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ROAD TRIP PHOENIX COMICON 2017


A Long, Strange Trip By Michael Buffalo Smith It all started innocently enough when


my iPhone alarm went off at 3:30 am on Wednesday morning. I stumbled out of bed in the general direction of the coffee machine, got that sucker brew- ing and hit the shower, still half asleep – at least. The time was fi- nally here. I was set to at- tend the Phoenix Comicon for the second time. My 2015 trip had been a stone gas, and this trip promised even more fun in the sun out in Arizona. I was stoked. My bags had been packed the night before so I was locked and loaded. My friend Steve Flacy was soon at my front door to pick me up. You see, because of my vision, I’m not al- lowed to drive in the dark, and we had to head out around 4:45 am into the vast ex- panse of darkness.


A big “thank you” to Steve for rolling


out at such an ungodly hour, and returning to pick me up at 10 pm the following Memorial Day Monday. Big thanks also go out to my buddy Craig Stevens for sharing his South- west points with me! The flight from Greenville Spartanburg


to Atlanta is less than 30 minutes. It’s like the plane gets into the air and then we are de- scending, just like that. Of course, then


comes the 2.5-


hour layover in the Atlanta air- port, fooling


with my iPhone, buying the latest Stephen King


paperback and drinking the


vastly overpriced cup of joe from Starbucks.


Time passed pretty quickly,


and soon I was onboard my


Eric Wenzel, Dick Van Dyke, and your’s truly.


flight to Phoenix, which, with the


time zone three hours earlier, meant an 11:30 am arrival. The time zone thing always kind


of messes with my chemistry, but hey, it’s all good. When we landed, they announced the temperature in Phoenix was 96 degrees.


That’s like a cold snap for Phoenix, who usu- ally get the 110 degree days in summer. My friend of over 40 years, Eric Wen-


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