After dancing for a few hours I checked my watch and realized that it was three thirty in the morning. The music in the area I was in, downstairs inside, had stopped and I was standing there trying not to reel and I figured that it was time to go. I had wanted to get the entire experience and had forced myself to stay long after I thought I would go. But since I had hopped myself up on ginseng and monster drinks, I was okay to drive. So I left the pseudo Playa and started my journey back to the land of the straights.
As I had toured most of the streets of San Francisco I was quick and dandy fast on my way out of there and onto the freeway. Of course it was the wrong one, until I realized that the freeway I was on would take me to the 101 that would then take me home. So the next thing was trying to find a 24 hour food joint that was open. As Denny’s was the only place I could think of I spent the next hour or so trying to find one directly off of the freeway, which is no small feat I might add. I passed by an exit somewhere in Santa Clara I think and there was the wondrous yellow sign that shows the way to 24 hour eating. Of course I didn’t notice it till I passed it, so I went to the next exit, flipped the rurudo around, and headed back. I went in, was seated by a cute little Mexican girl with a great smile, and had her not even bother to give me the menu. I knew exactly what I wanted. A side salad with blue cheese dressing, a super bird with fries, and a coffee so I wouldn’t nod out. It arrived quickly and was gone almost as quick. I inhaled my food and a few cups of Joe, and gassed up the tank before I went back to the road. I had to make it as far as my buddies joint to sleep, but as his pad was off of the road about 23 miles down a curvy road of death, I had to be especially careful. And I was fine, until about 7:30 in the A.M. and then I started to nod out. I stopped by the 198 exit, the road to sleepy time, and called the wifey to let her know I was going to be hibernating for a few hours in about 45 minutes, told her I loved her, and was back down the highway.
