23 July 2008
Travel
Last week, John and I went to North Carolina to get away and visit my Nana and Gaga. We drove 16 hours cross country to get there, and this is our trip TO the NC.I've decided to split this into two blogs because while I took around 150 photos and am not publishing all of them, there's still alot of ground to cover. Or mountains to climb, if you will.
We left at 8:25 in the morning and our trip started at 0 of course. We made our adventure official the night before, and I wound up being so busy with packing and cleaning etc that I didn't sleep at all. I stayed up all night, and John drove first. I tried to sleep with little success and popped in the mix CD that Jill made for us.
We stopped at a Starbucks in Tyler, TX I believe because i figured if I couldn't sleep I might as well caffeinate myself up!!! I told John to turn the wrong way and we wound up making a big 2 mile circle back to the Starbucks which was employed by country folk. It was trippy.
I have a feeling this is somewhere still in Texas right before Louisiana. The first town we drove through was Shreveport, a whopping 3 hours away from Dallas.
There are about a million signs leading into Shreveport advertising the casinos, and all of them stream below their adds, "Gambling Problem? Call 1800-bla-blah"(not they don't really say bla blah, how apathetic would that be? "Just kidding, there's no real number to call. We don't really care, gamble your life, savings, and family away") We thought it was ironic.
This is the Horses-hoe Casino in Shreveport and it's made from pure gold. It's beautiful. It's not made from pure gold. And it's not that beautiful. I do remember being awed by this building as a child though.
At this point we'd been in the car about 6 hours and gone a third of the way. Well a little more than third. I had packed a cooler of lox, bagels, fig newtons, veggies, etc. And I had brought my pack of cigarettes as well:
Then we stopped to gas up and I bought some gum, thank god. It was yummy, Sangria Fresca. Shortly after this we made it to Mississippi. The following is quoted non-verbatim. I didn't remember how it really goes( "the mighty Mississip, the old Miss, the old man, sings 'Old Man River'") so I made up alot of it, poorly. My favorite part is when I say, "The Mud River." Because why did I say that?
This is Birmingham, AL. Sort of Urban. Not very exciting. At this point we were almost halfway there.
We saw this monster bumpin Caddy in Alabama. Surprised?
We'd now been in the car about 10 1/2 hours and gone 2/3rds of the way. We are probably Still in Alabama at this point.
We also saw this monster bumpin car. "Don't Hate". That's so Bad Ass. We were very tired. Very tired. Kerri, there's a message for you in the next video.
Talladega Motor Speedway. If you're not first, you're last.
I couldn't get a non-blurry picture of the track, but it's HUGE. We are still in Alabama.
The Atlanta Capitol. Atlanta is huge, it's very long. It's sort of as if Downtown Dallas ran the whole length of 75 up to Addison. Well, maybe not that long but you get the picture. Very urban for a very long time. Very metropolitan. We drove past the Olympic torch but didn't get a good picture. And then we drove past Georgia Tech. I have a cousin who won two Olympic gold metals for swimming in the Sydney 2000 Olympics and is now the swim coach at Georgia Tech
. Nostalgic.
This is the final shot of the car. 12:03 (which was really 1:03 Eastern) and 961.1 Miles. All the way from Arlington, TX to Cashiers, NC.
My Nana had this bed on their porch all made up for us. I love sleeping on the porch at Nana's in the summer. The days aren't too bad and the nights are in the 60's or even 50's if it's been raining. We had a bunch of blankets and comforters and passed out!! It is sometimes hard to sleep because there is a black bear that lives in the woods behind them and every sound I hear convinces me that it's the bear. We did sleep until Noon the next day which shocked me, I figured we'd sleep and then wake early, but we were just that exhausted. I'll continue this trip in my next blog as not to overwhelm those daring to read/look at pictures. The End of Day 1
The Atlanta Capitol. Atlanta is huge, it's very long. It's sort of as if Downtown Dallas ran the whole length of 75 up to Addison. Well, maybe not that long but you get the picture. Very urban for a very long time. Very metropolitan. We drove past the Olympic torch but didn't get a good picture. And then we drove past Georgia Tech. I have a cousin who won two Olympic gold metals for swimming in the Sydney 2000 Olympics and is now the swim coach at Georgia Tech
. Nostalgic.This is the final shot of the car. 12:03 (which was really 1:03 Eastern) and 961.1 Miles. All the way from Arlington, TX to Cashiers, NC.
My Nana had this bed on their porch all made up for us. I love sleeping on the porch at Nana's in the summer. The days aren't too bad and the nights are in the 60's or even 50's if it's been raining. We had a bunch of blankets and comforters and passed out!! It is sometimes hard to sleep because there is a black bear that lives in the woods behind them and every sound I hear convinces me that it's the bear. We did sleep until Noon the next day which shocked me, I figured we'd sleep and then wake early, but we were just that exhausted. I'll continue this trip in my next blog as not to overwhelm those daring to read/look at pictures. The End of Day 1
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I would absolutely LURVE sleeping on that porch! I love grandparents more than any type of people in the whole wide world.
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