When we left on this trip, I had one tiny bookcase of books. I gave away about half of my library before we left New York, and talked various friends into storing the rest for me. We couldn't really spare the space, but the thought of living for six months or a year without books was intolerable. We found space for our tiniest bookcase, and I ( Read more... )

We're in San Francisco! Well, Oakland, actually, but close enough ( Read more... )

Every roadtrip needs one really major, expensive, strand-you-in-the-middle-of-nowhere vehicle breakdown, right ( Read more... )

*pokes friendslist* Is anyone in the Albuquerque/Santa Fe area? Amy's laptop battery was recalled a while back, and the replacement arrived at her mom's house today. We leave Austin on Thursday morning, and there's just no way we can get it out to any of our friends here in time. (Well, we COULD, but we don't want to pay that much ( Read more... )

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So much traveling. So little time to write about it ( Read more... )

Near our campground in Nashville, there was a church with a sign out front that read "Don't Let Evolution Make A Monkey Out Of Your Child."

I was very, very tempted to stop and rearrange the sign to read "Don't Let Evolution Make A Child Out Of Your Monkey."

Nashville has been a good stop. I've had entirely too much barbeque in the past few days for my own good, but since I haven't been able to get the real thing in four years, I think it's excusable ( Read more... )

We made it into Tennessee last night around 9:30, after about twelve hours of driving. At one point we contemplated stopping for the night at the Mammoth Caves, but they wanted $17 a night for a small off-level dirt campsite without any hookups, and we both desperately wanted electricity and running water at that point, so we pushed through to a ( Read more... )

We're in Ohio. Ohio is not as bad as I'd feared, given that many of the Bad Things in my history came from Ohio. Such as my evil ex. Mostly, it's boring, and the people we've encountered generally look as if they've been sucking on lemons. (Except the adorable gay boy who was waiting tables at the restaurant where we stopped for lunch yesterday ( Read more... )