Today was actually the most crowded day of the trip. I thought leaving the DC area would be bad, but I didn't have a whole lot of trouble on the East Coast. Today though...I think everyone and their mother was on their way back to school. I kept ending up in clusters of cars trying to pass trucks, while the trucks were trying to pass the slower ( Read more... )

Today was a marathon, it seemed. I managed to get on the road by 9am Central, and I finally stopped for dinner around 8pm Central. I'm about a hundred miles outside of Dallas at this point, so I should only have a four or five hour drive tomorrow. I hope.

I shouldn't be this exhausted. I didn't do anything other than set the cruise control and try ( Read more... )

Thanks to someone else taking my streamhold (yay Kai!), I was able to go to bed on time (relatively) and get up at a reasonable hour to being the Great Cross-Country Trip (part two). I have to be back in Austin for an 8am Monday interview, so I don't have the luxury of getting off my sleep schedule this time. I have to drive as far as possible each ( Read more... )

Despite having had almost three weeks off, I'm finding myself scrambling to get everything done this week. I plan to head back to school on Friday, this time with my Tank (aka, the 4Runner). I'm going to head through Atlanta so I can see some friends and drop off gifts (and long delayed CDs). Back in December, this seemed the perfect week to ( Read more... )