SpaceBass: Europe 2004
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We knew we wouldn't be able to make it up another hill without first fortifying ourselves. We located some sort of temporary beer stand and seated ourselves to check our map and quench our thirst.

This turned out to be a pretty good place to sit, as it was right along one of the main entry ways into the town by road, and there were a ton of nice, high-end automobiles tooling in right by us. This Lotus Elise (technically, "L33s") was one of the few of which I had time enough to catch a decent photo, mainly because those pedestrians got in its way and forced it to slow down.

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After a few beers, we managed to finish mapping out our intended route up the next hill to the Exotic Gardens. Then we promptly got lost as we set off in the completely wrong direction due to being distracted by some pretty girls. We promptly lost the pretty girls as well (or, more properly, they lost us) and slowly found our way through the streets of Monte Carlo as we attempted to relocate our route.

Then suddenly we found the street we'd been searching for and lo and behold, there was the massive hill. "Wow," we said. "Those are some pretty fancy-pantsy stairs."

"Yeah," we replied, downcast. "But the public isn't allowed to use 'em. Look, it's a private stairway."

"Well, shee-it," we responded in unison.

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Rather than staying to dwell on the huge amount of suckitude embodied by our having to go out of our way to bypass a big set of stairs up the hill, just in order to eventually go up some other stairs up the hill, only farther away, we instead pressed on, bypassing the big, beautiful set of private mothersucking stairs up the hill, in order to go even farther to find the "common people's" goddamn stairs we were "allowed on."

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