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The Battalion
On the road again
Flat tires, wrong directions and no place to stay doesn't stop these students
By Ashley Marshall
THE BATTALION
Zach McMahon has taken
more than his fair share of road
trips.
In fact, McMahon, fondly
known by his friends as Hdnnie,
has created a Web site about road
trips he has taken and is writing a
book about his adventures. A sea
soned veteran of road trips,
Honnie has driven to Canada,
New York, Chicago and various
cities in Texas, proving the age-
old saying that “getting there is
half the fun.”
Summer is the choice season
of road trips for students, as the
atmosphere allows schedules to
be more flexible for vacations.
But students such as Hdnnie
believe the fun usually lies in the
impulsive journey rather than the
final destination.
“We usually just pack up and
drive without planning any
thing,” Hdnnie said. “It could
take away some of the fun if you
plan too much.”
Honnie, a senior anthropology
major, is part of a group of road
trippers who call themselves the
McGrishenters, a compilation of
the last names of the seven
friends who take trips together
and journal their experiences.
Their eclectic Web
site,McGrishenters.com,
describes the fun they’ve had and
the predicaments they’ve experi
enced on numerous trips around
the nation.
Even though Hdnnie and his
friends have encountered various
mishaps, it hasn’t deterred them
from taking their impulsive,
somewhat improvisational trips.
Last weekend, Josh Hargrove,
a senior recreation, parks and
tourism sciences major, and
Honnie took a trip to San Antonio
for a friend’s wedding and decid
ed to go a day early to camp out.
When they arrived at Garner
State Park, the two found they
needed reservations — which
they didn’t have — and ended up
pitching their tent under a high
way bridge by the river.
“We just chilled out
under the bridge and
played our guitars,”
Honnie said.
“About an hour
later, a family
pulled up that
was in the
same
predicament
we were in,
so they
camped out
with us.”
Another tent
was pitched on a
road trip to
Boeme when they
had no place to
sleep. Upon
waking in the
morning,
Hdnnie found
they were inad
vertently in the
middle of a golf
course with peo
ple teeing off all
around them.
“It wasn’t a
very discreet place
to camp,” Hdnnie
said. “No matter what you have
planned, it might fall through. So
we just try to enjoy the trip and
enjoy doing whatever it takes to
make the trip work.”
Megan Custer, a senior man
agement information system
major, has encountered road trip
mishaps as well, but enjoys the
time she gets to spend on the road
with her friends. Custer has taken
four road trips this summer for
weddings, and passes the time in
cars by talking, reading, listening
to music and crocheting.
On a trip to Lubbock, Custer
packed a whole bag she termed a
“fun
bag” full
of decks
of cards,
snacks, dominoes, an MP3 player
and her marriage-prep books.
But, Custer said she mostly
enjoys passing the time by talking
to her car-mates.
“Sometimes, when you’re on
a vacation, you spend more time
doing activities than talking to the
people you’re with,” she said.
“That’s why I like car trips —
you can get a chance to catch up
with your friends and really have
good conversations.”
On the way to a San Antonio
wedding with her fiance Dean
Dominy, Custer had a series of
mishaps that seemed to come
straight out of a movie. After get
ting bogus directions from
Mapquest that took them the
wrong way through Round Rock,
Custer and Dominy got stuck for
hours in Austin traffic, changed a
blowout on the highway in their
wedding clothes, and ended up
missing the wedding.
“We were frustrated with each
other and frustrated with
Mapquest — we were
not talking,” Custer said. “But
after the blowout, we just start
ed laughing because we knew
there was no way it could get
any worse.”
Traveling the rest of the trip
on the spare tire, Custer and
Dominy arrived in time for the
reception and laughingly retold
the tale of their journey.
Just as Honnie realized, some
road trips don’t go exactly as
planned, but those incidents usu
ally end up making the trip
more memorable.
“My favorite part is the ran
dom things that happen that are a
pain at the time, but those are the
things that you can look back on
and laugh,” Honnie said.
“It’s impossible to have a per
fectly planned road trip,” Honnie
said. “And if you do, it’ll be a
boring road trip.”
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