adios portland

it is not often that i get to go somewhere these days. but i decided this year there is no way in hell i will be sitting around here on thanksgiving day. nooo way. nuh-uh! i am missing out watching babies grow up and with the old timers who knows how much longer some of these guys will be around. plus i got friends to see too.
so we are gonna hit the road and go back to our homelands.

4 am is not a kind time of day to the body that rises no earlier than 6 but these days you are lucky to get on a plane at all, much less when you want. and what the hell happened to the night bus going east out of memphis? now THAT is about my speed.