The Test Begins...Now

I decided to write a Blog about our upcoming trip to Yellowstone. It's not my first attempt to blog. My last was a false start, it lasted two days. This time i have a trip to propel my writing so hopefully I'll be successful.

Old man Einhorn at the AAA office gave me and Bricks a bunch of TripTiks to help us plan out our drive from Salt Lake City to West Yellowstone. When I asked him if he was referring to the tryptych that i learned about in Art History he smiled patiently and proceeded to direct all future statements to Bricks. As a nod to Private Einhorn I've named our trip blog "the Jewish TripTik".

I'd just like to thank him for pointing out where in Idaho we can find the skinheads. If i see one of them and a grizzly bear it'll all be worth it!

We will be leaving Monday August 11th so until then I'll be writing a little about our pre-trip planning and other random thoughts.


"The test begins..Now" are the first lyrics to The Flaming Lips' album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. There is a lyric that has been in my head all week:

I don't know where the sunbeams end
And the starlight begins
It's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides
What's right for his own life
It's all a mystery
'Cause I'm a man, not a boy
And there are things you can't avoid
You have to face them
When you're not prepared to face them

Vacations are cool because they give you a gauge of where you are in life. You're living, working, eating and sleeping and it's all so linear that you can't really see any major change in your self. Then you go away from this place and you do different things. You hike in the mountains or you jump off a cliff. You fight with your friends and you drive for eight hours. Then you have another beer and you fly back home.

And you're different.

When was it that you became this person?

Sometime between the sunbeams and the starlight.

Life is full of mysteries.