july 8, 2009
2:28am we did it. we made it in one piece to albany. and arrived at the exact same time we left san diego 5 1/2 weeks ago. ironic? crazy? yes. it seriously seems like a minute ago we left san diego. 7,960.7 miles exactly to travel all throughout america. i accomplished my goal of driving the entire way so i am stoked. its 54 degrees out. beyond exhausted. best trip of my life and a summer ill never forget. i have always wanted to drive across the country but never did i expect the trip to be this amazing and awesome. this trip has taught me to really let things come as they come. everything happens for some reason. and even the worst of times (driving through nebraska) will wind up being one of our favorite stories. life handed us a bunch of lemons and we drank that lemonade the entire way. i couldn't be happier that i had a great friend like erin along the way with me. we hit 33 states and traveled almost 8,000 miles. i feel so lucky and blessed that we got to have this journey and experience all the things along the way. now that i feel i have seen america to its fullest, i am ready to take on a new and even bigger adventure: backpacking through europe........ all i have to do is save enough money and buy a backpack and here we come.... all i have to say is 'europe. watch out. you are going to have no idea what hit you when we get there"
to be continued.......
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
"camping in maine"
july 7, 2009
9:46am leaving jakes. little bit behind schedule. that seems odd. us behind schedule? off to maine to go CAMPING!!!!!!! yayayayyayyaya! so excited.
11:40am we're in maine already. not sure how that happened. got here pretty quickly. we're at 7,540 miles and its 60 degrees. WHAT? pretty much freezing. just stopped to get my second redbull of the morning and firework sparklers. why not? now off to find a camping spot!
9:46am leaving jakes. little bit behind schedule. that seems odd. us behind schedule? off to maine to go CAMPING!!!!!!! yayayayyayyaya! so excited.
11:40am we're in maine already. not sure how that happened. got here pretty quickly. we're at 7,540 miles and its 60 degrees. WHAT? pretty much freezing. just stopped to get my second redbull of the morning and firework sparklers. why not? now off to find a camping spot!
2:03pm well its negative 8 degrees and pouring rain here. i guess we should have checked the weather forecast for maine and not just assume since this week in brooklyn was going to be sunny and warm, the whole east coast would be. we're retarded. we know. decided to get lobster here and go camping in vermont. in hopes that its not raining there too. "excuse me" i look over and this lady is trying to get into her shiny new bmw. oh im sorry...i was just on my hands and knees searching the car for pennies, nickles and dimes trying to add up to $3.00 for parking. no worries. we found enough. we're finally going to get this lobster. yay.
2:57pm just got done eating the lobster. thing was HUGE. a bit scary but really good. i only like the claw and tail though. the middle part with guts all over it was disgusting. after finishing the lobster we tried to put him back together again. sometimes i really wonder how old we are. off to vermont. green mountain national forest ... i think? 
3:19pm another redbull and ring pop! grape! best one of all! candy makes me way too excited for my own well being. passed a surf shop and thought we warped back to california for a second. surfshops and surfboards always put a smile on my face :)
4:32pm somewhere in new hampshire. not sure if we're going the right way. raining still. driving til the rain stops so we can set up camp. 7,628.9 miles. 59 degrees. omaha by counting crows is playing. feels like we're back in the middle of america. ahhh love it. we're not though. we're in new hampshire. we can make believe though.
5:24pm well how the heck did the 101 just turn into a dead end? where ARE we? rain seems like it might be stopping. our lives are jokes. dead end. 7,672.9 miles. 61 degrees. 2 degrees warmer than before. sweet. do i hear 65? 65? .... how about 70? 70 sold to the two freezing girls not knowing where the hell they are going. if only weather were an auction. id be more broke than i already am. 
5:31pm still at the dead end in the process of trying to take a picture i lost the ipod controller..again. after much struggling, finally got it. also put our lantern together during this as well because i thought having the latern on still in broad daylight would help us find the controller faster. it didnt. but it saved us from putting the latern together in the dark.
5:36pm still here. why?
5:41pm blue skies and back on track. thank god.
6:36pm getting off the 101 and entering the unknown....taking a path to who knows where.... a little scared but excited to see what we may find
6:40pm well that was lame. it was a dirt road leading to home in the woods. cool story. we did however see some white horses which was cool. and a ups truck. sweet. moving on...
7:26pm vermont welcome sign. 7,744.5 miles. 66 degrees. warming up. im tired. 
7:55pm well, its raining here in vermont now. guess we left maine for no reason...trying to figure out where to go. ps i accidently mistook a wooden moose for a real one.
8:05pm still raining.
9:22pm well it stopped raining in vermont and we were getting very close to the campground in a town called durkas. we got about 5 feet from into the town near the campsite and what do we see but a huge circus tent in the middle of some sketchy field. it was named 'circus smurkas' that was it for us...no way are we camping in a town called durkas near something as scary as circus smurkas. dont feel like camping with clowns tonight. sorry. new plan. we're driving to lake george. we'll be safe there. im glad camping in maine turned into driving to lake george. oh boy. 7,815.4 miles. 58 degrees. oh no its getting cold again. sweet. 
9:39pm after changing and cleaning out the car in a parking lot we're finally on our way to lake george.
11:04pm made it to lake george. not sure how. or why. but we're here. stopped at a valero (thought those were only in california, guess not) getting a few beers then finally FINALLY finding a campground to camp at. jesus.
11:12pm i think we're set. cooler. check. ice. check. 12 pack. check. 2 coozies that say lake george. check. 2 fish nets. check. a coloring book. check. are we missing anything else? 'man i need a beer'-erin just stated. yea i think we both do. holy cow.
12:00am exactly. we found...um...a place to 'camp out' we are sitting under a boating dock with our beers, ipod player and lantern of course. this may lead us into a night in jail. we'll see.
12:18ami forgot. we saw a boat called 'the minne-ha-ha" reminded us of our trip into minnesota. made us laugh again. 
12:48am just saw a boating patrol. kind of forgot those existed. hope they don't see us. oh no.
sometime around 1:00am "so should we go to sleep or just stay up and leave at like 5am?" as soon as this question came out of my mouth it was proven by both erin and myself that what we were doing was absolutely absurd. we are freezing surrounded by bugs being eaten alive in a private boating dock. we could stay the night but i think we have had enough adventures... lets not push our luck. we both decided to get back in the car and just travel the last 40 miles to albany and sleep in beds......
ps. at least we had our lantern.
slight intermission from the roadtrip; albany & brooklyn
june 29, 2009 through july 2, 2009after pulling into where my parents live and sneaking around the corner, trying to make all of their neighbors be quiet to try to surprise them...my mom had looked out the window and seen the whole thing happen. now im not sure if she ran down the stairs or jumped out the window because she was down there within a matter of 2 seconds. super woman? perhaps. then followed my dad. they were EXTREMELY surprised! plan worked. we were excited. but little did i know I would be in for a surprise. out walks my two cousins; amanda & lyndsey and my aunt! best surprise eeeeeeever! at this point i think the whole 'neighborhood' was out gathering around meeting and greeting and whatnot. after being on the road for over a month it was a little overwhelming so we headed upstairs. the next few days were very relaxing and also very fun, filled with amazing food, good stories, and awesome margaritas! the entertainment of my dad trying to turn off the smoke detectors was also one of the funniest things ive seen in a while. coming to albany was a good choice. it was just what we needed. by the fourth day we felt re-cooped enough to get back on the road and head BACK to brooklyn. we do everything out of order with no sense of direction and no plan of action. its the way to live though i swear. nothing can go wrong when you have no plans.
july 2, 2009
12:30pm leaving albany and going back to brooklyn. the car is so empty. its so weird. we bought a tent yesterday for our adventure in maine. so excited for everything and the fourth is on saturday...yay!
3:40pm stopping in a town called ho-ho-kus to eat. the name of this town is slightly terrifying but i'll go with it.... we're in new jersey? how and when did we get to jersey? more importantly WHY are we here again?oh god...
4:37pm we're almost to brooklyn, make this rain stop nowwwwww.
6:08pm easypass. not paid. account low. yep we're back to this again. earlier we went through one that wasn't even an easy pass, didn't stop and looked back to see the lady's head sticking outside the window. almost to brooklyn...didnt i say this 2 hours ago?....damn traffic.....ahhh
6:23pm in chinatown. last time i checked this was not in the agenda. where ARE we.
6:52pm lost in a park. lost in the damn park right next to my sisters house. we literally can't get out.
6:56pm still lost in the park because the gps can't even save us. its telling us to take turns into trees. what is going onnn.
7:17pmwe found parking right away. right next to my sisters apartment. sweet. as soon as we pulled in the spot, it starts pouring. of course it does. why wouldn't it? so now we are relaxing in the car til it stops...or at least calms down. this is FUN. cmon!!!!
7:27pm still pouring. why? please make this stop. can the subway station come to us? rain rain go away
sometime after 8 and before midnight: finally stopped pouring and we were able to book it to the subway. with little direction we found jeffs house where my sister and everyone were. i did however get out of the subway and try to hail a cab to the address when the cab driver said we were only 1 block away. oops. played some games and got a little competitive like i usually do with games (especially trivia- i have to know everything before everyone!). finally called it a night....thank god, we had a yankee game to attend to the following day. yankee game was fun, and hot. we won. of course we did.
fourth of july my parents had came down to brooklyn to celebrate the fourth of july. me and erin found ourselves in the kitchen cutting apples and limes. probably not a weird sentence to most people. but me and erin's fourth of julys usually consist of waking up @ 5:30am, in the kitchen making jello shots and being a little intoxicated by noon...if not earlier. so this was VERY strange. but it was nice. nice to remember the fourth of july for once. the past few years our calendars have been july 1st, july 2nd, july 3rd, july 5th. i feel a few days younger since i got that day back that i normally miss! we had a great bbq and walked through the park where i was complaining the whole time like a little baby because i just couldn't do it. i had no energy to walk through a park. im glad there was some entertainment along the way that kept the walk interesting. after the bbq we ventured on the rooftop of my sisters apartment where we got to see every surrounding states fireworks go off. it was awesome. my mom had about 20 panic attacks though every time we got "too close" to the edge. "too close" to her is roughly 25 feet from the edge, give or take. chill OUT. (sorry ma). after fireworks we came inside to just watch the rest on tv and play catch phrase. i once again had to know every answer and try to be the best! all in all brooklyn was a great time...it always is. good company and good drinks can never not be a good time, eh? but once again we've had enough relaxation and we are ready to hit the road again.
july 6, 2009
10:53am leaving brooklyn and back on the road again. before heading to boston we have to get the oil changed for the third time this trip. we're at 7,334.8 miles. its 75 degrees out and sunny-yay!
3:14pm we're in providence, ri. of course we aren't in boston. change of plans as always. waiting for jake to get home. in the mean time finding some food. we're starving. super nice out. providence is cute.
sometime after 5:30pm after guzzling every drink that was on the menu plus a pitcher of john dalys its time to go to jakes. surprisingly we are barely buzzed. not really sure the explanation for that one.
later that night we went out for a little while with jake, his roommate, and a few of their friends...it was fun times. night ended early because me and erin "wanted to go to bed" remember that trick we do? somehow convinced jake to leave the bar and go get food with us. huge pitas. thankfully im not a huge fan of pitas so when we got home to eat it i only had about a bite or two before i realized i was just drunk and eating what would taste like cardboard any other given time of the day. good night. we have a long day ahead of us tomorrow.....camping trip up in maine.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
how the hell are we in new york right now?
june 25, 2009
12:21pm i just asked erin what the date was and she replies, dead serious; "oh yea, i forgot the date changed" yea erin. just because WE lost one night of sleep and think two days was one, does not mean everyone else in the world did as well. woke up at 9:30am. i thought my head was going to explode. any other way than straight forward my eyes looked i felt throbbing pain. its really not the feeling you want to wake up to after being awake for nearly 2 days straight the day prior. i was laying in bed trying to force myself to fall asleep last night (worst thing to do, ps) when my sister texted me. this is at 12:23am last night, which was putting me at 42 hours of being awake. i told her my problem, not being able to sleep & she texts me saying, "just don't "try" to sleep. lay down. count your breath til you hit 1,000. just rest" when i read it i almost died laughing. 1,000? as dumb as this sounded i was desperate so there i was in bed, counting to 1,000. not even sheep. just numbers. 1, 2, 3... well i only made it to about 180 or so. it really works. i would dose off and then realize i was still counting and i swear my order of numbers at around 180 went as followed: 180, 187, 182, 180?, 180?, 182....finally fell asleep. i can count past 180 in real life. now we are leaving for baltimore, md since the plan of going to virginia beach got scratched due to lack of sleep & insanity. ah. having another red bull. the one i had this morning, WHILE, yes, while...taking a shower clearly wasn't enough.
1:39pm stopped to get gas. beef jerky and yet another redbull. decided to get the double sized one. its been an hour on the road and i am already on my 3rd, sort of 4th since its a double redbull. most people's bodies are made up of 90% water. i swear my ratio has gotta be 15%water 75% energy drink. probably not the healthiest of things. back on the road. 92 degrees. and we only have around 40 miles til we hit 6,000 miles. holy shit.
2:15pm 6,000 miles somewhere in north carolina. ps. every year growing up we would go to myrtle beach, sc. before we reached south carolina we would see signs reading "SOUTH OF THE BORDER". it always looked so fun and exciting but we never pulled off to see it, we just would get really excited to see the signs and drive past it. well. finally saw "south of the border" i wish i never have. all of my childhood dreams were ruined because this place was the biggest dump i have ever seen. run down hotels, broken carnival rides, dead clowns....well the dead clowns part isn't true but it might as well be. so disappointed.
3:02pm just put an S and a U to replace the N & R to make it to be south carolina instead of north since we missed that sign. we are not normal, fully aware.
3:18pm leaving the welcome to virginia sign. off to maryland.
6:10pm maybe change of plans? might go see my cousin tim in dc for the night and then head to baltimore in the morning. just talked to sonya. guess we're going to dc. ps. michael jackson just died. of a heart attack? what the heck?
6:42pm apparently farrah faucet and ed mcmahon died too. seriously what is happening. stuck in traffic. accident ahead. oh no.
9:17pm washington dc is the most confusing city to try to get around in. it just took over an hour to drive in circles to find a parking spot. i really hope we are in the correct area where my cousin is..never a dull moment that's for sure.
9:39pm still sitting in the car, not really knowing what to do or where to go and then remembered we have jack in the car. jack daniels! we weren't going to open it until we got to new york but drastic times call for drastic measures. thankfully we parked across the street from a vendor that had diet cokes. it took about 4 trips to finally get the diet cokes because they didn't take card and then i didnt have enough cash but after finally finding enough change in the car we were able to get one diet coke to split. so here we are parked on the side of Constitution St in washington dc, drinking jack & cokes. what have our lives turned into...tim please call soon!
june 26, 2009
8:24am dead. actually dead. not alive. have to drive to baltimore. not sure how this is going to happen. seriously? i can't. i really cannot do this right now. all i want to do is sleep. ahhhhhhhhhhh.
10:19am well we made it exactly .8 of a mile. not even a complete mile. had to pull over next to a lake right near the lincoln/washington memorials. if we had any shame at all at the beginning of the trip it is ALL gone at this point. we took a blanket and a pillow, yes this is in front of tourists and local dc citizens walking by us. . . and we slept. right next to the lake. it actually turned out to be the best idea in the world. we both feel so much better now and are ready to finally continue on to baltimore to see my most favorite person in the entire world sonya!!!! its been two long horrible years since ive seen her so i am sooo excited!!!
11:20am well we're finally FINALLY on our way. seriously? shell gas stop. scrambled eggs, toast, coffee, tea and oj. ha ha. yea right. red bulls and beef jerky, we're ready to go.
12:05pm made it back to dc. we're going to walk around for a bit and then possibly drive down to brooklyn to surprise my sister for the night. still up in the air. i just realized my bag is ridiculously heavy so i am about to pull a few unnecessary things out; in the process of doing so i realized what exactly is in my bag: 3 empty sunglass cases, a water bottle, a san diego charger bead, 3 pairs of earrings, a broken bracelet, makeup, the single key, my 'john' nascar name tag, the orieoles baseball game ticket, nintendo mint case, receipts, bottle of vikodin, makeup, an empty mini wallet, my actual wallet, a clutch, a DREAMCATCHER, a SLINGSHOT (seriously? the reasons why these 2 items in particular were in my bag i will never even know the answer), a pack of hair ties, headphones, a belt, and two hot sauces. i am clearly prepared for any occasion or tragic event that might occur. ridiculous.
2:44pm done "sightseeing". our version was awesome. the first sightseeing picture we took was me in a tree. we saw a few sculptures and decided to get drinks. these drinks were actually the best drinks either of us have ever tried. we must have been in lousiana for one too many hours because we actually asked for one to go. we forgot you can't actually carry around booze on the streets in any other normal place. oops. tried to find the lincoln memorial but got frustrated and left. decided to go to brooklyn for the night and surprise my sister. she'll be stoked.
4:13pm just stopped at a rest area. best day in america. they had a dip'n'dots VENDING MACHINE. most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life. i obviously got one. soo good! about 150 miles away from new york. ps. what the hell are we doing?
12:21pm i just asked erin what the date was and she replies, dead serious; "oh yea, i forgot the date changed" yea erin. just because WE lost one night of sleep and think two days was one, does not mean everyone else in the world did as well. woke up at 9:30am. i thought my head was going to explode. any other way than straight forward my eyes looked i felt throbbing pain. its really not the feeling you want to wake up to after being awake for nearly 2 days straight the day prior. i was laying in bed trying to force myself to fall asleep last night (worst thing to do, ps) when my sister texted me. this is at 12:23am last night, which was putting me at 42 hours of being awake. i told her my problem, not being able to sleep & she texts me saying, "just don't "try" to sleep. lay down. count your breath til you hit 1,000. just rest" when i read it i almost died laughing. 1,000? as dumb as this sounded i was desperate so there i was in bed, counting to 1,000. not even sheep. just numbers. 1, 2, 3... well i only made it to about 180 or so. it really works. i would dose off and then realize i was still counting and i swear my order of numbers at around 180 went as followed: 180, 187, 182, 180?, 180?, 182....finally fell asleep. i can count past 180 in real life. now we are leaving for baltimore, md since the plan of going to virginia beach got scratched due to lack of sleep & insanity. ah. having another red bull. the one i had this morning, WHILE, yes, while...taking a shower clearly wasn't enough.
1:39pm stopped to get gas. beef jerky and yet another redbull. decided to get the double sized one. its been an hour on the road and i am already on my 3rd, sort of 4th since its a double redbull. most people's bodies are made up of 90% water. i swear my ratio has gotta be 15%water 75% energy drink. probably not the healthiest of things. back on the road. 92 degrees. and we only have around 40 miles til we hit 6,000 miles. holy shit.2:15pm 6,000 miles somewhere in north carolina. ps. every year growing up we would go to myrtle beach, sc. before we reached south carolina we would see signs reading "SOUTH OF THE BORDER". it always looked so fun and exciting but we never pulled off to see it, we just would get really excited to see the signs and drive past it. well. finally saw "south of the border" i wish i never have. all of my childhood dreams were ruined because this place was the biggest dump i have ever seen. run down hotels, broken carnival rides, dead clowns....well the dead clowns part isn't true but it might as well be. so disappointed.
3:02pm just put an S and a U to replace the N & R to make it to be south carolina instead of north since we missed that sign. we are not normal, fully aware.3:18pm leaving the welcome to virginia sign. off to maryland.
6:10pm maybe change of plans? might go see my cousin tim in dc for the night and then head to baltimore in the morning. just talked to sonya. guess we're going to dc. ps. michael jackson just died. of a heart attack? what the heck?
6:42pm apparently farrah faucet and ed mcmahon died too. seriously what is happening. stuck in traffic. accident ahead. oh no.
9:17pm washington dc is the most confusing city to try to get around in. it just took over an hour to drive in circles to find a parking spot. i really hope we are in the correct area where my cousin is..never a dull moment that's for sure.
9:39pm still sitting in the car, not really knowing what to do or where to go and then remembered we have jack in the car. jack daniels! we weren't going to open it until we got to new york but drastic times call for drastic measures. thankfully we parked across the street from a vendor that had diet cokes. it took about 4 trips to finally get the diet cokes because they didn't take card and then i didnt have enough cash but after finally finding enough change in the car we were able to get one diet coke to split. so here we are parked on the side of Constitution St in washington dc, drinking jack & cokes. what have our lives turned into...tim please call soon!june 26, 2009
8:24am dead. actually dead. not alive. have to drive to baltimore. not sure how this is going to happen. seriously? i can't. i really cannot do this right now. all i want to do is sleep. ahhhhhhhhhhh.
10:19am well we made it exactly .8 of a mile. not even a complete mile. had to pull over next to a lake right near the lincoln/washington memorials. if we had any shame at all at the beginning of the trip it is ALL gone at this point. we took a blanket and a pillow, yes this is in front of tourists and local dc citizens walking by us. . . and we slept. right next to the lake. it actually turned out to be the best idea in the world. we both feel so much better now and are ready to finally continue on to baltimore to see my most favorite person in the entire world sonya!!!! its been two long horrible years since ive seen her so i am sooo excited!!!
11:20am well we're finally FINALLY on our way. seriously? shell gas stop. scrambled eggs, toast, coffee, tea and oj. ha ha. yea right. red bulls and beef jerky, we're ready to go.june 27, 2009
10:26am leaving baltimore and going back to dc today to walk around. baltimore was a ton of fun. i got to see my bestest friend in america and i love all of her friends there! we went to an amazing seafood restaurant down the street from her apartment and then went to an orieoles game later in the evening. before we went to the game we went to this bar (if i can even call it that) it was the size of about 90 bars put together. it was called pickles. i know why they call it that. its seriously like we are all pickles in a jar. you can barely even move! its crazy! but fun! we weren't at the game very long but we did find a nice cop & a nascar worker; i was able to convince them to let me actually sit in the nascar car, get a name tag (john was my name for this adventure) and wear the helmet. also convinced the cop there to let me where HIS hat and let erin play with the walkie talkie. the things we get away with i'll never understand why we get away with them or how they even occur. but its always a good time. well back to dc and i have no idea where we'll wind up after that..well see.
12:05pm made it back to dc. we're going to walk around for a bit and then possibly drive down to brooklyn to surprise my sister for the night. still up in the air. i just realized my bag is ridiculously heavy so i am about to pull a few unnecessary things out; in the process of doing so i realized what exactly is in my bag: 3 empty sunglass cases, a water bottle, a san diego charger bead, 3 pairs of earrings, a broken bracelet, makeup, the single key, my 'john' nascar name tag, the orieoles baseball game ticket, nintendo mint case, receipts, bottle of vikodin, makeup, an empty mini wallet, my actual wallet, a clutch, a DREAMCATCHER, a SLINGSHOT (seriously? the reasons why these 2 items in particular were in my bag i will never even know the answer), a pack of hair ties, headphones, a belt, and two hot sauces. i am clearly prepared for any occasion or tragic event that might occur. ridiculous. 2:44pm done "sightseeing". our version was awesome. the first sightseeing picture we took was me in a tree. we saw a few sculptures and decided to get drinks. these drinks were actually the best drinks either of us have ever tried. we must have been in lousiana for one too many hours because we actually asked for one to go. we forgot you can't actually carry around booze on the streets in any other normal place. oops. tried to find the lincoln memorial but got frustrated and left. decided to go to brooklyn for the night and surprise my sister. she'll be stoked.4:13pm just stopped at a rest area. best day in america. they had a dip'n'dots VENDING MACHINE. most amazing thing i have ever seen in my life. i obviously got one. soo good! about 150 miles away from new york. ps. what the hell are we doing?8:05pm just got to brooklyn. i called my sister to see what she was doing to try to surprise her. i told her there was a huge rainbow and she should go out and see it. she asked me where i was and i told her i had no idea and i had to go. im really bad at surprising people. . . or maybe i wasnt. she later told me she got up from her couch, looked outside because she thought we were there but all she saw was an old man. she said me telling her there wasn't a rainbow outside wasn't the thing that made her think anything weird, it was me saying i didnt know where i was that did. 10 minutes later we arrived at her house and she was SO surprised and SO happy! mission accomplished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sometime around 10:00pm we hopped in the cab. i looked in the front seat area. there is a BABY suctioned to the window. not a real one, clearly, but still. scariest thing in the world. the cab driver had no explanation to what it was or why it was there. thank god the cab trip was 2 blocks. scaaaaary.
sometime around midnight me & erin once again can't hang. we had to go home. left everyone at the bar and somehow found our way back to my sisters apartment. erin passed out right away but all i could think about was pizza. walked about 10 blocks and finally found some. YES! got a calzone and 4 slices. by the time i got back home, erin woke up and was in the mood for pizza too. no ranch so we settled for tartar sauce and italian dressing. the things you will settle for when your drunk is sometimes disturbing.
june 28, 2009
12:36pm 'try to be here by 1:00pm' ali told us hours ago. that gives us exactly 24 minutes to make it from brooklyn to philly. pretty positive that isn't going to happen. on the road again. of course.
3:07pm in philly with ali! yay!
june 29, 2009
2:23pm a month ago we left. crazy. leaving philly and going to albany for a couple days to regroup and get our things together. heading to brooklyn again on thursday and continuing up north after the 4th of july. will we ever get to albany and stay in albany? probably not. traveling america is just way too much fun.
2:23pm a month ago we left. crazy. leaving philly and going to albany for a couple days to regroup and get our things together. heading to brooklyn again on thursday and continuing up north after the 4th of july. will we ever get to albany and stay in albany? probably not. traveling america is just way too much fun.
4:15pm red bulls give you wings. red bull 5 hour energies give you an engine.
7:00pm 7,000 miles EXACTLY we are in albany. this is the weirdest feeling in the world. how the hell did we make it here? i dont understand.............going to surprise my parents :) YAY!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
who needs sleep these days?
still june 23, 2009
8 or 9:37pm (not sure w/the time change and all) stopping to get subway (energy..we'll need it) decided to drive through the night until we get close to savannah ga. it should be close to sunrise by then. sleep on the beach for a few hours (saving $ by not staying in a hotel tonight) and then continuing on. hopefully this plan works. at least we still have a few more adderall to last us through the night.
12:14am pumped more gas because the last shell we were at was complete mayhem. after watching/slightly being mesmerized by the lightning for 180 miles we pulled off to a shell to get gas. im not even sure if we can even consider this stop a 'gas filling stop'. to put this into better perspective; everything im about to write happened all withing 35 seconds. i went to finally change into sweats (which i had been dying to do for 4 hours now) and when i went into the bathroom the door slammed behind me and i got startled thinking it was thunder. i opened the door and realized it wasn't thunder and went back in to find a HUGE mouse so i said screw it and left again. then heard REAL thunder and all of a sudden a torrential downpour rainstorm-hurricane occurred at the exact same moment this happened a hydrolic pimped out ghetto buik rolls up with four dudes with grills. legit grills. metal grills in their mouths and were being obnoxious. erin got so scared she pulled out the gas pump mid pump and yelled at me to get in the car and speed. i, like an idiot, listened. since i accidentally got back on the interstate heading west instead of east and erin, still in a panic told me to turn the lights off and take the next exit without using a blinker. she was convinced they were following us and actually said "what if they pull up next to us.....and try to show us....their GRILLS" i couldn't help but burst out laughing. seriously erin? finally "lost them" and got back on track. heading east and the storm got out of control. i seriously couldn't see shit but was trying to drive as slowly and safely as possible without showing any sign of fear because erin was still in a panic and could still not breathe. "this is just all too much for me at one time" i slightly felt bad but was dying laughing in my head. i'm usually the baby and she is the one smacking me in the head to shut up. clearly she experienced her first pouring rain storm. onto georgia. here we come. another adderall and splitting a red bull trying to make it through the night.
12:35am just got pulled over for the second time this trip. once again we're both dying laughing because this is the funniest thing ever. he comes up to the window and tells me i was going 65 in a 45 and then asks where we're going. at this point who the hell knows where we're going. i tell him we're trying to get to georgia and that we were coming from new orleans. he then looks in the car and says "looks like you guys have everything in there but your kitchen sink" i laughed and said 'sorry i am retarded' and he leaves to his car, comes back (a lot faster than the first time we got pulled over) and says we're good to go with just a warning. SWEET. another warning? this is amazing. i am beginning to love cops. i said thank you soooo much and i also told him i loved him. slightly inappropriate. oops.
3:45am yes. still awake. stopped to get yet another red bull, water and beef jerky. im still not tired. neither is erin. this is amazing. almost sunrise (i think) cant wait. yay.
4:50am still going strong! almost on the 17 N (coast highway) so we're excited about that. almost light out ps. is georgia a state? clearly we dont know. we entered in the dark. left in the dark. never got a picture of the welcome state. damnittttt...
6:11am sun is out and we are almost to our beach.
8 or 9:37pm (not sure w/the time change and all) stopping to get subway (energy..we'll need it) decided to drive through the night until we get close to savannah ga. it should be close to sunrise by then. sleep on the beach for a few hours (saving $ by not staying in a hotel tonight) and then continuing on. hopefully this plan works. at least we still have a few more adderall to last us through the night.
12:14am pumped more gas because the last shell we were at was complete mayhem. after watching/slightly being mesmerized by the lightning for 180 miles we pulled off to a shell to get gas. im not even sure if we can even consider this stop a 'gas filling stop'. to put this into better perspective; everything im about to write happened all withing 35 seconds. i went to finally change into sweats (which i had been dying to do for 4 hours now) and when i went into the bathroom the door slammed behind me and i got startled thinking it was thunder. i opened the door and realized it wasn't thunder and went back in to find a HUGE mouse so i said screw it and left again. then heard REAL thunder and all of a sudden a torrential downpour rainstorm-hurricane occurred at the exact same moment this happened a hydrolic pimped out ghetto buik rolls up with four dudes with grills. legit grills. metal grills in their mouths and were being obnoxious. erin got so scared she pulled out the gas pump mid pump and yelled at me to get in the car and speed. i, like an idiot, listened. since i accidentally got back on the interstate heading west instead of east and erin, still in a panic told me to turn the lights off and take the next exit without using a blinker. she was convinced they were following us and actually said "what if they pull up next to us.....and try to show us....their GRILLS" i couldn't help but burst out laughing. seriously erin? finally "lost them" and got back on track. heading east and the storm got out of control. i seriously couldn't see shit but was trying to drive as slowly and safely as possible without showing any sign of fear because erin was still in a panic and could still not breathe. "this is just all too much for me at one time" i slightly felt bad but was dying laughing in my head. i'm usually the baby and she is the one smacking me in the head to shut up. clearly she experienced her first pouring rain storm. onto georgia. here we come. another adderall and splitting a red bull trying to make it through the night.
12:35am just got pulled over for the second time this trip. once again we're both dying laughing because this is the funniest thing ever. he comes up to the window and tells me i was going 65 in a 45 and then asks where we're going. at this point who the hell knows where we're going. i tell him we're trying to get to georgia and that we were coming from new orleans. he then looks in the car and says "looks like you guys have everything in there but your kitchen sink" i laughed and said 'sorry i am retarded' and he leaves to his car, comes back (a lot faster than the first time we got pulled over) and says we're good to go with just a warning. SWEET. another warning? this is amazing. i am beginning to love cops. i said thank you soooo much and i also told him i loved him. slightly inappropriate. oops.
3:45am yes. still awake. stopped to get yet another red bull, water and beef jerky. im still not tired. neither is erin. this is amazing. almost sunrise (i think) cant wait. yay.
4:50am still going strong! almost on the 17 N (coast highway) so we're excited about that. almost light out ps. is georgia a state? clearly we dont know. we entered in the dark. left in the dark. never got a picture of the welcome state. damnittttt...
6:11am sun is out and we are almost to our beach.
sometime around 7:00am-ish we finally get to where we think the beach would be. we were wrong. it was a private neighborhood where the guy watching the entrance explained to us how to get to the public beach. so we continue on in the direction he said. cannot find it for the life of us. at this point we both are about to die because we have been driving all night with no sleep. we NEED this beach. where ARE you. continue on, were lost for about 45 minutes and finally...something magical happened.... 
11:09am i dont even know how to explain this one. we just got back from a private beach that we somehow managed to get into because the guide felt so bad for us because it took us almost an hour to try to find a beach. this place was a palace and we of course felt like queens of the world. why wouldn't we? we had a private beach. when we were planning on driving all night and 'sleeping on the beach in the morning' we thought we were going to sleep on the sand which would have been no problem at all. at that point i wouldn't have cared if someone gave us a 10X10 cubicle of sand with ocean noises in the background. we just needed to sleep. this place had nice padded lawn chairs and umbrellas. seriously? where are we? how did we get here? do we ever have to leave? well we didn't even get any sleep but got to relax and now have a sweet tan. dolphins were swimming by and we also saw a SHARK--- ankle deep. mind you we stepped foot/ankle deep into the same water. ....a shark. so close to the shore. are you KIDDING me? not going in the atlantic ocean ever again thats for sure.
2:11pm still wide awake. still haven't slept. drank coffee. i think im going to drink a rockstar next. and then a redbull. and then probably another coffee and 15 adderal. gonna try to make it to virgina beach tonight. this is seriously insane. leave it to us to drive 22 hours and not sleep and continue to drive.
11:09am i dont even know how to explain this one. we just got back from a private beach that we somehow managed to get into because the guide felt so bad for us because it took us almost an hour to try to find a beach. this place was a palace and we of course felt like queens of the world. why wouldn't we? we had a private beach. when we were planning on driving all night and 'sleeping on the beach in the morning' we thought we were going to sleep on the sand which would have been no problem at all. at that point i wouldn't have cared if someone gave us a 10X10 cubicle of sand with ocean noises in the background. we just needed to sleep. this place had nice padded lawn chairs and umbrellas. seriously? where are we? how did we get here? do we ever have to leave? well we didn't even get any sleep but got to relax and now have a sweet tan. dolphins were swimming by and we also saw a SHARK--- ankle deep. mind you we stepped foot/ankle deep into the same water. ....a shark. so close to the shore. are you KIDDING me? not going in the atlantic ocean ever again thats for sure.
2:11pm still wide awake. still haven't slept. drank coffee. i think im going to drink a rockstar next. and then a redbull. and then probably another coffee and 15 adderal. gonna try to make it to virgina beach tonight. this is seriously insane. leave it to us to drive 22 hours and not sleep and continue to drive.2:59pm just spent three HOURS at piggly wiggly, a south carolina local grocery store, to get free internet. we both hit a state of delirium. before leaving and heading up north/east i decided to surprise erin with 8 redbulls & 2 huge pixie stix....we need all the energy we can get right now. good to go? lets hope so.
3:08pm still in the piggly wiggly parking lot. we have literally lost our minds. finished our pixi stix and a red bull in 2 seconds flat. could we get a ticket for being so sugar high? i hope not..
4:30pm i feel awake again, yay!....never got a picture with south carolina either oh my god we are on a really bad streak with missing these signs...getting north carolina for sure...
7:00pm we're about to die. need to stop. pulling over & staying the night at holiday inn. the only holiday i am going to be celebrating is sleep.
7:00pm we're about to die. need to stop. pulling over & staying the night at holiday inn. the only holiday i am going to be celebrating is sleep.10:30pm seriously? we are nuts. we are STILL awake. we've been awake now for 39 1/2 hours. its time for bed. i don't even want to know what tomorrow is going to feel like. we have to make it all the way to baltimore, md. we only made it through ONE state today. this is absolutely pathetic. good. night.
why head north when we can still head further down south?
june 20, 2009
1:14pm so. once again. we are wayyyy beyond schedule. i dont even know why we make plans. we never ever follow them. we were going to leave around 4:30-5:00am so we are now a good 9 hours late. awesome. high five to me & erin. on the road & off to nashville, tn.
1:54pm i literally can not even move. i had to make erin drive which i am actually depressed about because that means i didnt drive the WHOLE WAY. i finally made her pull over after 20 minutes because i couldn't stand the thought that she was in MY seat, in HER car. part of me thinks i should turn around and go back to get those 20 miles i missed but the dying part of me says forget it and move on. we're already 9 1/2 hours behind schedule we dont need to add another 30 minutes to that.....moving forward....
1:59pm someone is selling PIES in the middle of intersection. where are we? who does that?
3:38pm stopped @ shell. need to fill up the gas. also need rockstars. need adderal. need new eyeballs. perhaps a new liver while we're at. i'm exhausted. we were nearly sleeping earlier when a huge tire piece smacked the windshield. i thought we died. of course. i always think we're dying, dead, on fire, etc... erin clarified for me that we were both still alive so i continued to drive, a little shook up, but alive. thank god. we're almost 4,000 miles in (3820.5 as of right now) and we stopped going east & started going south. good plan. this is going to be one long trip that is for sure. anyways onto nashville. minh is going to kill us we're taking forever.
5:45pm buying KFC to have at the kentuky border. so ridiculous but so necessary. the mac & cheese i ordered was obviously also necessary. cow. moo. oops. almost to kansas (wow. as i type this out reading from the journal i realized how dumb i am. KENTUKY. not kansas. these damn K states.) its hot as shit i am melting.
7:23pm stupid kentuky welcome sign was on a bridge that we definitely could not stop on unless we wanted to get killed. we just spent 45 minutes looking for something, ANYTHING with "kentuky" on it. got lost @ university of louiville and finally settled for a picture eating our kfc chicken strips next to a kentuky derby poster plastered against some run down side of a building. whatever. at least it has the word kentuky in it. and cornol sanders even made the picture. off to nashville finally after that detour.
8:33pm just stopped to play with the big dino on the side of the highway. it was actually a bit scary to go up to because it looked like it could come to life at any second. thankfully it was a tyrannosaurus and they have small arms so even if it WERE to come to life it wouldn't be able to pick us up it would just run around looking like the big retard it is.
9:17pm finalllllllllllly made it to TN. we were going to take a picture with the welcome sign but as soon as i opened the door i heard 1,000 rattlesnakes and decided to go with erins first instinct and stay in the car. almost to minhs! yay!
10:03pm made it. pulling up to minhs
first bar minh tried to sign me & erin up for karaoke. when the 2 people before we were supposed to go were as good as professional singers we decided to book it. i looked in the mirror and realized i had pretty much broken out in hives and couldn't figure out what the hell had caused it until i realized it was probably the chocolate that was all over me earlier. thank god it went away shortly after noticing it appeared. i got lucky. since me & erin had got to nashville we had been talking about crawfish so we haddddd to get it. and we did. lots of em. about 900 of the little guys. drinking moonshine all day in the sun and then trying to eat crawfish is a really bad/amazing idea. 
nashville is a fun time but very very hot. we decided the tomorrow on our way out of town would be our sight seeing day!
june 22, 2009
10:30am just stopped at country music hall of fame. we were a little broke after the weekend so we didnt exactly go INSIDE. we just took pictures in front of the sign. so lame i know. trying to find the grand ole opry. yay. ps somewhere between yesterday and this morning we (we meaning ME.) managed to lose one of the car keys. thank god we have a spare and thank god erins arm is long & skinny enough to be able to fit inside the crack of the window where it was locked. or else we would have been staying in nashville a lot longer than we expected. almost leaving and with a slight change of plans we're continuing down SOUTH to new orleans. we were sitting on the deck and erin said she wanted to see the deep south. i shrugged my shoulders and said thats not a bad idea, im down. when i called my mom and told her we were going to go to louisiana instead of up north and she replied with 'alyson.....thats a really...GOOD idea.' i knew any decision we made from here on out was clearly a GOOD idea. thanks ma.
11:13am shell. rockstars. and beef jerky. clearly breakfast of champions. i think we're ready for louisiana. especially with the cowboy hat i stole in a drunken stooper last night. erin actually purchased hers. i just put mine on my head and walked out, along with a sling shot i also stole. im not usually a kleptomaniac but i had one too many drinks in me and apparently thought i was king tut and could do whatever i wanted. so with our cowboy hats on we really fit in now, adding in the fact we frequently are singing 'song song of the south sweet potato pie and i shut my mouth" yes we fit in for SURE. we would probably be better off just shutting our mouths. we are loving the south minus the 813 degree weather that is engulfing us.
11:18am just had to turn around and go BACK to shell. erin threw out the western side of the map in the atlas that we have been marking everywhere we've been. im going to kill her. but it is fun to watch her have to dig out of the trash can for it. alright she's found it. back on the road.
12:45pm got off exit that read "jack daniels distillery" we HAVE to go.
1:06pm finally here. took a 45 minute detour to get jack's house. it would have been nice if the sign had warned us it was 45 minutes away. all it said was "jack daniels-next right" uh. next right. then next left. then go up 98 stop signs. another. right. yea. it took forever to get here. but we're here so we're happy :)
1:23pm leaving jacks. we're on a first name basis now. now that i learned how he died i figured it was only appropriate to throw his last name out the window when talking about him. for those who don't know how he died, which is probably everyone, here is fun fact of the day: he died by kicking one of his safes in his house trying to get it open and got an infection in his foot, died a few days later. that sucks jack you should have just rubbed some whiskey on it im sure that would have made it better. we bought a bottle in memory of jack and his infected foot and also because we are alcoholics. back on the road & almost to alabama!
3:22pm 4,323.9 miles. just got to alabama. 96 degrees. the south is HOT. holy shit.
3:39pm filling up gas again. i think we were born to be travelers. we're really good at it. alright back on the road again.
4:30pm well once again erins stupid gps has led us to a starbucks. a deserted starbucks. is this a joke? i'm sure you are real sorry starbucks. next time you decide to relocate will you please notify the gps companies. thanks.
4:37pm found one. a real one. thats up and running. thank god.
5:32pm really right now? stopped to get kfc in alabama and the lady a) wouldn't even let me order more than one thing without trying to cut me off and stop the order @ mashed potatoes and b) was SO RUDE at the window. i am confused. why would you be rude? i hate rude people. smile why don't you. anyways. back to the road. i think we're close to mississippi.
6:58pm 4,585.5 miles, 94 degrees. at mississippi. rattlesnakes plus other scary weird noise making creatures is keeping us locked up in the car again & just taking the picture of the welcome sign without us in it. dont feel like dying in mississippi.....mississippi moon wont you keep on shining! cant believe we are here. what are we doing here again? about 3 hours until louisiana! yippee!
8:05pm gas stop. its SO hot out still. 88 degrees. seriously? continuing on... we're keeping ourselves entertained currently by making music videos. featuring us and only us. normal.
june 23, 2009
10:25am on our way to new orleans. we only have about 20 minutes since last night our adventure of trying to find a safe looking hotel brought us roughly 15 exits closer to new orleans than we had originally anticipated. its 99 degrees here right now, this is no joke. the south is serious about their heat. alright here we go. ps only 219 more miles til we hit 5,000 miles since leaving san diego. shouldn't we be 1/2 way across the atlantic ocean by now?
10:51am at the post office waiting for erin to get out. i guess post offices are busy everywhere in america. even lousiana. funny. bored though. here comes the story of the hurricane. just sitting here with bob dylan waiting.....waiting......erin where ARE YOU. i hope she didn't die in there. ill give it 5 more minutes then ill go check on her. too lazy to go now. i am a bad friend. so im sitting out here and there was a mercedes with the plate reading "big ed". my family calls my uncle big ed; mainly for the fact that hes about 8 feet tall but i wanted a picture so as i was zooming in and snapping a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE man walks out and towards the car. i half assed apologized and he just glared at me looking like he was going to KILL me. maybe erin should be worrying about me out here. holy cow. oh good here she comes, shes alive. off to new orleans.
11:06am gas fill up at shell. water. 2 rockstars. gobstoppers. GOBSTOPPERS? i forgot for a second that i am 23 years old now and no longer should be allowed to publicly get so excited about candy. im sure ill have 20 cavities and a few chipped teeth by the time im done with this box of wonderful candy goodness.
1:15pm just leaving bourbon street in new orleans. its so hot here. we ate the best crawfish in america. we're going to go see some more of new orleans and then head off east to florida and then up north to georgia. talked to our friend lauren earlier and she told us we had to go to this bar called florabama. you can drink while in two states. sounds amazing and unavoidable, we HAVE to go.
2:35pm after leaving bourbon st. we went into a few towns where you could still see all the damage hurricane katrina left. it is so sad to see places still so effected and untouched since the tradgety. its crazy to see all of these places that you read & heard about on the news, in real life. really say but an eye opener for sure. we left lousiana and stopped off at a NASA sight. unforunately it was closed today. i would have loved to go in the room where you can float. i told my dad i was going to the moon. all he said back was "make sure you bring a lot of food, they dont have much up there" knowing me & erin, us saying we are going to the moon next probably isn't even that hard to believe. anyways, off to florida.
3:20pm back in mississippi
3:54pm back in alabama---what the hell are we doing? honestly?
4:35pm 5,000 miles. 101 degrees. almost to florida. this is literally NUTS. erin just saw "florida beaches ahead" sign and says 'well theres something i never thought id see' haha. it so hot here too. and muggy and humid. i forgot how much i absolutely LOVE this weather. ha. ha. ha. oh man. humidity you are not my friend. almost to "FLORABAMA" for a nice cold beer. i need one right about now. im melting again.
5:10pm just got to florida. 90 degrees, cooling down a bit thank god. now trying to find this florabama bar oh boy..
5:54pm made it to florabama. thank GOD. almost died from a bolt of lightning on the way that was literally 2 feet from hitting us. but we made it. and its sunny over here. time for a beer. just one. we...i mean i, have to still drive later.
6:29pm just leaving florabama...thank you lauren! so cool! they have a toy-claw game with real lobsters in it. funniest/coolest thing ive ever seen! we drank one corona light each--- in TWO states at once. guess which states. ha. we also realized we've been to alamaba state line 3 times in the past two days. crazy. a little. we're continuing on EAST. across florida (well see how far we get).. seeing how once we hit tallahassee we lose an hour.
(first of all i would like to say happy yoyo pops day) i got him a card but of course forgot the most important part, well maybe two important parts. first of all i didn't fill it out and secondly i didn't mail it. i did however spend 10 minutes finding the perfect card and let him know that one existed and would be brought to new york upon my arrival (whenever that may be). all he said is to mention it in the blog. which is what this is. happy fathers day yoyo thanks for being the best yoyo in the world! aren't you glad you're going to have your ridiculous daughter back in your life without being 3,000 miles away?...yeah i thought not! see you soon!
moving on...
1:14pm so. once again. we are wayyyy beyond schedule. i dont even know why we make plans. we never ever follow them. we were going to leave around 4:30-5:00am so we are now a good 9 hours late. awesome. high five to me & erin. on the road & off to nashville, tn.
1:54pm i literally can not even move. i had to make erin drive which i am actually depressed about because that means i didnt drive the WHOLE WAY. i finally made her pull over after 20 minutes because i couldn't stand the thought that she was in MY seat, in HER car. part of me thinks i should turn around and go back to get those 20 miles i missed but the dying part of me says forget it and move on. we're already 9 1/2 hours behind schedule we dont need to add another 30 minutes to that.....moving forward....
1:59pm someone is selling PIES in the middle of intersection. where are we? who does that?
3:38pm stopped @ shell. need to fill up the gas. also need rockstars. need adderal. need new eyeballs. perhaps a new liver while we're at. i'm exhausted. we were nearly sleeping earlier when a huge tire piece smacked the windshield. i thought we died. of course. i always think we're dying, dead, on fire, etc... erin clarified for me that we were both still alive so i continued to drive, a little shook up, but alive. thank god. we're almost 4,000 miles in (3820.5 as of right now) and we stopped going east & started going south. good plan. this is going to be one long trip that is for sure. anyways onto nashville. minh is going to kill us we're taking forever.
5:45pm buying KFC to have at the kentuky border. so ridiculous but so necessary. the mac & cheese i ordered was obviously also necessary. cow. moo. oops. almost to kansas (wow. as i type this out reading from the journal i realized how dumb i am. KENTUKY. not kansas. these damn K states.) its hot as shit i am melting.
7:23pm stupid kentuky welcome sign was on a bridge that we definitely could not stop on unless we wanted to get killed. we just spent 45 minutes looking for something, ANYTHING with "kentuky" on it. got lost @ university of louiville and finally settled for a picture eating our kfc chicken strips next to a kentuky derby poster plastered against some run down side of a building. whatever. at least it has the word kentuky in it. and cornol sanders even made the picture. off to nashville finally after that detour.
8:33pm just stopped to play with the big dino on the side of the highway. it was actually a bit scary to go up to because it looked like it could come to life at any second. thankfully it was a tyrannosaurus and they have small arms so even if it WERE to come to life it wouldn't be able to pick us up it would just run around looking like the big retard it is.
9:17pm finalllllllllllly made it to TN. we were going to take a picture with the welcome sign but as soon as i opened the door i heard 1,000 rattlesnakes and decided to go with erins first instinct and stay in the car. almost to minhs! yay!
10:03pm made it. pulling up to minhs
nashville, tennesse
we arrived at her boss's downtown condo which was way too nice for someone like me to even stand in. we came in with the intent of going out to see downtown nashville. started drinking moonshine (southern alcohol which is about 180 proof and amazing) and before we knew it me & erin were passed out. oops. can we hang in ANY state besides california? we really are not living up to our reputation of fun party girls in any other state we visit. next day we spent all day at the pool they have on the rooftop. the view of downtown nashville from the top was amazing, you could seriously see everything! it was also a beautiful day out which made life even more amazing. we drank almost 5 bottles of moonshine which led to me turning into a chocolate disaster. the chocolate cake minh had bought erin for her birthday was put ALL OVER ME by erin & minh. since i was a bit tipsy this seemed like an amazing idea. finally realized i looked like a jackass (what else is new) washed up and somehow managed to make it downtown.
we arrived at her boss's downtown condo which was way too nice for someone like me to even stand in. we came in with the intent of going out to see downtown nashville. started drinking moonshine (southern alcohol which is about 180 proof and amazing) and before we knew it me & erin were passed out. oops. can we hang in ANY state besides california? we really are not living up to our reputation of fun party girls in any other state we visit. next day we spent all day at the pool they have on the rooftop. the view of downtown nashville from the top was amazing, you could seriously see everything! it was also a beautiful day out which made life even more amazing. we drank almost 5 bottles of moonshine which led to me turning into a chocolate disaster. the chocolate cake minh had bought erin for her birthday was put ALL OVER ME by erin & minh. since i was a bit tipsy this seemed like an amazing idea. finally realized i looked like a jackass (what else is new) washed up and somehow managed to make it downtown.
first bar minh tried to sign me & erin up for karaoke. when the 2 people before we were supposed to go were as good as professional singers we decided to book it. i looked in the mirror and realized i had pretty much broken out in hives and couldn't figure out what the hell had caused it until i realized it was probably the chocolate that was all over me earlier. thank god it went away shortly after noticing it appeared. i got lucky. since me & erin had got to nashville we had been talking about crawfish so we haddddd to get it. and we did. lots of em. about 900 of the little guys. drinking moonshine all day in the sun and then trying to eat crawfish is a really bad/amazing idea. nashville is a fun time but very very hot. we decided the tomorrow on our way out of town would be our sight seeing day!june 22, 2009
10:30am just stopped at country music hall of fame. we were a little broke after the weekend so we didnt exactly go INSIDE. we just took pictures in front of the sign. so lame i know. trying to find the grand ole opry. yay. ps somewhere between yesterday and this morning we (we meaning ME.) managed to lose one of the car keys. thank god we have a spare and thank god erins arm is long & skinny enough to be able to fit inside the crack of the window where it was locked. or else we would have been staying in nashville a lot longer than we expected. almost leaving and with a slight change of plans we're continuing down SOUTH to new orleans. we were sitting on the deck and erin said she wanted to see the deep south. i shrugged my shoulders and said thats not a bad idea, im down. when i called my mom and told her we were going to go to louisiana instead of up north and she replied with 'alyson.....thats a really...GOOD idea.' i knew any decision we made from here on out was clearly a GOOD idea. thanks ma.
11:13am shell. rockstars. and beef jerky. clearly breakfast of champions. i think we're ready for louisiana. especially with the cowboy hat i stole in a drunken stooper last night. erin actually purchased hers. i just put mine on my head and walked out, along with a sling shot i also stole. im not usually a kleptomaniac but i had one too many drinks in me and apparently thought i was king tut and could do whatever i wanted. so with our cowboy hats on we really fit in now, adding in the fact we frequently are singing 'song song of the south sweet potato pie and i shut my mouth" yes we fit in for SURE. we would probably be better off just shutting our mouths. we are loving the south minus the 813 degree weather that is engulfing us.
11:18am just had to turn around and go BACK to shell. erin threw out the western side of the map in the atlas that we have been marking everywhere we've been. im going to kill her. but it is fun to watch her have to dig out of the trash can for it. alright she's found it. back on the road.
12:45pm got off exit that read "jack daniels distillery" we HAVE to go.
1:06pm finally here. took a 45 minute detour to get jack's house. it would have been nice if the sign had warned us it was 45 minutes away. all it said was "jack daniels-next right" uh. next right. then next left. then go up 98 stop signs. another. right. yea. it took forever to get here. but we're here so we're happy :)
1:23pm leaving jacks. we're on a first name basis now. now that i learned how he died i figured it was only appropriate to throw his last name out the window when talking about him. for those who don't know how he died, which is probably everyone, here is fun fact of the day: he died by kicking one of his safes in his house trying to get it open and got an infection in his foot, died a few days later. that sucks jack you should have just rubbed some whiskey on it im sure that would have made it better. we bought a bottle in memory of jack and his infected foot and also because we are alcoholics. back on the road & almost to alabama!
3:22pm 4,323.9 miles. just got to alabama. 96 degrees. the south is HOT. holy shit.
3:39pm filling up gas again. i think we were born to be travelers. we're really good at it. alright back on the road again.
4:30pm well once again erins stupid gps has led us to a starbucks. a deserted starbucks. is this a joke? i'm sure you are real sorry starbucks. next time you decide to relocate will you please notify the gps companies. thanks.
4:37pm found one. a real one. thats up and running. thank god.5:32pm really right now? stopped to get kfc in alabama and the lady a) wouldn't even let me order more than one thing without trying to cut me off and stop the order @ mashed potatoes and b) was SO RUDE at the window. i am confused. why would you be rude? i hate rude people. smile why don't you. anyways. back to the road. i think we're close to mississippi.
6:58pm 4,585.5 miles, 94 degrees. at mississippi. rattlesnakes plus other scary weird noise making creatures is keeping us locked up in the car again & just taking the picture of the welcome sign without us in it. dont feel like dying in mississippi.....mississippi moon wont you keep on shining! cant believe we are here. what are we doing here again? about 3 hours until louisiana! yippee!
8:05pm gas stop. its SO hot out still. 88 degrees. seriously? continuing on... we're keeping ourselves entertained currently by making music videos. featuring us and only us. normal.
june 23, 2009
10:25am on our way to new orleans. we only have about 20 minutes since last night our adventure of trying to find a safe looking hotel brought us roughly 15 exits closer to new orleans than we had originally anticipated. its 99 degrees here right now, this is no joke. the south is serious about their heat. alright here we go. ps only 219 more miles til we hit 5,000 miles since leaving san diego. shouldn't we be 1/2 way across the atlantic ocean by now?
10:51am at the post office waiting for erin to get out. i guess post offices are busy everywhere in america. even lousiana. funny. bored though. here comes the story of the hurricane. just sitting here with bob dylan waiting.....waiting......erin where ARE YOU. i hope she didn't die in there. ill give it 5 more minutes then ill go check on her. too lazy to go now. i am a bad friend. so im sitting out here and there was a mercedes with the plate reading "big ed". my family calls my uncle big ed; mainly for the fact that hes about 8 feet tall but i wanted a picture so as i was zooming in and snapping a HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE man walks out and towards the car. i half assed apologized and he just glared at me looking like he was going to KILL me. maybe erin should be worrying about me out here. holy cow. oh good here she comes, shes alive. off to new orleans.
11:06am gas fill up at shell. water. 2 rockstars. gobstoppers. GOBSTOPPERS? i forgot for a second that i am 23 years old now and no longer should be allowed to publicly get so excited about candy. im sure ill have 20 cavities and a few chipped teeth by the time im done with this box of wonderful candy goodness.
1:15pm just leaving bourbon street in new orleans. its so hot here. we ate the best crawfish in america. we're going to go see some more of new orleans and then head off east to florida and then up north to georgia. talked to our friend lauren earlier and she told us we had to go to this bar called florabama. you can drink while in two states. sounds amazing and unavoidable, we HAVE to go.
2:35pm after leaving bourbon st. we went into a few towns where you could still see all the damage hurricane katrina left. it is so sad to see places still so effected and untouched since the tradgety. its crazy to see all of these places that you read & heard about on the news, in real life. really say but an eye opener for sure. we left lousiana and stopped off at a NASA sight. unforunately it was closed today. i would have loved to go in the room where you can float. i told my dad i was going to the moon. all he said back was "make sure you bring a lot of food, they dont have much up there" knowing me & erin, us saying we are going to the moon next probably isn't even that hard to believe. anyways, off to florida.
3:20pm back in mississippi
3:54pm back in alabama---what the hell are we doing? honestly?
4:35pm 5,000 miles. 101 degrees. almost to florida. this is literally NUTS. erin just saw "florida beaches ahead" sign and says 'well theres something i never thought id see' haha. it so hot here too. and muggy and humid. i forgot how much i absolutely LOVE this weather. ha. ha. ha. oh man. humidity you are not my friend. almost to "FLORABAMA" for a nice cold beer. i need one right about now. im melting again.
5:10pm just got to florida. 90 degrees, cooling down a bit thank god. now trying to find this florabama bar oh boy..
5:54pm made it to florabama. thank GOD. almost died from a bolt of lightning on the way that was literally 2 feet from hitting us. but we made it. and its sunny over here. time for a beer. just one. we...i mean i, have to still drive later.
6:29pm just leaving florabama...thank you lauren! so cool! they have a toy-claw game with real lobsters in it. funniest/coolest thing ive ever seen! we drank one corona light each--- in TWO states at once. guess which states. ha. we also realized we've been to alamaba state line 3 times in the past two days. crazy. a little. we're continuing on EAST. across florida (well see how far we get).. seeing how once we hit tallahassee we lose an hour.
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