Mobile Bunker, Fully Operational
Before departing from Swainie’s house, I made sure to spend a little bit of time on the ‘net downloading drivers for the on-board sound card for the computer in the Mobile Bunker.
Much to my pleasure I was able to get fully actualize the epiphany that I had just before leaving for the show. On the way home we had a fully operational Mobile Bunker complete with DVD theater setup (we watched Old School and Nine Inch Nails’ And All That Could Have Been concert DVD), video games (the passengers played You Don’t Know Jack Vol 3), and music (iTunes rocking out with visualizations and a gracious donation of audio bits from JD’s iPod).
The ride home was otherwise pretty tame. We didn’t have any side adventures–since everything was working–and I didn’t speed nearly as much since we didn’t need to be anywhere in a big hurry. After arriving in Kansas City we took our first stop. Thankfully I got in a (relatively) quick shower and a change of clothes before we headed over to Kari’s house. It’s always a pleasure to see the Plumbs, even if it was a little too briefly.
Stopping at Kari’s house (JD’s fiancee) was a real treat. She cooked us up a fantastic enchilada dinner and we were joined by Kippy for what was one of the best “family meals” we’ve had in a long time.
After departing Kari’s… stuffed… we headed back home to The Bunker. In whole the first official Bunker Road trip was better that I could have imagined. While the ride home was a slightly less joyous than the ride there, it was still full of remarkably good spirits–excellent even–for four guys that hadn’t left more than 20 feet from each other in four days.
No doubt about it, we will have to do something like this again. It was so fun it’s hard to imagine a better little vacation.