We’re Gonna Do 2013 Our Way
To read this lucky saga from the beginning, please click here.
“Welcome to American Airlines.” She was a lovely woman. No icicle teeth. No smoldering flames behind her eyes. “Of course, these tickets are valid. Please, step right up and claim your priority seat to Chicago.”
MTM and I arrived in Chicago early (or two days late, depending upon one’s point of view). By now we all know, this travel saga has not been a fiction. We touched down and walked to the O’Hare bus terminal, because a bus was the only way we could get from Chicago to Milwaukee.
Through a blast of steam, the driver beamed at us and kissed my hand. “Buenos Dias. My bus is your bus, as long as you do not mind my listen to Espanish Christian music. And singing. At the top of my voice.”
“We don’t mind.” We said it in stereo.
We settled in for a ride through the snow-blanketed countryside. Powder dusted the windshield, licked at the windows. A picture postcard of wintry perfection. It was glorious.
Mostly. The driver couldn’t sing. But whatever. We were almost there.
I stooped to kiss the frozen sidewalk in downtown Milwaukee and almost had to be pried up from there. We were finally, miraculously, visitors to Milwaukee, the city of the spawned dear MTM. And Miller High Life. And a shot and a beer for a buck.
And Laverne & Shirley.
We decided, then and there, in the back of my sister-in-law’s Jeep, slipping and sliding down the arctic interstate, that we would do 2013 our way. Lucky 2013. Make all our dreams come true.
That’s my wish for you in 2013, Dear Reader.
May your year be lucky.
May everything go your way.
May your every dream come true.
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(singing off key…) Looks like you ‘all made it….
Finally. Flying again today. Back to Charleston.
Congratulations on surviving, and Happy New Year to you both! Hope you had a grand time in Milwaukee. I can’t wait to hear about it. Honestly, I know absolutely nothing about it. But, it can’t be all bad if MTM came from there.
Good luck getting back to Charleston in one piece. We are waiting for you with open arms.
We rode by that church yesterday, the one you sent a photo of the interior. We did not have time to go inside. MTM often says Milwaukee got famous architects’ worst buildings. Perhaps he will do a series on that sometime.
Lucky 2013 to you.
Happy New Year, Andra!
Lucky 2013 to you and Karen, Kim.
I can’t sing… but that never, ever stops me
Happy New Year, you crazy Cootchie.
Xoxo, Tori. I hope you are feeling better. Lucky 2013 to you, Tom and Thomas.
Here’s to 2013! Your dreams. Your way! What a ride!
A crazy ride. Safe travels from Toronto. Can’t wait to give you a hug. xo
Safe and speedy travels today, your Queendom awaits.
We have a 5 hour layover in NYC. So, not speedy, but I will take safe and completed in one day.
Lovely, NYC always has the nicest cabbies to hang with.
Ours was ok. We had to tell him how to get to our destination.
Happy 2013 Andra – Hope it brings you happiness and more great material!!!
You too, Valerie.
This tale rivals Planes, Trains and Automobiles! Safe travels and a happy, lucky new year. Andra and MTM. May this year be The One.
Lucky 2013, Kate and Phil, Maddie and Felix, Mac and Clive, Big Al and the Princesses.
May we all do our architecture tour in Paris this year.
Amen.
Life is an adventure! Thanks for sharing yours.
It seems to me that you two have been doing it “your way” from the get-go, and that is as it should be. Most of us could take a lesson! Happy, Lucky ’13 to you, too, Andra and MTM!
Happy New Year, Karen.
Welcome to New York. Here’s hoping its JFK and not LAG…May your 2013 be bright.
We left LGA and came to Williamsburg to try out the food scene. Lokal.
May this year be your year, Robert.
Happy New Year!!
Xo-L
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Lucky 2013, Laura.
Wishing you and MTM the very best year! Dreams realized and tall buildings leaped in a single bound! And no icy interstates!
Lucky 2013 to you and Bill, Cheryl. xo
Love the line about Milwaukee’s getting famous architects’ worst buildings! My Sara would appreciate that. Have been away from the blogosphere over the holidays but hope to get back on track again this week. Happy New Year to you and MTM–have a safe trip home.
Hugs,
Kathy
Lucky 2013 to you and Sara, Kathy.
I suspected it was nonfic back when the car was plowed in an actual picture. Also the description of the woman as eternally perky to conceal a dark streak sounded really really familiar. Well done .And I’m glad you weren’t the victims of Satan and his Stoolies.
Technically, it is creative non-fiction. I took some creative liberties in my descriptions to reflect how I was feeling at the time.
I cannot imagine you doing anything any way but your way. You take hold of it and squeeze every bit of joy out of it.
You remind me that I need to do that too…thanks for the reminder Buddy!
Lori, I hope 2013 is the year that everything goes your way. And, you get to go back to Ireland.
Milwaukee is a great town and neighbor of Chi-town, both nestled on the shore of Lake Michigan. MTM, great architectural mind that he has, is, of course right about Milwaukee’s churches. Frank Lloyd Wright did a Greek Orthodox church there that is not his best idea – not that of my “people”. tee hee
MTM mentioned that church as an architectural eye sore, Penny.
He doesn’t like it, either.
That’s my wish for you two too!
May your year be lucky.
May everything go your way.
May your every dream come true.
Many thanks, Nancy.
Just the thought of LaVerne and Shirley makes me smile! I don’t know where it is coming from–it can’t be because of reading headlines or anything based on what I see around me, but I feel extremely positive and optimistic about the new year. Maybe the word that describes this intuition is indeed lucky! I certainly wish the very same thing for you and MTM, dear Andra. We can boldly walk into 2013! oxo
Feeling positive and optimistic gets us most of the way through life, I think. I’m glad to know I’m not alone.
I hope you have the luckiest of New Years, Debra.
Right back at you. I was born on a 13th, and so I embrace it. Luck to all!
Happy New Year!