Travel Log: Monday, March 5th 2012.

Leaving the house for a trip is never as quick or as easy as you may plan. This morning when I woke up (at the ungodly hour of 5:30am) I thought I had everything planned out. I had my clothes set aside and a sticky note of everything I need to make sure I had grabbed before I ran out the door attached to my keys. My parents had already told me not to intentionally wake them, so there was no weird early morning "My baby is traveling alone for the first time" conversations. The task seemed SO simple, apprantly it was all TOO simple. I woke up to my alarm, on time. I quickly got dressed and grabed anything I thought I needed from my room (like my cell charger, my cell phone, laptop, etc.). I went downstairs, gathered everything else that was on my sticky note list and threw it in a bag. Success! I had time to eat breakfast before I hit the road. I get out to my car and of course I forgot something. This is an infallible habbit of mine. My forgetting something until I'm in the drivers seat is more regular than Lindsay Lohan's botox injections! So, I ran into the house to grab the few long lost items that I needed. Fortunately, since it was just me I was packing for, I pulled out only 15 minutes later than I had planned.

For thoseof you who know me well, I am not an "Allone" type of person. I am very much a "I surround myself with people all the time so I don't have to experience silence" type of person. :) Well, I did pretty well for the first few hours. However, around 8:30 I was feeling a tad bit groggy... Since I have no one with me to keep me awake, I pulled over at a "Service Plaza" (Everything in Ohio is called a 'Plaza"...WHAT THE HECK?!) slept for half an hour, woke up with  my sore throat feeling aggitated. I ran inside the mini=mall and bought myself some cough drops and what did I find?! A STARBUCKS! In Lansing, these things are few and far between. I'm fairly confident there is only a single starbucks within a decent drivingdistance from where I live. Though I'm ussually a Biggby girl (for those of you who don't know, that's a local coffee shop), sometimes Starbucks is the only thing that can satisfy the coffee snob within. From there, I hit the road again. I've been driving almost non stop (I did stop for gas). It is now 1pm. I've stopped for lunch (more substantial then granola bars) at a local Denny's.

I've decided that toll workers are angry people, well... at least until I got to Pennsylvania. There is nothing better than a middle aged man "Closing" his booth so he can take a moment to look at your nails! haha He was the best, I wish I could have gotten a picture with him! A good 10+ hours after I left home, I arrived, found parking and made it to my cousins house. Which, is pretty much my dream appartment. haha We searched the web for ideas of things I could do while she was at work during the days and then we ordered in. Chinese, always a good choice. :)

Now I'm just hoping that this cold-ish thing that has ahold of me will let go so I can enjoy my week!

So long for now,
Jackie