You know that feeling when the bus pulls into the synagogue parking lot after the 12 hour drive home from convention?  When you haven’t showered since you woke up 21 hours ago and the condition of your voice is proof that you had a blast, but you can’t quite figure out where the last 48 hours have gone?   That sad, still, quiet feeling when the beautiful sunrise you’re watching signals the end of the experience, and not the beginning?

If I focus I think I can piece together yesterdays events:

3:15 AM CST - Wake up
3:36 AM CST - Arrive at United Hebrew, St. Louis, MO
3:41 AM CST - Sheldon behind the wheel, Logan at copilot
8:04 AM EST - Gas light dings somewhere in Indiana
8:14 AM EST - Fuel gauge plummets, Sheldon attempts drafting behind 18-wheeler
8:24 AM EST - sweating, coast into gas station, $124.78 in gas, Mike behind the wheel, Abbie at copilot
1:10 PM EST - Pit stop,  $111.02 in gas, Shift change, Logan behind wheel, Sheldon at copilot
3:42 PM EST - Avoid head on collision with renegade 1978 Vista Cruiser
4:08 PM EST - Arrive Emma Kaufmann Camp, Morgantown, WV
7:44 PM EST - Finish stage setup and soundcheck
7:45 PM EST - Begin Havdallah and concert
10:31 PM EST - Sweaty, exhausted, and covered in dirt we depart EKC
12:56 AM EST - Lights out
It’s about 9:30 AM now and we’ve been on the road for a half hour. We’ll be driving up through West Virginia, and Maryland, to Stroudsburg, PA for Pinemere Camp.  It’s about 6 hours away. I just want to send a huge thank you to Mike, Denny, Logan, Abbie, and Joe for working their tails off to make this stuff happen.

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