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.

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.

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!