Taking the 'hound is a desperate measure for me, to which I resort only when pressed for time, or when a rideshare is not forthcoming. Having already missed two days of work to witness L. Cohen's historic and exquisite return to Montreal, I needed to get back to Boston on Tuesday--not exactly prime time for 'sharing.
Luckily, this time I had my girlfriend's shoulder on which to lean, and her ears with which to share my CBC podcasts.
I also had the memory of the first-class rideshare we took on the way up with the kindhearted Cole and loquacious Katrinka. Incidentally, one of the podcasts we listened to was the geeky, yet endearing, Grammar Girl who, in a particularly quirky episode, explained that the so-called funniest phoneme in the world was the hard "K" sound.
Cole is a mover from Tennessee whose chiseled farm-boy looks mask a hyper-articulate theology student impassioned by jazz and baroque music (he was heading to Montreal for the 2008 Montreal Baroque festival).
Katrinka is an extroverted upstate New Yorker who was raised by a Jewish father and Bahai mother and, channeling Kate Hudson's Penny Lane, longs to lose herself in Morocco.
When Cole and I first got in touch, he offered to meet up beforehand - for his peace of mind or mine I'm not sure. We decided it wouldn't be necessary, but Katrinka took him up on the offer and they seem to have hit it off since Cole was planning to crash at Katrinka's sister's Westmount pad for the weekend (Are all these "k"s making you giddy?")
Like all good ridesharers, we waxed transiently about God, the Problem of Evil, and the legacy of CBGB. What else?
1 comment:
How did you find your ride from Boston > Montréal?
I've found a ride on Craigslist exactly once; mostly I've managed to get rides from folks I know (although they don't go up that often) and I networked to another person.
Suggestions welcome. I travel between Boston and Montréal often and have been stymied by the crap infrastructure between them.
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