Strangers in the Night
Copyright© 2015 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 20
Strangers in the Night:20.
"Should we call before we go?" I asked Wendy.
"Are you crazy?" she replied, "Absolutely not." And then she laughed.
We took the Valmaat helicopter back to the factory, picked up Ursula's car and boogied home. From Uusikaupunki, we followed Route 43 to Porintie/Route 12/Route 2 in Huittinen. That took 1 h 3 minutes.
Then we headed east on Vakka-Suomenkatu/Route 196 toward Vakka-Suomenkatu/Route 196, not far ... nearly two and a half football pitches.
Then we turned right onto Kalannintie/Route 43 and followed Route 43. A distance of 26 miles or so.
At the roundabout, we took the 2nd exit onto Laitilantie/Route 43, about 12 miles to another roundabout, took the 1st exit onto Lauttakyläntie/Route 12, and followed Route 12 for about 12 miles or a little less and took Route 2 ... Wendy was an excellent co-driver and we were keeping to our 55 miles per hour average.
Route 2 to Turuntie and back on 12. We took the exit toward Turku/Tampere/Vammala/Huittinen from Route 12/Route 2, about 4 minutes and turned right onto Porintie/Route 12and 2.
We continued to follow 12 and 2 for about 3 and a half miles and took the the exit toward Turku/Tampere/Vammala/Huittinen ... two pitches and on to Nokia.
Then we took Route 3 exit from 12 ... about 46 minutes. We turned right onto Turuntie/Route 12 for 45 minutes ... all the while keeping to the 55 speed limit. We took the Route 3 exit toward Route 11/Vaasa a little shy of three pitches and kept right at the fork to continue on Exit E12 and merged onto Route 3/E12 about half a mile and jumped on to E63 to Karjalankatu in Kuopio. Exit 69 from Route 5/E63.
We've been on the road for three and a half hours and aren't to Jyväskylä yet. I had made reservations at the Original Sokos Hotel Alexandra, where the Thousand Lakes Rally's start, right on Jyväskylä's main drag.
We finally made it and I had reserved the bridal ... since I couldn't get the top floor. I suppose I should lie and tell about the Olympic Gold Medal performance in horizontal dancing ... but I won't.
Ok? ... ok ok ok ... we were both exhausted. We barely made the shower ... road grime.
I washed her, she fell asleep washing me, I patted her dry and carried her to the enormous bed, tossed her in the middle, tossed myself at the edge and was asleep before I landed. I never even noticed the bounce.
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