No sir, away! A papaya war is on!

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?

I’ll elaborate later but philadelphia is a shithole. Never going back there.

iPhone post test with the wordpress app. This will be useful on the run. Picture in honor of the olympics and all that jazz.

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.