june 12, 2009
12:11pm @ shell station. still in laramie. 18 missed calls and one text messege reading "bo, tried for 3 hours, sorry i am done' from my dad. last night i asked him to wake me up at 6:30am in hopes we would get our laundry done, pack/organize the car & be on the road by 8am. yea... that didn't exactly happen. after 13 shots; including my new favorite, a 'shot-ski', (an actual ski with a bunch of shots on it where people all take it at the same time: AMAZING!...i now have to figure out how to bring ski's w/me to every bar from now on), the plan of waking up that early was completely ruled out and out of the question. i of course got too drunk to tell my dad to forget trying to call me @ 6:30am. so of course 4 hours later we are finally on the road. off to south dakota, here we come, yay!
12:33am still here. still at the shell station. lost the remote control to the ipod. are you serious? it was JUST here. on my LAP. where the hell did it go. i can't do this. ... off we go....
1:46pm still have not found the controller. onto south dakota. i think we hit nebraska soon. i hear its boring. so excited.
3:07pm i see a hitch-hiker. sorry buddy, no room for ya.
4:00pm both me & erin feel like we are going to die. we should not have gone out last night. pulled over to lay down but the first time i did, a frog literally jumped in my face and the second time i laid down i realized i was surrounded by red ants and nearly died. this is horrible. actually horrible. this is NOT fun. nebraska, i am blaming this one on YOU.
6:25pm still in nebraska, not sure if we'll ever get out. we actually had to stop, pull off onto an exit and find something exciting to do. and something exciting is just what we found; GO CARTING! we once again turned into the 5 year old children that we love turning into, parked the car, ran out with our camera as well as the video camera and ran to buy 2 tickets, hopped into line and then got as i would like to describe it; verbally assaulted by the 18 year old guy running them. not only did he glare at us (i think he did anyway. he was wearing sunglasses so im not 100% sure but i can only imagine he was), yelling at us for forgetting to give him the second ticket and then having to fix my seat belt because i couldn't figure out how to put it on. sorry dude, i dont ride go-carts on a daily basis. relax. its NOT that big of a deal. just let two almost grown adults have fun and act like kids. we did have fun though. and off we are again, back on the road!
june 15, 2009
south dakota; finally got there after 10 long hours traveling, we finally reached south dakota; stayed with two friends, bj & derek. we had a blast! first night we went out to the bars; a little different than what i had imagined south dakota to be like. in my head i pictured a bunch of little bars, chill & westernish...nope. completely wrong....next day was so much fun. a day out on the lake on the boat! so so so much fun. i could live on a boat! love it! last day (today) i spent a good portion of the afternoon re-organizing the car which was a complete disaster. this was because the morning we left wyoming we were still so shitfaced the thought of 'packing' seemed so mind-boggling, we instead threw EVERYTHING, loose, unfolded, unclean, into any spot in the car it would fit. after giving me fifteen anxiety attacks between wyoming and the past 2 days in south dakota having it look like that i finally organized it. it took 2 1/2 hours to complete that task. so imagine what it looked like beforehand. so worth it though. i can finally breathe again. no longer are the tanktops mixed in with bathingsuit tops as well as ugg boots and sandals. everything has its own place. so much better. a little ocd i know but its so much easier. ill never let it get like that again. i also found the remote control to the ipod in the process of organizing so that was a p lus. anyways, after that whole fiasco we went bowling (i am becoming a fan of this sport; yes its a sport. when you wake up the next morning sore. that is considered a sport) then dinner on the lake & got back and made a bon fire. before we went outside bj & derek surprised me & erin and came out wearing those pjs that are full body & have patterns on it, little attached feet socks as well. i almost died. funniest thing ever. had some smores and re-lit the fire rougly 52 times because it kept going out. oh yea i also fell over the log and almost killed myself trying to roast marshmallows. all in all yankton, south dakota was a great time...off to see some more of america tomorrow morning.
june 16, 2009
7:36am am i reading the clock correctly? are we really 24 minutes AHEAD of schedule? this is nuts. this never happens. off to wisconsin, land of cheese. before we head there though we have to go back to the 'welcome to south dakota' sign. we didn't stop there on our way in the other night because we were convinced we were in a horror movie and thought we might get murdered. if you haven't personally driven through nebraska at 11pm you wouldn't understand. we have pepper spray, but i dont think that would have saved us. anyways, off to do that and then on the road again. we were going to drive straight to chicago but we want to stay in milwaukee and drink 'old milwaukees'. we are insane, we are fully aware of this. on we go ...or off we go?
7:58am gross. just leaving the s.dakota sign. smells like crap here. so gross. 2 minutes still ahead of schedule. good BYE nebraska forever. you'll never see my face again. (as you can see in the picture below i am clearly disgusted by these states)
9:25am just hit minnesota. its freezing and still gross out. where the hell is the sun? this is ridiculous. almost 3,000 miles, still nowhere near our final stop haha, speaking of haha we just crossed a town called minnehaha, made us laugh.
9:43am stopped to fill up at shell. erin got a coffee, i got a rockstar cause the monster i tried to drink earlier made me feel sick. i also got a $1 luck buck. lets see if i won..........didn't win, stupid.
10:37am we hit 3,000 miles a little while ago, about 60 miles into minnesota. we should be in new york by now. for some reason this doesn't surprise me that we are still 1/2 way across the country. i hope it gets nice out soon & i want to get out of this state asap....stopped to get waters...continuing on....
12:39pm still in minnesota. still raining. please. get. us. out. i am not enjoying this rain. adderall is making life a little bit better but not as awesome as i can imagine it with the sun shining down on us. almost to wisconsin...CHEEEEEEEESE. yay!
1:46pm just got pulled over @ 1:35pm to be exact. in minnesota. i would get pulled over in minnesota. just my luck. seriously? luckily the officer was extremely nice (and cute). when he came to the window me & erin were hysterically laughing, which made him sort of laugh as well...with us. telling you, he was a really cool cop. he asked for my drivers license and i handed it to him and asked him if i was speeding and how fast i was going. his response: "well...when i first met you, you were going about 80....then you started speeding up to about 86-90 once i clocked you" i am seriously the biggest idiot. i honestly didn't even see him behind me. i said sorry and told him we were just listening to music loudly and had to go to the bathroom really bad. honest. at least i didn't tell him i saw a ghost this time (which was still the truth when that had happened years ago) at least he didnt think i was on some sort of drug, he went back to his car and came back 6 minutes later and said we were good to go....with only a warning. SCORE! NO TICKET! HECK YEA! were only about 10 miles away from wisconsin ill make sure to stay at 70 mph until we get there. once we cross the state line i believe i am a-okay with new state police & new warnings. or at least that is what i am hoping because there is no way im staying at 70 mph the entire rest of the way, we'll NEVER get to new york.
2:16pm 2,222.00 (exactly) miles in. @ the wisconsin welcome sign. we made it. yay. about another 200 miles til milwaukee. weeee! im having cheese & beer for dinner.
3:55pm don't worry. we turned around at exit 55 to backtrack to exit 12, approx. 45 miles BACK WEST because 'CHEESE CASTLE" sounded beyond exciting. all i could picture was a huge castle made of real cheese; somewhat of a heaven for me. i love cheese. i pictured it like a willy wonka chocolate factory but a cheese version. there would be cheese bears and cheese canes, cheese drops and a river of flowing melted cheese that we could swim in. well this was NOT the case. just just pulled up and both of us are nearly in tears. one of my eyes is tearing due to the fact that i was completely mislead by the word 'castle' and my dreams were crushed and the other eye of mine was crying because i was laughing so hard. i had mixed emotions. this place is a fucking dump. yea, real castle. maybe a swiss cheese castle, a real hole in the wall. guess we're going in. this is seriously a fucking joke. disappointed but actually not surprised. these sort of things always happen to us.
4:06pm at least the cheese was good. we only had 3 flavors to choose from. we did however get a football cheese cutter. alright, back to to journey to milwaukee. never be deceived by cool words like castle. you'll just disappoint yourself in the end.
9:59pm me & erin have actually become queens of milwaukee, wisconsin. thank you triple a for getting us an awesome room at the hilton with two HUGE PLUSH beds. this probably doesn't seem THAT exciting to anyone else but to us, we feel like royalty right now haha. after living in a storage unit for 2 months and then a car for the past 3 weeks, this is the best thing ever! erin has once again turned the room into antarctica. not sure when we became polar bears but apparently somewhere along the trip we must have transformed ourselves from humans into them. guaranteed tomorrow morning she is going to need red-eyes and i am going to need to be rushed to the hospital to have blood pumped into my body due to hypothermia...AGAIN. i seriously can't feel my nose right now. we got done with a little work out earlier and now we are using the free wi-fi. obviously cannot live without the internet. pathetic i know but whatever. plan for tomorrow is drinking our old milwaukee beers at the milwaukee sign and then heading to chicago to see holly! yay! very very excited!!!!!
12:11pm @ shell station. still in laramie. 18 missed calls and one text messege reading "bo, tried for 3 hours, sorry i am done' from my dad. last night i asked him to wake me up at 6:30am in hopes we would get our laundry done, pack/organize the car & be on the road by 8am. yea... that didn't exactly happen. after 13 shots; including my new favorite, a 'shot-ski', (an actual ski with a bunch of shots on it where people all take it at the same time: AMAZING!...i now have to figure out how to bring ski's w/me to every bar from now on), the plan of waking up that early was completely ruled out and out of the question. i of course got too drunk to tell my dad to forget trying to call me @ 6:30am. so of course 4 hours later we are finally on the road. off to south dakota, here we come, yay!
12:33am still here. still at the shell station. lost the remote control to the ipod. are you serious? it was JUST here. on my LAP. where the hell did it go. i can't do this. ... off we go....
1:46pm still have not found the controller. onto south dakota. i think we hit nebraska soon. i hear its boring. so excited.
3:07pm i see a hitch-hiker. sorry buddy, no room for ya.
4:00pm both me & erin feel like we are going to die. we should not have gone out last night. pulled over to lay down but the first time i did, a frog literally jumped in my face and the second time i laid down i realized i was surrounded by red ants and nearly died. this is horrible. actually horrible. this is NOT fun. nebraska, i am blaming this one on YOU.
6:25pm still in nebraska, not sure if we'll ever get out. we actually had to stop, pull off onto an exit and find something exciting to do. and something exciting is just what we found; GO CARTING! we once again turned into the 5 year old children that we love turning into, parked the car, ran out with our camera as well as the video camera and ran to buy 2 tickets, hopped into line and then got as i would like to describe it; verbally assaulted by the 18 year old guy running them. not only did he glare at us (i think he did anyway. he was wearing sunglasses so im not 100% sure but i can only imagine he was), yelling at us for forgetting to give him the second ticket and then having to fix my seat belt because i couldn't figure out how to put it on. sorry dude, i dont ride go-carts on a daily basis. relax. its NOT that big of a deal. just let two almost grown adults have fun and act like kids. we did have fun though. and off we are again, back on the road!
june 15, 2009
south dakota; finally got there after 10 long hours traveling, we finally reached south dakota; stayed with two friends, bj & derek. we had a blast! first night we went out to the bars; a little different than what i had imagined south dakota to be like. in my head i pictured a bunch of little bars, chill & westernish...nope. completely wrong....next day was so much fun. a day out on the lake on the boat! so so so much fun. i could live on a boat! love it! last day (today) i spent a good portion of the afternoon re-organizing the car which was a complete disaster. this was because the morning we left wyoming we were still so shitfaced the thought of 'packing' seemed so mind-boggling, we instead threw EVERYTHING, loose, unfolded, unclean, into any spot in the car it would fit. after giving me fifteen anxiety attacks between wyoming and the past 2 days in south dakota having it look like that i finally organized it. it took 2 1/2 hours to complete that task. so imagine what it looked like beforehand. so worth it though. i can finally breathe again. no longer are the tanktops mixed in with bathingsuit tops as well as ugg boots and sandals. everything has its own place. so much better. a little ocd i know but its so much easier. ill never let it get like that again. i also found the remote control to the ipod in the process of organizing so that was a p lus. anyways, after that whole fiasco we went bowling (i am becoming a fan of this sport; yes its a sport. when you wake up the next morning sore. that is considered a sport) then dinner on the lake & got back and made a bon fire. before we went outside bj & derek surprised me & erin and came out wearing those pjs that are full body & have patterns on it, little attached feet socks as well. i almost died. funniest thing ever. had some smores and re-lit the fire rougly 52 times because it kept going out. oh yea i also fell over the log and almost killed myself trying to roast marshmallows. all in all yankton, south dakota was a great time...off to see some more of america tomorrow morning.
june 16, 2009
7:36am am i reading the clock correctly? are we really 24 minutes AHEAD of schedule? this is nuts. this never happens. off to wisconsin, land of cheese. before we head there though we have to go back to the 'welcome to south dakota' sign. we didn't stop there on our way in the other night because we were convinced we were in a horror movie and thought we might get murdered. if you haven't personally driven through nebraska at 11pm you wouldn't understand. we have pepper spray, but i dont think that would have saved us. anyways, off to do that and then on the road again. we were going to drive straight to chicago but we want to stay in milwaukee and drink 'old milwaukees'. we are insane, we are fully aware of this. on we go ...or off we go?
7:58am gross. just leaving the s.dakota sign. smells like crap here. so gross. 2 minutes still ahead of schedule. good BYE nebraska forever. you'll never see my face again. (as you can see in the picture below i am clearly disgusted by these states)
9:25am just hit minnesota. its freezing and still gross out. where the hell is the sun? this is ridiculous. almost 3,000 miles, still nowhere near our final stop haha, speaking of haha we just crossed a town called minnehaha, made us laugh.
9:43am stopped to fill up at shell. erin got a coffee, i got a rockstar cause the monster i tried to drink earlier made me feel sick. i also got a $1 luck buck. lets see if i won..........didn't win, stupid.
10:37am we hit 3,000 miles a little while ago, about 60 miles into minnesota. we should be in new york by now. for some reason this doesn't surprise me that we are still 1/2 way across the country. i hope it gets nice out soon & i want to get out of this state asap....stopped to get waters...continuing on....
12:39pm still in minnesota. still raining. please. get. us. out. i am not enjoying this rain. adderall is making life a little bit better but not as awesome as i can imagine it with the sun shining down on us. almost to wisconsin...CHEEEEEEEESE. yay!
1:46pm just got pulled over @ 1:35pm to be exact. in minnesota. i would get pulled over in minnesota. just my luck. seriously? luckily the officer was extremely nice (and cute). when he came to the window me & erin were hysterically laughing, which made him sort of laugh as well...with us. telling you, he was a really cool cop. he asked for my drivers license and i handed it to him and asked him if i was speeding and how fast i was going. his response: "well...when i first met you, you were going about 80....then you started speeding up to about 86-90 once i clocked you" i am seriously the biggest idiot. i honestly didn't even see him behind me. i said sorry and told him we were just listening to music loudly and had to go to the bathroom really bad. honest. at least i didn't tell him i saw a ghost this time (which was still the truth when that had happened years ago) at least he didnt think i was on some sort of drug, he went back to his car and came back 6 minutes later and said we were good to go....with only a warning. SCORE! NO TICKET! HECK YEA! were only about 10 miles away from wisconsin ill make sure to stay at 70 mph until we get there. once we cross the state line i believe i am a-okay with new state police & new warnings. or at least that is what i am hoping because there is no way im staying at 70 mph the entire rest of the way, we'll NEVER get to new york.
2:16pm 2,222.00 (exactly) miles in. @ the wisconsin welcome sign. we made it. yay. about another 200 miles til milwaukee. weeee! im having cheese & beer for dinner.
3:55pm don't worry. we turned around at exit 55 to backtrack to exit 12, approx. 45 miles BACK WEST because 'CHEESE CASTLE" sounded beyond exciting. all i could picture was a huge castle made of real cheese; somewhat of a heaven for me. i love cheese. i pictured it like a willy wonka chocolate factory but a cheese version. there would be cheese bears and cheese canes, cheese drops and a river of flowing melted cheese that we could swim in. well this was NOT the case. just just pulled up and both of us are nearly in tears. one of my eyes is tearing due to the fact that i was completely mislead by the word 'castle' and my dreams were crushed and the other eye of mine was crying because i was laughing so hard. i had mixed emotions. this place is a fucking dump. yea, real castle. maybe a swiss cheese castle, a real hole in the wall. guess we're going in. this is seriously a fucking joke. disappointed but actually not surprised. these sort of things always happen to us.
4:06pm at least the cheese was good. we only had 3 flavors to choose from. we did however get a football cheese cutter. alright, back to to journey to milwaukee. never be deceived by cool words like castle. you'll just disappoint yourself in the end.
9:59pm me & erin have actually become queens of milwaukee, wisconsin. thank you triple a for getting us an awesome room at the hilton with two HUGE PLUSH beds. this probably doesn't seem THAT exciting to anyone else but to us, we feel like royalty right now haha. after living in a storage unit for 2 months and then a car for the past 3 weeks, this is the best thing ever! erin has once again turned the room into antarctica. not sure when we became polar bears but apparently somewhere along the trip we must have transformed ourselves from humans into them. guaranteed tomorrow morning she is going to need red-eyes and i am going to need to be rushed to the hospital to have blood pumped into my body due to hypothermia...AGAIN. i seriously can't feel my nose right now. we got done with a little work out earlier and now we are using the free wi-fi. obviously cannot live without the internet. pathetic i know but whatever. plan for tomorrow is drinking our old milwaukee beers at the milwaukee sign and then heading to chicago to see holly! yay! very very excited!!!!!
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