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.

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.

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.

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.