Well it took me five days, but it's worth it because I've managed to travel three hours into the future. To all those back in Pacific Standard Time: I'm going to ruin all of your favorite TV shows. Bwahahaha.
I'm ready to not drive for a long time. The United States is big, and talking to a cat gets rather dull after a few days (the cat did most of the talking). Fortunately I was fueled by continental breakfasts, beef jerky (teriyaki), and various local feasts before bedtime. I don't know why, but it seems to me that beef jerky and driving across the US go hand in hand. Yee Haw.
I could bore you with all the details of how delicious catfish is in the Midwest, how inbred some people look in Tennessee, or how my cat likes to sit on the dash while I'm doing 90mph. But I know what you really wanna hear about... CARNAGE! Not all of the drive was sunny and carefree, and on the sides of the roads laid testaments to that. Every once in a while I would spot a cluster of flowers, small heart shaped decorations, or crosses dug into the ground. These memorials would often have a name written across them. Just today I saw a road sign commemorating the deaths of a busload of people on the edge of a small cliff in Kentucky.
I don't mean to come off as depressing, but I did spend most of the trip sitting in the car and that was something I found interesting. I wish I could have stopped to photograph the memorials. That series of interstates was my own personal "Oregon Trail" without the Oregon of course... or the Oxen. And I didn't ford any rivers, but you get the point. I'm manifesting my destiny and what not. I had a few high adrenaline moments during the drive. Things can get pretty intense when you have snow and ice covering your windshield and you're on a two lane road in the middle of a freakin' forest in Arkansas during a blizzard in the dark of night as semi-trucks pass right next to you because you're going so slow because you can hardly see the road in right in front of you while a cat wont stoP MEOWING AND WALKING ON THE DASH AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIMES AND I CAN'T REACH THE BEEF JERKY CAUSE IT FELL ONTO THE FLOOR AT THE PASSENGERS SIDE OFF TEH CAR AEUIHAERGOIAWEOIHDOIREGW!
I couldn't even see the trees on the sides of the road... I probably missed a few memorials too.
But I made it! I'm safe now, as long as I don't freeze to death. That's a different story.
5 & 405, LA to SD
2 comments:
i don't know why i didn't expect it, but your blogs are really interesting and fun to read. if this were myspace, i'd give you kudos.
oh that was tessa btw
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