No vacancy

There are no hotel rooms anywhere in central PA. There are also no people. Lydia and I are jamming to Otis redding Christmas music and trying to stay awake. We may have to camp out of necessity! Don't tell anyone but I'd rather sleep in a hotel than a tent tonight. I am not quite in tent mode yet.

Things I have learned so far:
1) Lily has a weird way of whistling
2) Lily drives quickly
3) PA doesn't take kindly to vacancies
4) We didn't have dinner but I'm not hungry. Why?

Miles: 230. We are about 130 miles behind schedule.


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Location:Rock Rd,State College,United States

The Keystone State

We are now in Pennsylvania. Some people call it the Keystone State, which is nonsense.

Miles: 75

We are way behind schedule. So far we have not seen any bears.


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Location:Indian Mountain Lks,Effort,United States

First Road Trip Post

Hello world! Road trip has started. So far there is a lot of traffic. For example,



Miles: 1/2

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Location:Broome St,,United States

Listen, just because I'm on a road trip doesn't mean I'm not going to post stupid videos of animals

Excitement

The 2011 iteration of the Great American Road Trip starts in 24 hours. Who's excited? This year's trip will be a modest affair, on account of me having a job and responsibilities and things. Lame!

Anyway, playing the role of copilot, navigator, trip-instigator and car-owner will be Lily "Lydia" Desmond. Her real name is lydia, so I guess that's backwards. She has a house on an island called Cuttyhunk, which is not Martha's Vineyard but is close. She has 87 degrees. She is an aunt, but is not that old. She is basically unemployed but will one day work at my firm. And she has never driven coast-to-coast, but has already provided some great idears, mostly involving food.

Then there is me. Today I am wearing a suit. In 24 hours I will be wearing flannel hiking attire. Like this:


Huzzah.

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Location:Monroe St,,United States

Hey what's the GART route? Huh?!

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You'll probably have to zoom out to see it all.

Good news/Bad news

Good news - for everyone - I think I'm gonna start posting more non-politics stuff. For example, videos of cool things, like this.

Mindrelic - Manhattan in motion from Mindrelic on Vimeo.

In other words, "I <3 NY" and whatnot.

Bad new - also for everyone - the economy is really doing poorly and everyone in Washington is focused on the deficit, which does about zero for fostering economic growth today (it affects things like 10 years from now).