Just Throw a Brick

Or don't, because it's one of the most boring roads in the world (at least, the part of it we drove.) It runs from Utah up a thousand mountains to Wyoming, and then slowly meanders through Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois. It wouldn't be such a bad drive if I had a DVD player and access to every single episode of Castle ever made, but we survived the trip using my iPod and The Morning Zoo podcast. Thank goodness for Frankie, DB, & Jess or I never would have made it. Ready to go! Also, who decided to give us the snake truck? Sheez. My plants also made the journey in the truck with us. They seemed to enjoy it better than we did. Cacti love road trips, right? It only lost a few of its succulent little leaves, and it does that sometimes anyway. I can't figure out why :( Wyoming is meh. The only good part of Wyoming is Jackson and the Grand Teton National Park. Sadly, we did not go through Jackson or the Tetons, so it was very meh. Grey, rainy, and meh (And yes...

Well, we made it. We made it to Chicago, and nobody died. The trailer didn't come off the truck, my car didn't zoom away off the trailer without anybody in it, and we brought everything we needed to. *sigh* Now the hard things start. Finding a job. Finding an apartment. Finding where I fit in in this vast, traffic-laden, humid Chicagoland. But for tonight, knowing we made it is enough. -K

Finally, the post you've all been waiting for!  THE TRIP! Part one! I survived four planes! However, I’ve been highly disappointed so far in our airports, because there are no members of the Amazing Race running around, and it’s always been my dream to see The Amazing Race in person (especially the episode where they roll cheeses...) Our first plane stop took us on a scenic sky voyage to Seattle, where we resided for approximately enough time to buy and eat a cup of oatmeal. I am highly entertained by all the tiny trucks and carts airports use to transfer things. And when I saw that the trucks that hold the food that’s going into the plane could raise themselves up (like in the below picture), I was freaking out. How cool is that? Magic! Our next sky-venture took us from lovely Seattle, where you can smell the ocean in the air, to Philadelphia, which smells like city. Want to know what city smells like? Sewer. Sewer and questionable-looking greasy food bein...