Mercury rules timing and the soldier and I have Mercury in opposition…. 180 degrees apart. So we decided to do this, to try to collide sort of like two darts trying hit the same dot on the map. I was coming in on a plane, then driving… he was driving.

We knew we could get to the same city on the same day for some amount of time but outside of that, it was a total crap shoot. I booked my flight and with 1 day notice so I didn’t have anything to say about “when”. I had no choice but to pick the only reasonable fare in between getting my kids to school on Friday and Mother’s Day, so I did.

I didn’t know exactly where we’d meet until the next day but when that day arrived we could see things we synching up.

However, when he told me 4 hours before my flight, precisely where to meet him (side of the road at a truck stop) I’d have never dreamed I would pull in just 5 minutes before he did. Can you imagine? I had to make 2 flights, rent a car – that’s timing! But it gets even more incredible.

I pulled in and parked at the truck stop and seeing as it was nice in Minnesota, I rolled down the window and what do I hear?

I hear BAND OF GOLD screaming… just blaring from loudspeakers where the truckers fuel and wash their windows. And you tell me. What do you do about something like this?