Somewhere in America...

[rabekriegerin]

Seriously, this is one massive country. Started off in Nokomis, FL this morning [5:15 AM], and 14 straight hours of driving later, I'm "somewhere north of Richmond, VA"... Ashland, maybe? I'm not sure. I'm just grateful the hotel has internet. 5 hrs to NYC and another 2-3 to home.

Gah. Such a big place. So long to drive it!

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[ladybastet92]

I FEEL YOU. SOOO MUCH.

At least three times a year, my family would take the nine hour+ drive up to Conneticut or down to Georgia. This past summer, we did the whole mile, from the bottom of the east coast to the top.

...it was HELL.

[rabekriegerin]

Ever since I was born [literally], we've been making trips up to Maine practically every other week in the summer, which average 4.5 hrs one way. I can handle 5 hrs without blinking an eye. (Shorter "trips" seem... short. Weirdness.) Then I went to university in DC, which is 6 hrs on a nice day and 8 on an unpleasant one... I can handle that too.

But I draw the line at 22 hrs. Granted I've done it before - this isn't the first time we elected to drive to FL rather than fly, though WHY is forever beyond me - but ugh. Sanity, lost! At least we didn't drive straight through, as my parents are wont to do. Talk about hell!

Still I am home now :D and holy crap, way way WAY too much snow. There are still 2ft on my front lawn! >:o

[spyramy]

Paha, when you said Richmond i thought you meant the Richmond in greater London and got all excited for a moment. (It's quite a nice place, by the way.)

I once did an American road trip with my family. The landscape was nice and all but all the radio would pick up was country stations. I want to wait until i have a couple of years on my driving license and then go to America and hire a car... But it's not a very well-planned trip so far.

[rabekriegerin]

I'd be excited to be in the London area too. (I love that city. Then again I love most cities, oddly enough; I'm a rural New England girl.) No, I was in Richmond, Virginia... a much less exciting distant cousin... alas.

I dislike road trips. Intently. After I got back from Europe in '09 the friend I went with said next time she went on a trip, it'd be a road trip out west. Well, she can have fun with that, no WAY you are getting me in a car. Trains, please! (As if we have anything better than crappy trains here.)

I am, ah, not a fan of country music. And out in the (mid)west you can go for miles and miles and miles and find nothing but. My family has gotten resigned to the fact that I will bring a stack of "musical mix" CDs on any journey over two hours. They don't understand a word of German, but they're almost as excited for Rebecca on Broadway as I am, and my dad keeps fuming that he'll likely never see Tanz/Rudolf/Elisabeth on an American stage. ;)