I'm not unemployed anymore - I actually have a very fabulous job as a preschool teacher with the University of Michigan child care centers. But I'm still posting, albeit a little more irregularly, and I don't want to ignore the personal progress I've made since starting this blog by renaming it.

Blog inspiration: I read 48 States in 48 Days by Paul Jury in the summer of 2011. It was fabulous...although he planned way less for his roadtrip than I would have. And at the same time, my lovely Anna was constantly reminding me that our lives were awesome, despite the fact that we didn't have job prospects, new cars, boyfriends/husbands, houses, etc., like so many people we knew. So, in an effort to appreciate my life and the crazy uncertainty that it is, I started writing this blog about the little adventures I have. (And by "writing a blog," I mean "making a list" because I make lists, not narratives.) Even if there isn't a BIG adventure that happens every day, I try to find at least one thing to list :)

Friday, July 8, 2011

Woman Driving, Man Sleeping* (July 6)

*This was not the case the whole time...
  • Packing was a fun puzzle (Krystle had a little more stuff left than estimated). Good thing I like doing it :) There was even a relatively roomy space in the back for whoever was sitting there.
  • Before we left, Dave thanked me for being a great friend to Krystle :)
  • Leg #3 (NYC -> Cleveland) went well, with just a few detours. We ended up taking the wrong highway out of New Jersey, but it turned out okay. The new route was prettier and less hilly, with more places to stop, and we got to go through mountains (via tunnel)! I complained that it was a lot longer - but Justin was right, it was only an hour out of the way.
  • Krystle and I got rubber-tasting mochas from McDonald's in PA. It was weird. I returned mine and got another that tasted like rubber. Ew. I just threw it out.
  • Justin learned that requesting coconut shavings and chocolate sauce on his coconut frappuccino from a travel plaza Starbucks is really just too much to ask for.
  • Just to make sure that our trip would be complete, Team Brophy made sure we got lost on the way to Champp's. But they figured it out and we had really yummy food and a fantastic waiter. Plus we got to tell Jason about our NYC adventures and hear about how he bought a magazine subscription from a druggie.
  • I watched my first Star Trek episode with Justin.
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