Pints and Picks Week 11: Road Trip!

Each week, during college football seasonDPB’sKyle Magin andAndrew J. Pridgen pour on the prose withPints and Picks™.Who to wager and what to drink while doing it. This week: Road Trip.

Kyle,

Holy cow! Have I got a Saturday planned.

So, about a half-decade ago, I fled Park City in my Forester with exactly $3.78 in loose change a half-eaten ‘neath-the-seat Slim Jim and an interior covered in Border Collie hair. The car finally broke down on the Central Coast of California and it’s here I’ve been living ever since—watching housing prices desperately try to keep time with the Bay Area as the job market floods with newbie Cal Poly polyglot brocoders each spring.

It has been, in other words, a long time since I’ve been both mentally and physically ‘back’ to Utah. But lo, a quarterly budget-centric, um, you know, examination of our credit card…