Alrighty. The Big One. If you wanna know how my roadtrip went read this entry. And pray for me, because this b*$&% is gonna take me the whole night to type out.

CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME

Road Trip Day 1 (Tuesday)

Geez Louise! The journey can't start until we leave and if there was one thing we couldn't seem to do, it was leave. Our original plan of being done with all of the packing by Monday night screamed failure as the sun came up Tuesday on a half empty Uhaul. Noon rolls around... still not done. 4pm rolls around... still not done.

Finally, as the sun was starting to set and the dreaded South Miami traffic started NOT moving, we finished putting the last of the stuff in the Uhaul (Made possible by the many hours of Tetris training... Thanks Nintendo!), said goodbye to the last 3 years of slavery & strife ( thanks Art Institute...) and said hello to the road.
Fortunately we had enough breathing space for the 4 of us. Darryl and I drove in my car while Andy and Pete drove the Uhaul in the back. Each car had it's own walkie talkie (so we could make fun of each other without the danger of getting any physical comebacks) and Andy had found this nifty device that would transmit the music he was playing from his mp3 player to the few lucky folks who drove close enough to receive the signal.

Needless to say we had a lot of games like "Guess the singer" and "Guess what movie."
We originally were supposed to camp out in Tallahassee the first night, but because of our late start we ended up finding a cheap hotel in Jacksonville (the home town of Urban the Great). Cheap meant one bed... Andy and Pete were gracious enough to take the floor.

All plans were set for the next morning, when we would get up early and find our way to that great city of Jazz... New Orleans.

(to be continued... tomorrow. I wussed out. This story will be better told in installments anyway. )