Road trip

So lets say, hypothetically speaking, that you wake up at 4 O'Clock on a Saturday morning and know that you're not going to be able to go back to sleep. What do you do? I've asked a couple of people and their responses were all pretty similar, saying they'd either lay in bed or get a head start on their "honey-do" list. Me, I decide to register for Carolina FreedomNet 2006 to see several of your favorite bloggers (one of which is my older brother) and hit the road for a three hour drive. It's a good thing the missus is an extremely patient and understanding woman. There aren't many people, I would imagine, that would tolerate being woken up at 4 in the morning to hear that their husband is going on a road trip, much less tell him to "have fun and I'll see you when you get home".

I made it to the hotel called my older, and sometimes wiser brother, who blogs at Confederate Yankee to find out where he was and to let him know that I was in the lobby. After meeting up with him we headed to the conference where I got to speak with Lorie Byrd of Wizbang!, Sister Toldjah and Josh Manchester for a bit before the conference got fired up. During the first break I was able to speak briefly with Mary Katherine Ham, Bruce from Gay Patriot and Scott Elliott of Election Projection.

I know I'm missing a couple of people, and yes I'm a knucklehead for not remembering, but hey I was operating on three hours of sleep so gimmie a break.

I had to bail between the second session and lunch so I missed Scott Johnson's keynote on Rathergate. All in all I had a great time and it was well worth the trip.

I'd provide a recap, but well, Mary Katharine, Kathy of Hang Right Politics and Lorie Byrd have already said everything I'd have said and much more eloquently.

I am amazed that a number of bloggers I've been reading on a daily basis for a good while now are NC residents and somehow I'd missed that bit of information. Hey, I've never claimed to be the most observant person in the world.

Now before you start reading the list of folks that were in attendance, it wasn't just right of center blogs. There was a token hate filled lefty in attendance that felt the need to act a fool. The token conference troll's version of events (that I won't link to) aren't what anybody else I've talked to remembers, but hey what's use of the internet if you can't publish self flattering fiction?

If anybody in attendance wants pics let me know and I'll shoot you the address.