I am here

I am here...this is my trip...I am tired so this is all I will say. Oh and Google map is incorrect it was 3098 miles and I don't know how many hours but I made it in 5 days.

Day 4

Today was hard again. I think when I push my self so hard the next day I pay. LOL

first thing I did was slip and fall this morning while getting
out of the shower! I am OK. Just glad no one saw me hee hee.

I am in Cleveland OH. Tomorrow I will be there for sure.

I was kind of sad that I didn't make it in 4 days...but I just could not pull it off.
I am not used to driving like that. I do have 2400 miles under my belt and nine states!

California
Nevada
Utah
Wyoming
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio

I have

Pennsylvanian and New York left to go...then I am in Massachusetts!

I was just thinking about if this was a year ago I would be to scared to make this trip. I told Neil on the phone tonight it has been hard, but I think it is making me a stronger person. You all know I always want to be a stronger person.

Today I drove through Sound Bend Indiana where my grandpa was born. I probably have family there I don't even know. I also drove through Elkhard, and Bristol, both places I worked with at ATC.

Today I saw

-A very bad wreak
-Some cool thing that detects if there are animals on the interstate and warns drivers
-Beautiful old farm houses and barns

New things I did today
-Drove on a toll road and had to pay a toll
-Sliped on the bathroom floor and hit my head, ear, neck, shoulder and feet on the door frame of the bathroom

How I feel
cold
tired
sad because I miss Neil and Travey
excited to see my new house tomorrow
very sore from the fall...I am a dork

Day 3

Today I drove 13 hours, and 860 miles. I am tired, but made it to Illinois!

I have been craving a change in my life. Driving in Eastern Nevada and Utah was defiantly a change. At first is was cool, but it got over whelming. It is funny, I felt much better in Nebraska, I think because it reminded me of home. That is weird, for someone that craves a change. Oh well.

I forgot to say yesterday that I saw cattle guards on the on and off ramps LOL, the first time I have seen a minimum speed sign on the interstate, and driving in tunnels makes me smile.

Things I saw/heard
Locust in Iowa...listen



Corn




Corn



OH!!! and some Corn too!


Things I learned today
In Illinois when they put a sign out that says bump, the mean BUMP

Things I did for the first time
Drove over the Missouri River
Drove over the Mississippi River
Ate at Hardees instead of Carl's Jr
Stuck in traffic jam in Iowa
felt humid heat for the first time ever...it is weird

Questions I have
How come there is no paper toilet set covers here?

How do I feel
excited I might be MA tomorrow
tired
tired
my lip is chapped from the air conditioner in my car and hurts
really miss my Neil and Travey and Nick and Reyna and Ayden and Bri and Alice and everyone!

Taking things for granted

Picture taken from my car window, my view for the past 10 hours or so...encluding the bugs that hit my windshield.


You know when you have a lot of something, you tend to take it for granted. You tend to not appreciate it as much as say, someone without it. I have taken the company of family and friend for granted. I do not always see the people I love face to face, but there is a comfort in knowing if I wanted to see them it would only take a few minutes. Now it would take days.

I already miss people. Well I think I am very tired too. I knew it would be hard driving across the US, but I didn't know it would be as hard as it is. Its just that this area is big and open. Every time I get to the top of a hill or a bend in the road, I get excited to see what is next, but then I see, it's just another 50 miles of openness leading to another bend in the road or top of the hill. Today I thought I kept passing the same truck, until I realized it was just from the same company. It seems every tenth car I pass is a Honda CRV, or and elderly couple in a big white car.

I don't think we should worry about over population of the world, just move the extra people to the eastern parts of Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. I have not seen the eastern parts of Nebraska, or Iowa or Illinois, and where ever else it is I am going yet. I shutter to think it those states too hold huge openness with repeating vehicles and people for me. OHHHH I wish I was already there!



Tonight I am going to bed early and am going to try to get a lot of sleep. I think that is what is wrong with me tiredness.

Things I saw today
-gates that can be closed across the interstate to stop traffic in bad weather.
-big walls build to break the wind from hitting us drivers on the road
-cool big hills made out of piles of big rocks
-truck drivers pulling trailers swerving all over the road because of the wind
in Wyoming the slow lane on I80 is red for miles...for some reason and the fast lane is not
-some truck driver hauling molton sulfur (sounds scary I wonder what that is)
-OH I almost forgot! 3 people riding motor cycles WITHOUT helmets. I thought it was a federal law. Maybe not...or maybe there is some kind of million trillion dollar insurance policy you can buy that allows you to ride without a helmet. I don't know I am tired.

Things I learned
I don't like how cement highways sound in my car, or how they feel
to trust my instinct
family and friends are important

How I feel
tired
sad
excited
tired
miss Neil and Travis a lot
cold
tired

Wyoming

Today I left for MA. I made it as far as Wyoming. I have been thinking all day about what I wanted to post tonight. It was all very wonderful and profound. But now I am tired...and want to go to bed...so this is all you get.

I saw
bunches of old cars on the way to Reno for Hot august nights
Tucks pulling 3 trailers...
a crazy woman driving a van...almost running into people
pretty clouds making shadows on the foot hills
lots and lots of nothing in eastern Nevada

Notable events
almost cried when I saw the salt flats...never have seen anything like that before
Could not find a hotel to save my life
some hotel guy found me one in Evanston Wyoming.
I got lost trying to find it
ran a stop sign
got pulled over by a cop
he was nice and told me how to get to the hotel - let me off
cell wont work here
emailed and text people that i am safe and here
falling into bed now...

How do I feel?
tired
excited
cold
happy
sad because I miss Neil and Travis
sick to my stomach
mostly tired

will post my profound stuff some other day...if I can remember it LOL

Pictures and stuff

I think I am leaving Monday....not sure. Or Tuesday. This is Neil...after working on my house all day.

Travis

This is how Travis watches PBS in the morning.

I am busy getting ready to go to Massachusetts! Most of my stuff is packed. I am not taking that much, just clothes and photography equipment, computers....and stuff.

Got to go!