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Captain’s Log August 22, 2009

“Leaving only 8 hours behind schedule.  Hopefully there’s an In-N-Out outside the city… Or I would take a Sonic as well so we could stay in the car”

-Captain Igor “Stumpy” Belagorudsky

“Take on me…. Take on me…. Take me on… Take on me… I’ll be gone… In a day or twooooooooooooo”

-Copilot Tracey “Boat-foot” Callahan

Day one started late but strong.  We were not able to get everything in the car as Igor’s I have a dream speech stated.  Last night our friend Jeff tried to bet us that we would be out of San Francisco after 12… good thing we didn’t take that bet!  We shipped some boxes pretty inexpensively and everyone fit in the car.  We drove for about 6 hours today.  Destination was Oregon to visit D but it didn’t happen.  We found a really cool place where you could drive thru a tree.  Pics are pretty cool.  We made it to Eureka and decided to find a place to stay.  Eureka rivals Philly for least favorite city in the US.  We found a cheap place to stay and snuck the kitten in.  Then some lady, who I believe called this motel home, narc’ed on him yelling to the owner “Uh-uh… there are no pet here nice try.  HEY!  He’s got a dog.”  We managed to find the one motel in the city where the patrons are unable to distinguish cats from dogs.  Ig and I used Yelp and found a nice pub to eat at called Lost Coast.  A pub with a cool menu and cheap, micro brewed beer.  Getting ready to turn in and enjoy the scratchy sheets.  Dead bolt…. Check!  Tomorrow… Redwood Forest and D’s place.

Miles: 274.8

Spent: 127.07

Today’s Quote: “the world is a vampire”

…I wish i could watch True Blood

For the record, I don’t like the nickname “Stumpy”. I feel like the captain does not need a nickname.

Anyway, the road trip back to Boston has begun. Tracey will try to update the blog as often as possible. You can also follow me on Twitter - talktotheigor

Away we go!

We are currently in Vegas… I am not going to say that it was a mistake for we are having a lot of fun and going to see Zumanity tonight, but I will say that I need to stop being an idiot. My brain is telling me that the only game that you can win money in is Texas Hold’em, but my stupidness (separate from brain) is getting me to lose all my money on stupid shit like Pai Gow and Three Card Poker. Oh, don’t get me wrong - it IS a lot of fun… but the expensive kind of fun.

As I told my sister, it’s not so much that Vegas has been kicking my ass, but if two guys were in a fight and  guy A just held guy B down and proceeded to smack him a couple of times like a girl, it wouldn’t that guy A kicked guy B’s ass, but it would still be pretty embarrassing for guy B. I am guy B.

Also, what I think is not fair is that at the Hooters casino, the higher chips don’t have any prettier girls. I feel like that the higher your chip is, the less clothes the girl should be wearing, but the $100 chips are just as PG as the $5 ones.

We know we are behind in the updates, but this is the first night that we’ve gotten to where we were going before 11:30 pm. We are now in Carlsbad, NM, but we are going to talk about Day 1 for a second:

The one thought that comes to mind is Philly is a shithole. I am personally going to do my best not to ever be there again. Even Mu, who has been fantastic throughout the trip, hated Philly so badly he almost freaked out. There were two reasons we even stopped by there - for the liberty bell and to get a cheese steak. Both were grossly disappointing. The cheese steak, the size of a medium hot dog, cost us 12 bucks and while it was not bad, it was in now way good.

Here are some awesome pictures…

breakfast at 7
ruby falls at 8
do ruby falls, railway, rock city - 1.5 hours total
9:30
go back, pick up the cat
9:45
5 hours to graceland at 3pm
1.5 hours at graceland
4:15
6 hours to new orleans
10:15 (9:15 central)

Sorry we haven’t been able to post exciting stories or pictures - we’ve been literally driving around the country like crazy, but we promise they will get up here soon.

This was the plan today:

leave at 7:30
3 hours to liberty bell
liberty bell at 10:30
1 hour lunch
3 hours to mason dixon
mason dixon at 2:30
2.5 hours to washington dc
dc at 5

Here’s what actually happened:

We were more or less an hour behind schedule all day long. We couldn’t find the Mason Dixon markers for a while, then we found them and I peed in the bushes (in the south, obviously). We arrived in DC around 7 and went for dinner at a sushi place and then some drinks.

Now it’s 1 AM and I have to get to sleep. I will post lots of pictures tomorrow.

Here is the tentative plan for tomorrow:

leave at 7
5.5 hours to
chair at west commerce ave and s main street, high point, nc
chair at fisher ferry, west main st, thomasville, nc
12:30
5 hours to
salt and pepper shaker museum, smokey mountain
30 mins at museum
6pm
3 hours to chattanooga
9pm, sleep at chattanooga

Anyone know of anything to do in Chattanooga?

It is now 12:41 AM (eastern time for the time being) and I wanted to be asleep at 10… It has taken me some time to set up the blog, but now that’s done.

Tomorrow morning, we embark on our journey - Boston to San Francisco in 2 weeks. Technically, we are currently in CT where we’ve been all weekend so the road trip is Orange, CT to San Francisco, but that doesn’t have as good a ring.

Tomorrow: wake up at 6, final destination - Washington, DC.

We’ll keep you all updated.

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Update: it is now 2 am and I am still fiddling with the themes for this thing. Please ignore the weirdness over the next few days as I tweak this thing to be just right. If anyone has any good WordPress themes, please share.