How Far is it From Anchorage, AK, to Thompson, ND?
According to the odometer of my sister's 2003 Honda Civic, 2945 miles. That's a ridiculously long way. It took us four full days (12+ hours each) to drive it. That's such a long ways that it's essentially impossible to wrap your brain around it unless you've done it yourself. Since you are unlikely to do that any time soon, let's try looking at it via music. You know how iTunes says that you have X days of music or whatever? Here is the complete list of every album that we listened to in the car on the way here, by day.
[CD] indicates it came from my sister's collection. Everything was else was on my iPod. Of course, a lot of what is on my iPod is also in my sister's collection, but whatever.
[Inc] means that we stopped for the night before finishing the album.
Wednesday
OMPS Kill Bill, v.1 [CD]
Amy Winehouse - Back in Black
Mark Ronson - Version
The Decemberists - The Tain
Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound [CD]
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
Immaculate Machine - Ones and Zeroes
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Fallout Boy - Infinity on High
The Clash - Combat Rock
Mojo Nixon - Bodacious! [Inc, 2 tracks unplayed]
Thursday
Moxy Früvous - You Will Go to the Moon
Morphine - Like Swimming
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
The Beatles - Revolver
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
OMPS - Moulin Rouge, v.1
OMPS - Moulin Rouge, v.2
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
Josh Ritter - Golden Age of Radio
Sarah Harmer - I'm a Mountain
Fred Eaglesmith - Ralph's Last Show [2 discs] [Inc, 3 tracks unplayed]
Friday
U2 - Rattle & Hum
OMPS - O Brother Where Art Thou [CD]
Stars - The Five Ghosts
The Waifs - Up All Night
OMPS - Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live in New York City [2 discs]
The Constantines - Shine a Light
V/A - Future Soundtrack For America
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
OMPS - Pulp Fiction
Saturday
Mike Doughty - Live at the Fox Theater 4/18/2003
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
Rasputina - Frustration Plantation
Th' Legenday Shack Shakers - Pandelirium
Queen - Greatest Hits [1992 US Edition, Red Cover]
OMPS - Grosse Pointe Blank, v.1
OMPS - Grosse Pointe Blank, v.2
OMPS - Grease
Bon Jovi - Cross Road
Bryan Adams - So Far, So Good
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
OBC - Rent [2 discs]
Great Big Sea - Road Rage [Inc, 4 tracks unplayed]
So to properly replicate our trip, just pop all of these albums on one after the other. We had music going almost the entire time, aside from some NPR the first hour of the first day and another hour or so in Edmonton. Otherwise, it was all rock, all the time. It occurs to me that I've dated multiple women who didn't own this many CDs in total. In fact, it's probably not a coincidence that xhollydayx owns more and better music than any other woman I ever dated.
By the way, my sister's brief trip summaries can be found here and here.
[CD] indicates it came from my sister's collection. Everything was else was on my iPod. Of course, a lot of what is on my iPod is also in my sister's collection, but whatever.
[Inc] means that we stopped for the night before finishing the album.
Wednesday
OMPS Kill Bill, v.1 [CD]
Amy Winehouse - Back in Black
Mark Ronson - Version
The Decemberists - The Tain
Crooked Still - Shaken by a Low Sound [CD]
We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
Immaculate Machine - Ones and Zeroes
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
Fallout Boy - Infinity on High
The Clash - Combat Rock
Mojo Nixon - Bodacious! [Inc, 2 tracks unplayed]
Thursday
Moxy Früvous - You Will Go to the Moon
Morphine - Like Swimming
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
The Beatles - Revolver
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Shake the Sheets
OMPS - Moulin Rouge, v.1
OMPS - Moulin Rouge, v.2
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - I Learned the Hard Way
Josh Ritter - Golden Age of Radio
Sarah Harmer - I'm a Mountain
Fred Eaglesmith - Ralph's Last Show [2 discs] [Inc, 3 tracks unplayed]
Friday
U2 - Rattle & Hum
OMPS - O Brother Where Art Thou [CD]
Stars - The Five Ghosts
The Waifs - Up All Night
OMPS - Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Live in New York City [2 discs]
The Constantines - Shine a Light
V/A - Future Soundtrack For America
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
OMPS - Pulp Fiction
Saturday
Mike Doughty - Live at the Fox Theater 4/18/2003
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here
Rasputina - Frustration Plantation
Th' Legenday Shack Shakers - Pandelirium
Queen - Greatest Hits [1992 US Edition, Red Cover]
OMPS - Grosse Pointe Blank, v.1
OMPS - Grosse Pointe Blank, v.2
OMPS - Grease
Bon Jovi - Cross Road
Bryan Adams - So Far, So Good
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
OBC - Rent [2 discs]
Great Big Sea - Road Rage [Inc, 4 tracks unplayed]
So to properly replicate our trip, just pop all of these albums on one after the other. We had music going almost the entire time, aside from some NPR the first hour of the first day and another hour or so in Edmonton. Otherwise, it was all rock, all the time. It occurs to me that I've dated multiple women who didn't own this many CDs in total. In fact, it's probably not a coincidence that xhollydayx owns more and better music than any other woman I ever dated.
By the way, my sister's brief trip summaries can be found here and here.