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The Ultimate Taxi

12/3/2012

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Aspen and vicinity, 970/927-9239, www.ultimatetaxi.com

One of the few appropriate uses of the world ‘ultimate,’ Jon Barnes’ Ultimate Taxi is a 1978 Checker cab done up in, um, ultimate style. For your listening pleasure, the taxi also an incredible sound system and Jon plays a synthesizer and a crazy computerized woodwind en route to your destination. For the passengers’ visual pleasure, there are miles of fiber-optic filaments, laser-lights, and complimentary 3-D glasses. For good measure, the taxi has a roller coaster simulator on the dash that can induce motion sickness among drunks at a mere 5 miles per hour, and it also has webcams that immortalize its buzzed riders online. (The best of the site’s archives might jest be a video of Hunter S. Thompson in 1990, philosophically waxing, “Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.”) The fare isn’t cheap—$200—but Barnes is the best person to call for a lift if you don’t have a destination in mind and are in no hurry to get there.

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