Chromeo Day 16, Drive to NYC
We got up in Cleveland this morning, because, well, why not? We're headed back to NY and one of the guys lives here, so it made sense to stop I guess. We grabbed breakfast at a place called The Place To Be, which had great t-shirts and I regret not buying one, had good coffee at Phoenix Coffee and hit the road.
It was a pretty smooth drive til we got to New Jersey. We were just driving along, minding our own business, when around the bend up ahead we saw a fireball shoot up from the road. Traffic stopped pretty fast and we inched along for a bit. When we came around the bend on the interstate, there was a vehicle on it's roof totally engulfed in flames, surrounded by a few smashed cars. There were just a couple cops that had just showed up, no fire trucks or ambulances yet. It was pretty surreal; looked just like an action scene in a Hollywood blockbuster. And the flames were *hot*. We felt them pretty strongly as we drove by, only 10 feet away. We researched it the next day and found out that the guy was driving in the other direction, someone changed lanes without looking, hit him, he flew over the median, got hit head on, flipped and exploded. Dead on impact. Pretty crazy. We had an idea that someone was probably inside at the time we passed, but it just seemed too weird. We were definitely awake after that, a little freaked out too.
Eventually we got in to the city and it felt great to get out of the van. No shows for the next 3 days, just details to take care of, so it's almost, but not quite, like a day off. What a concept.
It was a pretty smooth drive til we got to New Jersey. We were just driving along, minding our own business, when around the bend up ahead we saw a fireball shoot up from the road. Traffic stopped pretty fast and we inched along for a bit. When we came around the bend on the interstate, there was a vehicle on it's roof totally engulfed in flames, surrounded by a few smashed cars. There were just a couple cops that had just showed up, no fire trucks or ambulances yet. It was pretty surreal; looked just like an action scene in a Hollywood blockbuster. And the flames were *hot*. We felt them pretty strongly as we drove by, only 10 feet away. We researched it the next day and found out that the guy was driving in the other direction, someone changed lanes without looking, hit him, he flew over the median, got hit head on, flipped and exploded. Dead on impact. Pretty crazy. We had an idea that someone was probably inside at the time we passed, but it just seemed too weird. We were definitely awake after that, a little freaked out too.
Eventually we got in to the city and it felt great to get out of the van. No shows for the next 3 days, just details to take care of, so it's almost, but not quite, like a day off. What a concept.
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