Convertible Corvette

I arrived in Phoenix on business Wednesday morning. Well Phoenix morning anyway..As we touched down , the plane was 30 minutes early. Everyone was quite happy..until we had to sit on the tarmac for over an hour waiting for our gate to clear. How sad is that, we want from being early to being late. I wonder if the airlines count that as an early arrival, ontime or late in their statistics. People were making mad dashes through the airport to reach connecting flights. Pure chaos..

I was headed out to the shuttle to massive Phoenix airport rental car pavilion. It's this massive separate building with it's own food vendors and everything where all the rental car companies have their desks and operations. I got outside around 9:45am and it was already 85 degrees out..but it's a dry heat compared to Florida. Florida = Sauna...Phoenix = Oven. There was at least 100 people waiting in this long massive rental car shuttle line. Oh joy, I went to the end. My luck was changing as about 8 rental shuttle buses arrived. It was awesome. I piled into a bus and I was off.

I got to the pavilion and proceeded out to the Hertz garage area because I have Hertz gold. My name was in lights baby. It said L04 for my stall. I proceeded to walk over to it and saw the car was occupied and started. Wild...hmm what now. I was walking back to the counter when a Hertz agent asked what was wrong. I said my car was being stolen. She said she'd go find me another car. After about 5 minutes of waiting, she came out and ushered me over to this other section. She pointed at a white convertible Corvette and asked if that would be okay. Oh yeah, that's fine and I was getting charged the same rate as a mid-size. Sweet...so I hope in the convertible and attempt to figure out how to start the car. It has one of those keyless push button ignitions. I finally figured out that you had to have your foot on the brake to start the car by reading the owner's manual.

I literally zip out of the rental car garage and head over to my appointment. All I can say is the car has some horsepower. I was driving down the freeway on the way to my hotel and decided to punch it. I hit 90 in no time. Very fast.

I fly back today and Orion flies into Baltimore tonight. He's hanging out for the entire weekend. We're planning a lot of cool stuff with some triathlon training thrown in as well. My quads still hurt and my foot pain is back. It'll be good to continue resting and recovering with him here. We'll be hitting the gym on Saturday morning for sure as this is our date with destiny. The Vermonster from Ben & Jerry's is going to be consumed that afternoon. We'll have pictures and videos of the event. Orion and I are each getting one and hopefully we'll beat rather than have it beat us. For those who don't know, it's 20 scoops of ice cream, hot fudge, banana, cookies, brownies, and all of your favorite toppings.

This will be our first eating attempt. I think next year is when we'll make some trips around the country demolishing other challenges.

3 months 2 days...and I'm scared!