The Friday Fling Hits The Road!
Friday Fling #139 July 29th 2011
When it gets hot and bothersome, when the dog days of summer get both you and your dog down, if you like to travel and get some vacation time, it could be time for a…ROAD TRIP!
Impromptu summer vacation trips can be some of the most fun and memorable. See new sights, meet new people, get into new kinds of trouble!
So Michelle and I thought this might be a good time to write about them! Generic, past or imagined!
Like a freeform road trip, we’re gonna let you loose this week with no format suggested – just drive where your muse wants to take you! But if possible, try something new!
This week the Friday Fling takes a poetic road trip!
Be sure to save time to read and comment spontaneously on your fellow Pals’ meanderings. Then go and enjoy the weekend…maybe…take a…you know what?
Fickle Finger of Fate Award for July 22nd 2011
Congratulations Rebel!
Welcome everyone to another Friday Fling! This week Michelle and I are taking a poetic Road Trip and hope you can come along and write with us! Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, start your muses!
This is a very memorable road trip at the spur of the moment about 15 years ago I went on where we took our good old time driving through the Blue Ridge parkway on down to the Smokies in Asheville and Gatlinburg. The views were absolutely gorgeous and breathtaking. I love the mountains besides the beach. A must place to go again.
This is by my friend Sonnets (Lori) over at Myboomerplace.
AAA Bumpin Road Trip ~
Alas You Ask ??? Yes Ace !!!
Bump Took AAA Road Trip Once…
Butt Felll Riiight On His Face !!!
Got Back Up & Felll Again…
Got Road Rash On His Elbows & Ass !!!
Splat Watta Mess…
Wit Myyy Best Friend Bess Bumps AAA Basketcase !!!
Waaat Eber Da Case !!!
Watched Da Movie Tooo !!!
Had Meee Tooo Da End Stuck Like Glue ~
Bump-N-Bess Gooo On Trips Moist Alda Time ~
Burnin Up Da Road & Gas Beeen Alll Around ~
Gettin Lost ??? Neber Knot !!!
Just AAA Bump Inda Road ???
Dustin & Pickin Ourselves Up
Off Pavement & Off Da Ground !!!
As Bess Isss AAA Ravin !!! III Gots Tooo Peee !!!
Thru Hot Summer Nights !!!
& Winter Blizzards Out Inda Cold !!!
Sheee’s Stand Up Gal & Bumps AAA Squatter !!!
Sometimes Hoppin AAA Plane & AAA Train !!!
Like Weee Otter !!!
North South & East West Bound !!!
Countin Road Signs Like Lemmeee Seeee ???
U.S 33 & I69 ~ Are Weee Lost ???
Nooo Bumps Just Goin Blind !!!
III Ate When Everyting Blurrs !!!
Specially Da Road Markers
& When Mine & Your Panties Doth Bind !!!
Darned Wedgie !!! Gooo BaCK Tooo Sleeep !!!
Its OOO’k Doki Hunny Git You Sum Zzzzzzzzzzz’s !!!
Bumps Got Dis Chit Under Control !!!
Screeeech !!! III Just Hit AAA Pothole !!!
BUMP ??? Whaaat ???
Wake Up Your Runnin off Da Road !!!
Got Sometin Tooo Saaay Bess ???
YES !!! You Went Da Wrong Waaay !!!
Bess Beee Stilll !!! Gimmeee AAA Break !!!
Stop !!! Ask For Directions !!!
Bump Sez Nooo Waaay !!! Nut Meee !!!
Nut Inda Bronx Or Brooklyn Or Inda Queeens !!!
Did Dat Sign Saaay Detroit ???
What Did Dat Last Sign Mean ???
Where Iss Da Exit Tooo 80E ???
95 North & South Alooong Da East Coast !!!
In Middle of Winters & On AAA July Roast ~
III Know Meee Waaay Around !!!! Dagnabit !!!
As III’m Da Toad & Host Wit Da Most !!! Ribbit !!!
Virginia Beach Tooo Niles Michigan !!!
Back Where Weee Started & Where Weee Did Begin ???
How’d Dat Appen ??? Scratch Scratch !!!
III’ve Been Here Before ??? Seeen Dis Place 3times Again Before ???
New York Tooo Boston Back Tooo New Jersey !!!
Gettin Out Tooo Streeech Caaant Feeel Meee Ass or Meee Kneee’s !!!
Pleaz Bump ??? Ask For AAA Map ???
Sum Directional Waaay !!!
Georgia Florida & Kentucky ??? Now Tennessee !!!
Stilll Lookin For C.T ???
W.Va Over Appalachians Illinois ??? Where Da Helll’s Abili ???
II’ma Stop Siingin Tooo Da Radidio !!! Byyy Waay of Lima Ohio !!!
They Forgot Da Greeen Peas ??? Where Tooo Next Mr Becks !!!
Weee Curtsey & Coast !!! 80E Tooo Indiana Weee’re Bound !!!
Ended Up In Thru Pennsylvania In Clintonville !!!
Wide Eyed Weee Made Nut AAA Sound ???
Drove Riight On Thru As Dat Place GAV Us Such AAA Chilll !!!
Brrrr Talk About Yer Wrong Turn !!! Limpin It Tooo Da Next Town !!!
Filll It Up Dis Time Bump !!! Dat Last Place Was Hellbent & Helll Hound !!!
Beeen Tooo Lil Rock Arkansas Arizonia & Vegas Tooo !!!
Sum Places Weee Just Drove Straight Thru !!!
Time Tooo Take AAA Break !!! Get out AAA Stretch & AAA Yaaawn ???
Poppin AAA Squat Onda Oval Lawn !!! Down In D.C !!!
Chased Off Byyy Security !!!
Beeen Onda Road For Waaay Tooo Looong !!!
Sense Of Direction & Minds Alll Gone !!!
Ass Meee Backs Alll Cramped & Backside Isss Wet Fulll of Sweat ???
Backs Against Da Walll !!! Nooo One Can III Calll !!!
Bump ??? Whaaat ??? Are Weee There Yet ??? Yeees Dear !!!
You Bet !!! Wee’ve Been Dare & Done Dat !!!
As Weee’ve Beeen Everywhere !!!
Clear Out Tooo Da Mid-West !!! Up & Down Da East Coast !!!
Dares Nooo Place Here & There & Nooo Place Like Home !!!
Bumps Road Tired Caaant Falll Asleeep !!!
Batterys Dead Got Nooo CellPhone ???
Besss Isss Snorin Sheee’s Sooo Quite
Look At Her Isnt Sheee Sweeet ???
Lost Again ??? Dont Got da Heart !!!
Caaant Wake Her or Make AAA Peeep ???
As III Willl Follow This Semi Tooo Myyy Destination III Seeek !!!
Alas & Buy An Atlas Down Da Road On Da Next Side Streeet !!!
BUMP !!! DONT EVEN TINK ABOUT NUT STOPPIN !!!
STOP PUSHIN DA PEDDLE TOOO DA METAL !!! AS DA MIND & STOPSIGNS BEEEN BLOWN !!!
SLOW DOWN !!! DARES SUM RED & BLUELIGHTS HOT ON OUR FEEETS !!!
LICK III BUMP SAID DARES NOOO PLACE LIKE HOME !!!
PULLL OBER BEEE NIIICE !!! ASK DA OFFICIER WHAT STATE WEEE’RE IN ???
WHERE WEEE”RE GOIN & WHERE WEE”VE BEEN ??? STRAIGHT TOOO JAIL & DOOO NUT PASS GO !!!
OR COLLECT 200 DOLLARS ON DIS MONOPOLY BORED SHOW !!!
Written Byyy Da Bump Inda Road ~
Overseen Byyy g.T ~
As Besss Continues Tooo Sleeep ~
From Da Pg’s Of Bump’s Road Trip ~
Inassociation W/ AAA Pain Inda Ass Studios ~
inaffiliation Wit Myyy (Ars) American Rebel Style ~ & Dashin Fashion ~
In AAA thin greyline & Grey Matter Production ~
As No mo Introductions Dooo Weee Neeed ~
Heeey Bess Show Da Officier Sum Kneee ???
PUT ON YER PASSION PURPLE PINK LIPSTICK & GIV HIM AAA Wink Wink !!!
DARNIT DA OFFICIERS AAA LADY ???
MAYBE YOU CAN PUT ON DA LIPSTICK FER HER BUMP ???
Weee’re Alll Goin Tooo Helll III Mean Jail Now !!!
Watta Helluva Roadtrip Dis Hast Beeen !!! & Sum How ??? Da End !!!
An Art Byyy Todd ~
® TM © WITHIN…
Funny… we should play this sometime using song titles for one of the blogs
“AstrIde the rusting rails”
Astride these
rusting rails
a streetcar
named Valentine
rolls on,
searching for
new horizons
and second
hand memories
or any
cryptic signs
of the
American Dream.
San Antonio,
awash with
cobblestone and
old sangria,
where myth
rises from
the ash
trespassers and thieves
court the
hands of
sin and
Saints through
endless betrayal.
Historic markers
bear witness
to carpetbaggers
of undeniably
epic proportion,
just beyond
the unmarked
graves that
whisper softly –
but well,
of all
who perished
with honor
Viva Mexico;
valiant aristocracy
conquering
native tribe and
tongue, only
to become
vanquished themselves
ascending for
both faithful
and agnostic
alike though
few divine
symbols anymore.
Sacred rituals
have fallen
underfoot to
the daily
shuffle of
commerce and
the shiftless
gaze of
moneychangers on
the street
Ancestral spirits,
once mourned
now weep
V. Smith
Hug’s thanks for the memories guys awesome blog You two are awesome
Traveled much around these states
reading postmarks signs of lakes
remembering when a kid on trips
back seat with my brotherships
Fighting like hell (you touched me)
Ma said draw a line then leave each
other be
then I’d sing a song drive my Daddy wacked
99 bottles of beer on the wall all stacked
held my pee so many times
my bladder knew all the road trip signs
looking out he window.. pretending all the way
drooling on the door fast asleep as I’d play
then to a motel happy to get there
playing in the pool jumping on the beds
with nodda care
1,000.00 movies and pictures taken
as these years went by
Dad would brake-um out for company
They’d be so bored.. they would cry!
On our way back home with cool tokens a smile
Never to forget this trip..
hail to our car with many a mile
a road trip thats lasted forever
still a family … a trip.. together
THEE-END!!!
is it as long as the trip……ahahhahahahahhahaha!!! :love: :love:
Michelle and I put this together this morning. Michelle played the mom LOL
THE ROAD TRIP FROM HELL: WITH KIDS
A Collab
Get in the car kids,
buckle yourselves up.
Here is your soda pop.
Don’t spill your cup.
But mom I don’t like cherry.
Billy has my root beer.
…I have to go to the bathroom.
Can we stop here?
In about fifteen minutes
then we will stop to rest.
Hold it in a bit longer.
Just do your best.
Can we stop at the snake farm?
I want the boa constrictor
to squeeze out the guts
of my big brother Victor.
Now behave you two.
Shame on you Billy.
Now we are here.
You can relieve your willy.
It’s not my willy
that is bothering me.
It is my bladder
full of root beer and pee.
Okay there Billy,
you smarty pants you.
While we are here
try to take a poo.
But I went already
before we left home.
Could you go in with me Mom,
then come back to your poem?
Just give it a try
because on down the road.
I don’t want you to say
I need to drop a load.
No worries mommy,
my system’s cleaned out
except for my bladder,
of that there’s no doubt.
Okay so go pee,
then buckle up boys
for a little more traveling.
Read or play with your toys.
Ok mom, we’re ready to go.
Oh wait, my DVD’s stuck.
This trip is too boring
without Donald Duck.
Back in our youth traveling days
my brother and I
would count all the barns
and planes up in the sky.
Oh ok we will try that.
Hey Vic, you count the jets.
I’ll count the barns.
…Mommy, ARE WE THERE YET?
Not just yet boys,
In about one more hour.
Keep playing the count game.
Soon we’ll pass the lighthouse tower.
Can we stop there
and climb up to the top?
That light hurts my eyes.
Maybe I can make it stop.
Not this time boys,
We are too pressed for time.
We must get there for dinner.
Grandma made homemade key lime.
But I hate that flavor,
it makes my mouth pucker.
And Grandma smells like mothballs.
Can I have a sucker?
Grandma always has her candy.
She will surely have some.
…Okay there boys.
we are now at her home.
Oh all right, mom,
I forgot about that.
Bring it on Grandma!
Oh darn, I just shat.
Copyright July 29th 2011 MRK & RGD
LOL.. Billy’s mommy told him to go poo back at the rest stop but Billy didn’t listen. Now a mess to clean up at grandma’s… this turned out great (((Bob))) thanks so much.. I had fun collabing with you on this! :love:
I love this movie so so much I laughed my butt off
oops wrong one………………………….derrrrrrrrrrrr…….. try again 😳
hadda do it…………. hadda have some thriller in the trip other than knocking the shit outa each other ahhahah!
Hello everyone, I just got home and threw this together..
Sorry to be running so late . . . . All awesome poetry. Now I really do want to take a road trip SOON . . . .
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ARE WE THERE YET?
Scanning these photos,
one by one,
vacations remembered,
such a lot of fun,
those spur-of-the-moment
short vacations,
the trips that we took
piling into an overstuffed car,
so many times on a whim.
So near yet so far
for just a few days
or just overnight ,
to the mountains,
the deserts,
the ocean
and everywhere in between.
It doesn’t take much sometimes
to get the cobwebs out;
just a short-term change of scene
so often is exactly just what I need
to begin to feel like myself again.
And as I scan these photos now
and remember all the drives we took,
sometimes the very best ones
were the ones we didn’t plan,
just pointing the car
in any direction,
north or south
or east or west —
as long as we had a map
to tell us where we were
when we got there
eventually.
Some of these photos
are faded now,
but the memories remain,
some really funny ones
and sweet ones,
treasures I’ll never forget
of those trips in the car
and that question
from the back seat
so often heard —
ARE WE THERE YET?
And my answer today
would be the same as it was —
“Not quite yet,
but we’re getting there . . . .”
on this grand adventure
wherever we happen to be.
(c) barbara kausteklis (2011)
the amazing film actually I thought it was funny the way they were all backwoods and all!
I have a bit of a “techie question” .. How does one upload a video or a poem with picture ? Thank You in advance … you can email the answer to mackcrawley@yahoo.com(Case Sensitive)
V.S.