Creative Writing: Under The Spell - A Travel Tale By Danny O'brien

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many hundred yards along the road signs reminded us to
"Drive to the left." On the open road it was no problem, however moments later
in the congestion of Wexford I was near panic, yelling at Travis to help remind
me what side of the street I was on. It didn't help that he often mixes left and
right up in his mind, some sort of hereditary functional disorder. I almost
broke out in sweat when I had to make my first right turn feeling as though I
was going head on into the oncoming traffic.

By the time we got through Wexford I was in desperate need to stop for a wee pee.
I saw a small side road and took that hoping to find a secluded spot to relieve
myself.

I discovered that when you leave the main roads in Ireland you are almost
immediately secluded. We stopped in front of an old abandoned barn made of stone
with an unusual door shaped like a horseshoe. The earth smelled wet and fresh
and was a bit boggy, more so when I departed. It was only a few hundred yards
before we learned ...

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was the huge distance of fifty four miles.

A great part of the mystery was solved when we realized that the purchase of the
wonderful Michelin No.405 map of Ireland contributed to this illusion. The map
scale is 1 inch equals 6.30 miles. A map of California at this scale would be
over eleven feet long.

Our wee map of Ireland was only four and a half by three feet, perfect to unfold
in our wee red Ford Fiesta. There was barely a cow path in the whole of Ireland
that did not exist on this map. Fortunately neither one of us are one of those
people who can't fold up a map. Neither could we unfold it the car. The map
became part of the adventure.

Suddenly there seemed to be an ...

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