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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