August 8, 2008
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Good news and bad news everybody. The good news for me is that I survived the trip to post another day. The bad news for you is that I lived to post another day! Obviously there is a whole heck of a lot to write about, so I’ve decided that this first post I’m going to give you some general details and facts about my trip. Also its late at night and after driving so much over the course of the past 5 days, I don’t think I have a full hour long post in me. So, you can chew on this for now.
- Number of states I drove through: 8 And since you asked, here they are in the order of which I drove through: IL, MO, OK, TX, LA, MS, TN, AR.
- Number of state capitals I drove through: 1, just Springfield in my home state of IL.
- Number of times I crossed the Mississippi river: 4, Illinois into Missouri, Louisiana into Mississippi, Tennessee into Arkansas and Missouri into Illinois.
- Total number of miles I drove: Over 2000, however I didn’t keep track.
- Total of hours driven: Again, I didn’t keep track but here is an approximate: 34 hours.
- Number of cds I listened to: 25. I did listen to one of those cds (Green Day’s American Idiot) twice and also listened to the entire 3 hour Cubs game on Sunday, the day I left.
- Amount of time I wore shoes and socks: 0 minutes. It was so damn hot, I didn’t have the need or desire to wear them. I had intended to wear them inside the bars and casinos, but left the shoes in the car which was taken away by the valet and it would have been a big pain in the ass just to get them.
- Number of states I gambled in: 3
- Number of casinos I went to: 4
- Number of times I ate fast food: 0. Although this one is up for debate, as I did at lunch at Subway today, but I’ve never considered them true fast food in the sense that they are much healthier than true fast food.
When one spends 34 hours alone driving in a car, it gives you plenty of time to think. When I have time to think, comedy comes to my head. Now I was going to be sending text messages to friends and family with updates on the trip. Midway through Missouri, I was trying to think of something funny to say about Texas. Ok, I should clarify, I was trying to narrow it down to only one thing to say about Texas. I then decided that I would make up a state motto for each state to announce to everybody that I had made it to another state. The first one I did was Texas, which means that I didn’t have one for Oklahoma. So, here is an internet Xanga exclusive, the Oklahoma state motto that nobody else has heard. Along with each of the other states, which everybody else has heard:
Oklahoma: In the time it took to read this, we were hit by another 14 tornadoes.
Texas: Where being retarded gets you executed……………or elected president!
Louisiana: The Land FEMA Forgot
Mississippi: 63% of our residents confuse us with Missouri.
Tennessee: Touched by so many states that we are a state whore.
Missouri: The show me your tits state.
Illinois: We added the S to confuse people from Kentucky.
