"Is My Pillow Wet? I Might Have Drooled On It"

I’ve made it home alive!

My last week of work was pretty sad. I only worked one day at each internship because I had finals and packing for our trip home. I’m going to miss everyone so so much!

Sketchy 1am gas stop

Saying “goodbye”…ahem, “see you soon” to California, was really hard, especially when we were driving in cold weather and SNOW!

"if I get back to Chicago and it's snowing I'm going to cry"

Elliot lives in Wisconsin and had to drive his car home too, so to make it easier, Elliot's brother and his brother's fiance flew out to drive his car so Elliot and I could drive my car!

We took the northern route Starting Friday, 6 hours from Cali to Nevada. driving right through VEGAS!!! (I wish my pictures weren't so blurry, otherwise I'd post them)

Where we stopped in Nevada

Saturday morning we headed from Nevada, through Utah, Colorado and finally stopped for the night in Nebraska!

Shannon gave us her best movie scores mix CD so we were listening to the most epic and beautiful music (like the music nerds we are) driving through mountains and desert.

We drove 15 hours and crossed into both mountain and central time on Saturday.

Sunday we finished our last 10 hours driving through Nebraska, Iowa, and finally ILLINOIS! I used to hate Iowa, don’t ask me why because I won’t tell you…and it’s not because of the corn, because corn is delicious. But I will say driving through Iowa was not as horrible as I thought. I didn't really take any pictures in Iowa because it's basically nothing but fields and windmills, the mountains were definitely more enjoyable!

PS, This is not Iowa...

THIS, is Iowa...Adair Iowa

All in all, the drive was extremely enjoyable, the mountains and scenery were beautiful and the company was great. We had so much fun, laughed so hard our stomachs hurt and sang so loud I lost my voice a little.

We almost got hit by a bird, my purse almost flew out the window along with me, oh, and a semi almost took us out!

A road-trip I will never forget!

<3 Caity

Don't Worry Guys, I Found All The Birds

Our route!
click on the pictures for a larger view, all pictures taken by me and my dad of course

Day 2 down!

We’re in Flagstaff Arizona which has an elevation of 6,910 ft (2,106m) which is more then 4 ½ Sears Towers I guess. The day started off on time at 6am!

Texas

Dad drove till 9:30am, stopping in Texas then I took over for a whopping 6 ½ hours, feelin’ like a champion, thanks to the magic of cruise control (which was the first time I’ve ever gotten to use it), Monster Energy drinks, and some great music. I drove through the rest of Texas, then conquered pretty much all of New Mexico which was A DRIIIVE!

Lovin' the peppers!

New Mexico!

Dad took over for the last 2 ½ hours of our drive taking us to Flagstaff Arizona! (MST)

Lots of exciting things happened today on the road. For one, It was definitely more scenic than yesterdays drive. I saw rolling tumbleweed, how cool is that? I was definitely WAY too excited. Then we saw a series of road kill including two deer, a skunk, raccoon, and a coyote, they’re in a better place!

Arizona, I missed the sign for Arizona because I was on the phone with my mom because....

I received an interesting call from my mom today telling me the bank left a message at the house due to some mysterious charges… Clearly Bank of America is not reading my blog. I had to call and verify my entire life and then let them know that I was taking the semester in California. I’m sure I have put the bank through a lot with all my traveling in the past 2 ½ years.

Arizona Mountains!

SO CLOSE!

We’re about 6 ½ hours from LA and with the time change we will most likely arrive sometime between 11:30 am and 12:15pm (PST) at my apartment. I’m extremely excited, as soon as we enter California I will be playing every song known to man about California or that has the word California in it.

Yes hotel!

I can’t believe we are soooooo close. This has been such a great experience to drive to LA and see so much even if it all looked the same for a long time.

I can’t wait to get there tomorrow and blog all about my new place and neighborhood.

The end is near

<3 Caity