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Its once in your life you get to celebrate your Golden Year. This year it was mine! I was about to embark on a cool trip with my sister to Philadelphia. I’ve never been there that I’ve recalled, but I was probably a baby the last I went through so that really doesn’t count. This trip had been planned weeks in advance but like the norm of the shepherd family, you don’t commit to a trip until the last minute. Being a family that has always flown standby where ever we went, traveling was pretty convenient and spontaneous.Leaving work after one o’clock, I swung by Raleigh to pick my sister up then we started the long journey down the endless black asphalt road of I-95. I think the number 95 actually suggested the speed limit that some follow in the state of Virginia. Knowing that we both were going to bring our iPods, we figured one of us brought a FM transmitter so we could listen to our music over the radio. Well….we were out of luck, neither of us had brought one. Super, we just started what would be a 8 hour trip and now we don’t have any music. So we had to delight ourselves in conversation and humming some tunes. Time had passed and we thought we’d give the radio a try, right as we turned on the radio whats being played?? SNOW PATROL This is the very band that I was going to Philadelphia to see. It was fate =) Yes it was going to be a good time…yes indeed! To speed things up, we made it to our hotel that had the temperature of a sauna. Being handy, I had to remove the window jam so the window could be opened from 2 ft to a whopping 6 feet to speed the process of letting hot air out. After seeing Carolina whip some tail we went to bed knowing tomorrow would be a long day…but fun.

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