Travel Log
So, I'm supposed to be competing down in Ashville, North Carolina this weekend for a major ballroom dance competition. My partner is already down there and I had the airline reservations all ready. However, since my dad is coming with us, he decided it would be fun to drive. "After all, we haven't been on a family road trip since Kelley was a kid," he said to my mom before I hit the confirm button on Continental's website. And, my mom readily agreed. I think they were trying to recapture moments from my childhood. Or something.
Here are just a few highlights:
They picked me up from school in NYC at about 1 pm
We sat in traffic at the tunnel
2:00 we finally got on 95
Around the Baltimore we almost got sideswiped by a huge truck. Thank God dad is a professional bus driver...I mean there are moments I want to kill myself but it's not really my intention on a family road trip...although I have the urge and it's not from Bipolar Disorder =p
My iPod dies as we enter DC. I'm stuck listening to the Beatles and mom reminiscing about how we used to drive together to Disney World and the like. I think mom's been retelling me my entire childhood.
Around 10:30 we decide we are hungry. (I think we were in Virginia at this point) and we pull into a gas station with a Subway attached. It has a unisex bathroom. Mom walked in on a state trooper peeing at the same time dad tripped over his own two feet and drops an entire tray of Subway subs on the cleaning lady.
We leave. A couple of miles down the road, said state trooper that my mom walked in on pulled us over for speeding. Even more epic, mom was driving! He was amused at het blush and just gave us a warning
Dad starts driving. We end up in Tennessee. So here's our route: NY, NJ, Del, MD, VA, NC, TN..,we were in North Carolina...the state of our destination and we somehow ended up in TN. Dad and I switch driving before he throws GPS out the window.
We stop to eat and regroup at the Omlette House. Our waitress was named Bertha, not even kidding! Dad resumes driving.
In TN we pass three churches with neon crosses outside them and a huge pepsi top that says: Pepsi is tops in Eastern Tennessee!
It's 2:44 am and we are still in Tennessee.
Ironically enough, I'm having a good time and so are my parents.
Yay for family road trips!!! =]
Here are just a few highlights:
They picked me up from school in NYC at about 1 pm
We sat in traffic at the tunnel
2:00 we finally got on 95
Around the Baltimore we almost got sideswiped by a huge truck. Thank God dad is a professional bus driver...I mean there are moments I want to kill myself but it's not really my intention on a family road trip...although I have the urge and it's not from Bipolar Disorder =p
My iPod dies as we enter DC. I'm stuck listening to the Beatles and mom reminiscing about how we used to drive together to Disney World and the like. I think mom's been retelling me my entire childhood.
Around 10:30 we decide we are hungry. (I think we were in Virginia at this point) and we pull into a gas station with a Subway attached. It has a unisex bathroom. Mom walked in on a state trooper peeing at the same time dad tripped over his own two feet and drops an entire tray of Subway subs on the cleaning lady.
We leave. A couple of miles down the road, said state trooper that my mom walked in on pulled us over for speeding. Even more epic, mom was driving! He was amused at het blush and just gave us a warning
Dad starts driving. We end up in Tennessee. So here's our route: NY, NJ, Del, MD, VA, NC, TN..,we were in North Carolina...the state of our destination and we somehow ended up in TN. Dad and I switch driving before he throws GPS out the window.
We stop to eat and regroup at the Omlette House. Our waitress was named Bertha, not even kidding! Dad resumes driving.
In TN we pass three churches with neon crosses outside them and a huge pepsi top that says: Pepsi is tops in Eastern Tennessee!
It's 2:44 am and we are still in Tennessee.
Ironically enough, I'm having a good time and so are my parents.
Yay for family road trips!!! =]