Selected Trip Journal entries:
9:54 PM PDT = STARTED ENGINE!! 2006 Ford Escape XLT V6. 9057 Odometer miles. 0.0 Trip Miles..
"If you leave, Dont look back..." on 106.5 FM...
WILL THIS BE THE ONE?
9:57 PM = Started!!
A trip 12 years in the making!!
10:08 = I'M ON MY WAY!!! "Roadtrip #1 CD": "Been Around The World..."
11:22/83.0 trip miles = "Walk of Life"; On I-80 East... Decision time coming up in 20 minutes -- Go NORTH or EAST?
11:35/98 miles = i'm goin to frikkin' ALASKA! OF COURSE NORTH!!!! (Joined I-505 NORTH)
"God Bless America" came on Roadtrip CD #2 and I almost lost it!! It's beginning to sink in ---- I AM GOIN' TO FRIKKIN' ALASKA!
"Am I only dreaming? Is This burning an eternal flame? ... Do you feel my heart beating? Do you understand?"
11:49/115.4 = I'm loosin' it...
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Lookin' For..."
Outside of my immediate family, one person in Texas and one person in B.C., I dont think anyone truly knows how much this trip means to me! I'm going to make it this time! All the way to the last frontier!
"Send me an angel..."
12:03 AM = 132 miles = I-5 North... going North...
I think a couple of people in India too...
And I'm doing this trip on my terms, just like I always wanted - no compromises, no matter what the cost. I wrote in an email today that I will come back home in case of emergency, but to hell with that! I dont care if my house burns down, I'm still completing this trip as intended -- nothing else is acceptable!
12:34 AM = Left rest area to the tune of "Star Sprangled Banner" followed by "God Bless America" again ... "From the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam" ... I really do love this country -- from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans white with foam -- it's all mine -- my home sweet home!
"A Whole New World" ... "Unbelievable sights, indescribable feelings, soaring tumbling revealing through an endless diamond sky ... dont you dare close your eyes... a hundred thousand things to see...."
1:22 AM / 221.5 miles = I've been driving with the moonroof open last 10-15 minutes, and its a starlit night... I wanna watch the sun come up in the morning... Passing thru Red Bluff now (x647) ... 1:25 AM, 225 miles.
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