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You're listening to the Doug stand-hope podcast. Hello. Hello. Okay. All right. Where do you have? What are you drinking? I know drinking other things. I got to go pick somebody up after this.

I'm having one, but then I have to go back out and find food. I got a late start this morning and I was almost late for my own podcast. So I'm still vibrating from the drive.

Oh, I know you're going to drive between yesterday and today. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was along with two. And I get pretty fucking wrecked last night. This is a day eight. And I met 2800 miles have driven. And that was with two days of not driving.

So I've been putting on some fucking miles. How many books? On my sixth book. It's Alan Arkin called out of my mind. And it's kind of like uplifting into the little spirituality. But it was put me in a really good place of mind, especially for the end of the drive where I start getting a little quivery.

And having been out on the fucking open roads of Nevada, just seeing any kind of traffic. So I'm coming into Havasu. And I'm on I 40. And it's down to one lane of on the 40 of construction. And I get as I'm following on the fucking. It's all just fucking trucks right on your ass.

I get a truck on my ass. I got a fucking double barrel gravel hauler in front of me on one lane road doing fucking 60 miles an hour. And the fucking gravel hauler all of a sudden switches over to the left hand lane.

Like so I thought construction had switched. I'm just following blindly because I can't see in front of him. I don't know what the fuck is going on.

What's on coming traffic, right? No, no, it's a it's a two lane highway. Oh, he said one lane. Yeah, but it would have been down to one lane because of the construction.

So I just followed him, assuming the construction is now moving us to the left hand lane, not knowing he's part of the fucking construction.

I get a fucking water hauler right on my ass. It's part of the construction the gravel gravel hauler in front of me. And it just signs repeatedly lane closed, lane closed.

And the orange cones are too close together for me to try to cut through. I would have had to go over a fucking cone.

So I'd finally just pulled off into the I started having a fucking major panic attack. I pulled off into the middle median when I got an opening.

And I just waited for traffic to a fucking open up so I could get back on it.

So yeah, I'm a little jacked right now. It sounds like that that smokey and the bandit moves where they they move bandit around.

I have to sandwich in between some eyes.

So yeah, I started started last Wednesday and got a late start thanks to you having to cut commercials.

I was going to try to I was going to try to stay at the salt and sea, which is I was fucking I don't know if you've ever seen documentaries on the salt and sea, but it's just fascinating and eerie and spooky.

The houses when it used to be like a big resort are still there, but they're all abandoned and painted on and like art like art cars, but houses like people just doodle on the fucking houses because it's in such disrepair.

It's utterly bleak. It's like another planet.

And I would have stayed there, but I get a late start. So I had to stay in Yuma.

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