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Imagine this scene, but much, much darker.

You’d then have an approximation of what I encountered on my way down to Mont Alto in the Fleet car this morning.  As I wound through the dark of 5:30 am, unable to turn on my high beams in the rain owing to a truck in front of me, I accidentally miscalculated where I was and turned about .5 miles too soon for the logging road I’d normally take.  Unperturbed, my GPS merrily plotted a new course on some rather rough tracks past camps, a mere .8 miles extra distance.

Harried and still slightly groggy, I kept trudging along, though I did notice what seemed to be an increased amount of puddles as I made my way.  By the .3 miles to left turn part of my journey, I looked ahead to discover that the road I should have been traveling over was more suited to small watercraft.  As my lane of travel had narrowed to just wider than a Ford, I endeavored to back up away from the deluge, using a chained off driveway a bit up the way I had come as an awkward launching point for a truly spectacular multipoint turn around.

Of course I had to make my way back in the “daylight” to snap a photo to accompany my adventure tale!

Update:  Hannah astutely pointed out that this comic from CaptchArt accurately, well, captures my experience:

If my former car and my current car had a lovechild, it might look a bit like the 2013 Volvo V40.  Should this beast every make its way to America, I’m game.  Perhaps by 2015?

There is something I’ve always loved about a city with hardly anyone living in it.  I just recently blogged about China’s Ordos and before it, about others like it.  Urville, though, takes the cake because it exists entirely in the head of its chief architect, savant Gilles Trehin.  And he’s been drawing it for the last twenty years.

(io9 – again)

The “whole” story of A Wrinkle in Time presented as a single comic page. You’re welcome.

(And thank you, io9.)

I concur with Engadget on this one: this would make a fine iPad app!

My trusty new steed has just arrived – and was greeted by a completely unexpected snowstorm while I took delivery yesterday morning.  Driving and photo sessions have been scarce so far but I did grab some this morning since we made the last minute decision to postponed our Pittsburgh departure due to the (likely) nasty mountain roads.