Two dispatches from the Houston move
March 14th, 2003
100 points to Erin, who’s spotted the trip’s first dead armadillo.
Maybe this should be a new travel game, says Erin. Points are awarded
as follows, to any applicable traveling companions:
| Common roadkill spotted (possum, skunk, squirrel, “unrecognizable”) | 50 |
| Uncommon (armadillo, deer) | x2 = 100 |
| Super-rare (mountain lion) | x5 = 500 |
| If you created the roadkill | x(-2) (net: negative roadkill points) |
| Hitchhiker | 100 |
| Picked up hitchhiker | -100 |
| Hitchhiker roadkill (roadkill creation penalty applies, but this is the least of your worries) | x10 = 1000 |
| Minute of driving time | 1 |
| Minute spent sleeping in car | -1 |
| If you were driving at the time (per min.) | -5 |
| Unusual sights (must be first spotter; hot air balloons, crop dusters; The Thing?) | by consensus |
| Succesful completion of the otherwise-lame License Plate Game | 1000 |
[It is extremely tedious to edit HTML tables on a Palm. -ed.]
in Flatonia, halfway between San Antonio and Houston
The rocky central Texas hill country has given way to grassy plains
and forest that remind Erin of the midwest. We’ve probably got an hour
and a half until Sugar Land, and then we can rest.
And do it all again in a month.