Monday, July 28, 2008

Day one of the epic Superroadtrip

In numbers:
Miles traveled: 647
Rest stops taken: 2
States: 3- Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska
Volume of Coke consumed: 24 fluid ounces
Ham sandwiches eaten: 1
Gigantic lemons on trailers: 2
Gigantic Jesus statues in western Nebraska: 1
Albums listened to: 11
Avantasia- The Metal Opera Part Two; Equilibrium- Turis Fratyr and Sagas; Queensrÿche- Operation: Mindcrime; Radiohead- Amnesiac; Sonata Arctica- Reckoning Night; Blink 182- Enema of the State; Ensiferum- Iron; Daft Punk- Human After All; Blind Guardian- Nightfall in Middle Earth; Edguy- Burning Down the Opera.
Times I almost crashed into things/drove off the road: 3

Lessons learned:
Taking pictures while driving is very difficult and often stupid.
Reading texts while driving is also very stupid.
One should not try to both line up a shot and drive while looking through a camera's LCD screen- the time delay on the screen, while small, is significant enough for near-catastrophic, 80 MPH collisions with traffic cones to occur.
Don't accelerate to 88 MPH just so you can take a picture of the speedometer. There are cops lurking around, and you aren't driving the Delorean anyway.
Nebraska is, in fact, windier than Wyoming.

(Full write-up and lots of photos forthcoming)

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