Traveling

**Note** I took so many pictures, but they are on my i-product, and since I do not have wireless here I have no way of uploading them.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

So here I am in Missouri. I am at Sara's place in Rolla, its a super awesome apartment, two bedrooms, huge living room, great kitchen, two bathrooms, the works.  And probably pretty cheap too since we are in Missouri...

Traveling so far has been great.  I haven't written here at all because sadly, and honestly, I have been emailing Jordan so much that I just don't feel like typing any more.  I pretty much detail out my day for him and ask lots of (most likely annoying) questions, and talk about anything and everything.  Then I am done with typing and so my blog gets the short end of the stick.  Also, in case all you skeptics were wondering, I'm still going strong. Have faith in me!

Being at home is so rough for some reason.  I don't know why, but I just really struggle to be there. So I left.  I went to Albany/Ithaca/Cortland/Binghamton/Horseheads/Long Island for almost a week. Then I was home for only a day and left for Boston for three.  I love going to Boston.  I have the two best most interesting, funny, and awesome nephews. My niece is freaking adorable, and I could hold her and have her make faces and smile at me all day. While going to visit them is awesome, and I have my own room there, I also love hanging out with my sister, Angela, and Ben is great too.  We always stay up late talking and I share all of my stories with her.  Its awesome. I tried to convince her to talk to me about sex, it didn't work out as well as planned. I guess older sisters don't want to hear about their little sisters endevours.

I came home for about a day to pack up my life, and left again for Philly the next morning.  I got to spend two nights with Arin and Andrea, which again was awesome. I drove down and met them out with some of their friends, and then took the train to see Sean's band play at the World Cafe.  Super awesome place.  The band was amazing, I totally enjoyed it, and am now equipped with two of their cds to listen to on my journey.  The band is called Full Service, and I advise everyone to look them up and have a listen.  Each song is different from another, and they are all cool in their own way.  Sean plays the bass which is super cool and reminds me of when I used to see my dad play with his siblings.  Its been a while since I have seen that though.  I got to play whiffle ball the next day with the band which was SWEET! I can't wait to live somewhere and make friends and do cool stuff like that.  I guess they are always playing pick up games of soccer, volleyball, whiffle ball you name it, and I am just so jealous.  I had so much fun playing, and it made me miss organized sports really really bad. Even being on the road on tour these guys always make time to work out and have fun.  Exercising in different ways is so important, and it made me want to go to a plain old gym so much less.

I left Philly after a good night of hanging out with Arin (we didn't go out for Cinco De Mayo) and started my way across the country.  It was Sunday and apparently the camp site that I was planning on staying at was closed.  I decided to make it more fun for myself and instead drive when I wanted, take naps, and take long breaks.  I cruised through Pennsylvania, and then Ohio, and then West Virginia (which was like a flash), and then into Indiana.  I decided to sleep in my car at a rest stop on i-70 just outside of Indianapolis.  I think it was pretty safe, I didn't feel scared all night, and in a red prius next to me there were two people sleeping also.  I am assuming it was two girls because about every hour or so all night I would here the beep beep beep of their car being locked, but I never heard a door close.  Must have been scared that it magically unlocked itself during the night.

I woke up to a beautiful pink sunrise, and snapped a few photos with the truckers in the background.  I wanted to beat the traffic into Indianapolis so I departed and listened to a Stuart Woods novel on cd.  Oh Stone Barrington, you scandalous man you. I had an awesome time at a rest stop in Illinois where I did 5 rounds of push ups and dips on a bench, did a lot of jump rope, and read a bunch of my book.  I want to hula hoop during my next set of travels which begins tomorrow.  I was too embarrassed so far to do it, but I need to get over that.  I am not normally a shy or easily embarrassed person, but sometimes it just strikes me rough.  I drove sweaty the rest of the way to Missouri and here I am now.

Sara and I went to some wineries today and bought some awesome wine.  We drove into Herman, MO which is a beautiful place on earth. On the way we passed a turtle making his way across the road.  Yes, we turned around and I jumped out and saved the poor little guy. We are watching We Bought A Zoo, really great movie, and then waking up to do some sunrise yoga.  Then I have to hit the road.  Tomorrow is gonna be a long day.

To traveling... cheers