Preface

Welcome! 

Okay, so here’s the deal. This is my last summer off. I’ve been in school for what seems like forever. In December, I will graduate with my second Bachelor’s degree. I will then have to start studying for the NCLEX (nurse licensing exam) then apply for jobs then start a job then become an adult. If I want time off, I’ll have to wait an appropriate amount of time after starting this new job and file a form requesting the specific days well in advance, which I’m sure should only be a week because that’s a normal adult vacation. ((I do not plan on working nine to five, Monday through Friday, come home to eat dinner, watch TV, and go to bed to do it again the next day for the rest of my life, but I may have to live with that for a little while as a new grad. But that’s a whole other story.)) My point is, that for now anyway, this is my last summer of freedom. I’m twenty seven years old, single, childless, and without a “real” job. Time for a road trip. 

There’s not many people I’d want to be trapped in a car with for three and half weeks. Okay, there’s only one. He’s a blonde bombshell of a babe and his name is Henley. He also happens to be a dog, my three year old yellow Lab. We leave for our road trip in one month. So it’s prep time! Just kidding, I’ve been planning this for months. Not in an anxious, I have to get this all done and planned to a T way. But in a I don’t want to miss anything so I’m going to research the crap out of this way. This is the second best part! The actual road trip being the best part. I like to have a good foundation to the trip, a solid plan, to fall back on if nothing else. I will have a road atlas, printed out turn-by-turn directions to each place I plan on staying the night, and a (I will not reveal how many paged) itinerary in case all else fails. It’s likely I’ll find myself without internet/phone service and a dead laptop so I’ll be prepared if that happens. I also don’t want to find out later that this awesome thing was right down the road from where I was on this quite possibly once in a lifetime trip and I missed it and may never get to experience it ever again. That’s why I make a pretty intense itinerary with a variety of fonts and several tiers of bullets. I’m a list nerd. However, with that said, I am totally okay with going off the itinerary. But honestly, why would I need to? My itinerary rocks. 

So here’s the plan. I’ll give just an overview of the major places I’m going through to give you an idea of the route. It doesn’t necessarily mean I’m there a whole day or staying overnight, I may or may not be just driving through. I’m not a road trip expert, but I’m going to go ahead and give the advice to not post publicly ahead of time where exactly you’ll be and which creepy rest stop you plan on spending the night alone at. Just in case there’s a guy with a doll head fetish and a hook for a hand perusing the internet for a girl to keep in his basement, I will be posting a day or two after the fact. Sorry you had to read that, Mom. I’m sure that guy doesn’t exist and if he does he lives in Florida and I’m not going there. 

Boston > Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania > Columbus, Ohio > Indianapolis, Indiana > St. Louis, Missouri > Kansas City, Missouri > Denver, Colorado > Gunnison County, Colorado > Southern Utah > Phoenix, Arizona > San Clemente, California > Big Sur, California > San Francisco, California > Portland, Oregon > Seattle, Washington > Montana > Black Hills, South Dakota > Chicago, Illinois > New York state > Boston 

I only mentioned cities mainly, but that’s not to say I’m not going to some rad places off the highway and far away from dense populations. I also was as vague to list a whole large state, but I don’t want to give everything away so soon! The details that come later will be the fun part. 

Come back soon to learn more about the road trippers! :) 

Em 



"Respond to every call that excites your spirit." -Rumi