lavinius and I took off, escorted by The Shuttle Bitch.
Let's just say that Billy's Pub was in a shady neighborhood - some Wigga tried to climb an adjacent 3-story aparment complex Spiderman-style [read: scaling the apartment from the outside porches] with a cigarette in his mouth; apparently the cost of the cigarette was much larger than the likely surgery he'd need on his fractured skull, because he didn't want to leave the cigarette behind -- even if that meant he'd plunge to his death since one hand was too busy handling the burning butt instead of gripping the balconies with both hands... Two men on the third floor were drinking beer, encouraging Spiderman to climb upstairs from the outside, rather than use the staircase, which was directly in front of these clowns. Anyway, Spiderman made it without incident - and more importantly, his cigarette was still intact.
Inside Billy's Pub, Lavinius downed some chili and Cooch had a Bison burger - the grub was as good as advertised... Back to the hotel for us, though, because we had a long day ahead...
Day 1 was over. We had little more than 4 hours of sleep before our plane flew out the following day... It was a dolefully ominous beginning to a trip - nasty weather was projected in the Midwest region for the next 10 days...
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