In March 2014, HERC took a road trip across seven states. On his second day out, he woke up and started driving in a heavy, wipers-on full-speed rain across East Texas. Despite the heavy weather (which would last well into Arkansas and the early evening), traffic was surprisingly moving along at more than 90 miles an hour on the turnpike. As he often does, HERC spent the first half hour or so driving in silence, contemplating the day and mentally reviewing his to-do list while concentrating on the road and the rain. Once he turned on the iPod in the Blueberry, the first song he heard that day was Tom Petty's "Runnin' Down A Dream", a long-time favorite driving song. Using the steering wheel-mounted controls, he upped the volume to 16, about as loud as he can handle without getting a headache. By the time Mike Campbell's end of song extended solo was still echoing in his head, HERC happened to glance down at the digital speedometer in the center of the Blueberry's cluster of gauges and was surprised to see he was going 110 MPH in a torrential downpour in rural Texas AND STILL GETTING PASSED by jacked-up giant-wheeled four wheel drive trucks. Good times.
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