jetting to jersey shore

sans pajamas and a full supply of daily vitamin supplements, items i never forget to pack, i sit at an LAX gate waiting for the plane that's going to take me to Charlotte, NC, where I change planes for Philadelphia, where my brother Sean picks me up in his shiny, coppery-orange TransAm and drives me down the Atlantic City Expressway to the Garden State Parkway and, an hour or so later, to our final destination, the one-story yellow house at 10 Village Drive, where Colleen may or may not be asleep in her lilac bedroom. With no glitches today, this will be near midnight EST.

time to board.