1200 miles later...

I'm here!

I am currently sitting on the patio of the 'Common Grounds' coffee shop in Waco. It's right across the street from Baylor Univ which is like 10 minutes from our house. Its closed but we're getting free WiFi. I'll be making more visits here for sure. I'm also listening to a CD that's titled "Music I Love" that Stephanie gave me in a care package. It makes me smile with every new song....It's got blindside, some weird male folk quartet, and music from Mulan so far. Mmhmmmm.

Welcome to Waco. I have traveled halfway across the country in two days. I had made all these exciting plans to make it a valuable roadtrip. However, I did not plan on only getting 3 hours of sleep Sunday night (due to packing and laundry procrastination) and then traveling 12 hours the next day. I was tired to say the least.

I drove from Greensboro through Atlanta and into Alabama before we stopped for lunch. Then after lunch, Kaitlyn took over the reins and I consequently slept through most of Alabama and Mississippi. So much for seeing the deep south. We stopped in Vicksburg, Mississippi to eat dinner and get a hotel room. We picked it back up this morning at 11am (got some amazing sleep). And drove the remaining 6 hours to Waco. We saw the headquarters of MissionWaco and dropped our stuff off at the intern house. My next post will include pictures of the house for sure.

So to make this more exciting, I figured I would do a '10 list' from the road trip. This is random and I haven't planned what they'll be. Let's go:

1. Cops - This is my summary: Carolina loves cops. The rest of the south has smaller budgets. We saw probably 40 cops in the Carolinas on Monday (Memorial day). I can't say I saw 5 in the rest of the south. What's up with that, Carolinas?

2. Armadillos - I saw my first armadillo as roadkill on the side of the road. The next 20 weren't as exciting. However, I learned that they're Texas' primary roadkill (no squirrels, deer, or stray dogs).

3. Grass - Texas has got it. It's not some sandy ghost town like you might think. It's humid too. Liars said it wouldn't be. The temperature today was like 90. oh geeeez

4. Mississippi River - Was really cool to see. Our hotel in Vicksburg was right next to the river and I could see it from my room. It also had very impressive bridges as to use to cross it :] I waved to Huck Finn when we drove over into Louisiana. This is a picture I didn't take...but our hotel was right next to these:


5. Bonnie & Clyde - I told some of you that I was going to go see the place where they were slaughtered and I DID! It was just on this windy country road with NOTHING but trees all around.

6. Rain - When it rained it poured so hard we couldn't see. Thank you, summer storms.

7. Atlanta - I hate you. Traffic was horrible and confusing. And it rained while we were trying to navigate you.

8. Garmin - It's a love/hate relationship. I love you because you save me so much trouble in trying to find my way across this lovely country. I hate you because your British voice gets on my nerves after the first 3 hours and you repeat yourself so much I feel like you're yelling at me.

9. "Supreme Court Justice" - We listened to the radio the entire time today and with every Christian radio station I found, I heard the story probably a dozen times of President Obama's appointment. The phrase will probably cause me to vomit every time I hear it from now on. More reasons to hate politics.

10. West Nile - I have it...probably. I have mosquito bites on top of mosquito bites from sitting outside of this closed coffee shop the last hour, writing to you. At least, it's cooler than swine flu.

I'll think of a thousand other things to tell you, but for now that's the best I've got. I'll include more pictures of my surroundings next time.

Thanks for reading. Peace to you.