Me and Troy leave for San Francisco in 18 hours. I've spent part of my day preparing for the move - packing and such - and it's starting to hit me that in just a few days I will no longer be a North Carolinian. Oh - and recovering from the uncanny amount of alcohol consumed last night with the folks out at the bar. It was unnatural, really. But back to the fact that I'm moving to California tomorrow...

Holy. Shit.

We're planning on taking Interstate 40 all 3000 miles of the trek. It takes us from here in Chapel Hill all the to California. 3000 miles! It wouldn't be quite so bad if it wasn't ALL on the same highway. My dad bought me a GPS device for the trip (in all fairness I protested) and it tells you how long until the next turn. Wonderful...

3009 miles until next turn...

2756 miles until next turn...

2243 miles until next turn...

Coupled with the fact that we'll be driving through such exciting states as Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico - I think we may indeed drive each other insane.

In any case, I'll post updates here as soon as I arrive. Troy is hoping to take pictures with every "Welcome to Our State" sign - so if he really is so ambitious I'll make an effort to post those as well. We're leaving Sunday evening in hopes of arriving Tuesday. We'll see about all that.