While other travelers to eastern Europe use the pedestrian modes of transportation found on websites like Kayak, Expedia, Cheaptickets, and/or Travelocity, our trip to 15th centuryTransylvania called for something a bit more specialized. After a ridiculous amount of time spent researching our options on Craigslist and Purplewave, we narrowed our choices to the following...
My personal choice was the PaddleBoat300-0 BC. I especially liked the advertising literature:
Although it was the cheapest option, we felt that we may never get to the 1400's before the summer was over. They only guaranteed accuracy to 1800's. (Please don't bother making a comment talking about, "It is a time machine, you could go anywhere you want." Needless to say we are heroes that understand time travel and you are not. You don't have the patience or the mental capacity to understand what we are dealing with.)
Our second option, Christine's favorite, was the TimeSled.
Maybe it is her Norwegian or Coloradoan background. I couldn't handle it though and it is obviously not a two-seater. It may have been a scarring event that happened with a Santa at the local Dillons and a tube of toothpaste, but I won't go into it.
We were, however, lucky enough to find something we could both agree on. Made the year I was born, reminders of run-ins with manure trucks, and finally the best doors anyone could ever dream of. May I also add, there are two seats, cup holders, and newly added GPS system.
Before launch the Delorean had to be packed. Because we were never able to reach Vlad via Ouija board to reserve a room in his castle, our time machine will double as a kind of early 80s RV. For the next month or so Sturges and I will live out of the time machine; we will sleep in her bucket seats, wash in her vanity mirrors and live off the dew we collect from the condensation left on her aerodynamic hood in the mornings (and some people think hostels are bohemian, HA! Oh, and Sturge says that's what she said). I left Christine in charge of the backpacks; the Delorean was my job. I shoved some toiletries into the seat pockets and threw some pillows and sleeping bags into the trunk...more spacious than you might think...struggled with the flux capacitor and set the thingy that looks like a digital clock to 1450 and prayed for enough runway to reach 85MPH and that I had remembered the movie right.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
To Capture the Castle! And try not to get thrown off...
Whelp, we're on our way. Our destination: 15th century Romania and a little place called Transylvania. Our goal: discover the 'real' Dracula, (he can't be that bad, right?) In our backpacks; the essentials and everything we learned from years of vampire movies and Ann Rice novels, (or two and a half viewings of Interview With the Vampire. I can't be bothered to read...I'm not a LOSER!):
1) Stakes for killing Dracula just in case he is that bad
2) Garlic for warding off Dracula
3) Garlic for bland foreign food
4) crucifix, (thanks to Ryan's Catholic upbringing!)
5) Holy Water, (again Thanks to Ryan's Catholic upbringing)
6) An abridged version of Bram Stoker's Dracula on tape
7) Coppola's '92 film Dracula, (I don't read remember?)
8) Portable DVD player and one of those strange European plug-in converters
9) Laptop for por...er posting to this blog
10) Room for souvenirs!!
Note: No food or drink will be necessary as I have taken the Bear Grylls' Man v Wild quiz and received a 75% and will act as our historian and survivalist.
Here we go; off to discover the truth. We will stop at nothing. We will face hardship and tribulation. We will face danger. Don't worry about us though; we have each other. We have our hours of preparation and experience. We have cell phones and credit cards. Just remember one thing, many of you will call us heroes and I believe I speak for Ryan and myself when I say...we are.
1) Stakes for killing Dracula just in case he is that bad
2) Garlic for warding off Dracula
3) Garlic for bland foreign food
4) crucifix, (thanks to Ryan's Catholic upbringing!)
5) Holy Water, (again Thanks to Ryan's Catholic upbringing)
6) An abridged version of Bram Stoker's Dracula on tape
7) Coppola's '92 film Dracula, (I don't read remember?)
8) Portable DVD player and one of those strange European plug-in converters
9) Laptop for por...er posting to this blog
10) Room for souvenirs!!
Note: No food or drink will be necessary as I have taken the Bear Grylls' Man v Wild quiz and received a 75% and will act as our historian and survivalist.
Here we go; off to discover the truth. We will stop at nothing. We will face hardship and tribulation. We will face danger. Don't worry about us though; we have each other. We have our hours of preparation and experience. We have cell phones and credit cards. Just remember one thing, many of you will call us heroes and I believe I speak for Ryan and myself when I say...we are.
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