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Posted By: doug goodman

Once upon a time...

My girlfriend lived in Los Angeles and was moving about 450 miles to northern California. She was planning to drive her Honda CRX hatchback with her belongings and her cat. We figured out that I would fit in the passenger seat, but the cat would have to be on the floor in front of me. At that point, we had been on 4 dates.

I suggested that if we drove via Texas I would be able to see a Rangers game in Arlington Stadium before they moved to a new park, so in August of 1993 in 100+ temperatures we drove an extra 2800 miles, with the cat, and we added major league stadium #26 to my list (my regular season ML list now stands at 46). We were still in Arizona when Nolan Ryan beat up Robin Ventura.

We've now been married for nearly 14 years, so it was a pretty nice drive. I'm not sure that the cat agreed, but she made it until just a couple of months ago, and she never seemed to hold a grudge.

Doug