My recent adventure to Seattle reminded me how badly I want to road trip across America. It is something I have been wanting to do ever since I was a teenager, and it officially is something I must do very very soon.
There is something so singularly wonderful about driving down the highway, the windows down, the Earth's breath blowing my hair, the sun shining, the music playing, and nothing but miles and miles of road ahead of me. I feel very much at home on long car journeys--perhaps from all those trips to Gramma's in my youth--and love waking up super early, getting a yummy coffee, piling into a car and hitting the road...the anticipation never fails to excite me.
It wasn't until I drove to Seattle that I realized just how long it had been since I'd spent any decent amount of time in my car. These days I walk pretty much everywhere, and believe you me I do not miss the car-driven lifestyle of Southern California, but it was still refreshing to have someplace exciting to drive to. Plus, Jazmine is a stellar travel buddy, except for when she goes all diva on me and decides to malfunction. What a lovely treat to reconnect with my wheels; our last trip together was when I moved from LA to Portland, a two-day drive that turned into a one-day-17-hour-marathon in an attempt to beat Mother Nature and her snowstorms, which culminated with me going temporarily insane when I got stuck in standstill traffic on hour 16 (sorry Natalie!).
But yes, this road trip. My initial plan from way back in the day was to venture to every single landlocked state; having recently bought a super-amazing-laminated-folding-map and measured the milage on it, I now see how beyond impractical an idea that was. My country is just too huge. So, where to go? Well, I really really want to go to Colorado because I have never been and hear it is absolutely beautiful. Apparently Michigan is sublime in the summertime by all those lakes. And I kinda really wanna drive through Kansas just to see what the middle of nowhere looks like. Oh, and I also want to go to Austin and explore that country known as Texas. Then there is the Grand Canyon which is a must at some point in my life, but it's boiling in the summer and there are a bazillion and a half tourists there then...and I don't really like people that much. And I also sort of just want to get in my car and start driving and see where I end up. Who knows what will happen, but as per usual, my desired destinations have no real form of proximity to one another, which is bound to make any form of planning a mathematical and cartographical nightmare.
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