Well, hallelujah, praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition, folks!!! We are finally in Seattle after two loooooooong 13 hour days in the car and I finally have what seems to be a solid internet connection -- at least until I said that and my bars all disappeared. I guess I'll just keep typing and then when I get a full signal I'll copy all my words to make sure I don't lose them and then post them...argh crappy hotel wireless. I've noticed that hotels either have super great internet or internet that makes you want to launch your computer into tomorrow and more often than not it's the latter of those two.
We started out on Wednesday morning around 7:30 and plowed through western Nebraska - well actually almost all of Nebraska since I live in Omaha which is right on the Eastern border and oh. my. gosh. there is NOTHING there. I always knew that there was nothing in western Nebraska, but now that I've experienced it myself I KNOW.
I suppose I should also tell you before I go any further that I'm traveling with my dear friend, Jeremy, who is in the Coast Guard and is on his way to Alaska right now and I'm just along to keep him sane and hang out for a few days in Seattle before he catches his ferry to Ketchikan, Alaska. It's also important to mention that I have absolutely no idea whatsoever how he's made this trip at least three times without running himself and his vehicle off the side of the side of the road -- yeah it's that bad. It's pretty, but pretty is only entertaining for so long.
Ok, so we got through Nebraska in all of it's flat, non-hilled existence and then into Wyoming. It was not until this trip that I actually believed Wyoming existed -- I mean, think about it, what comes out of Wyoming???? Noooooothing. Wyoming had hills and rock formations which were quite drastic changes from the flat landscape of Nebraska, but I was left with one burning question: Why do people live there?!?! WHY?! Granted, I think there's only about 22 of those people, but why subject yourself to that?! Uy mio!
After Wyoming it was on to Utah. A very pretty state, but I still don't like it. I visited Salt Lake City with some friends in late 2006 and basically wanted to gouge my own eyes out. It's pretty, sure, but we just flat out did not like it, we didn't find the people very hospitable nor did we find any that had much personality -- we went to find something to eat at 8 o'clock downtown and nothing was open -- that's weird. So I've never been too fond of Utah, it's similar to my distaste of Evansville, IN -- I've just never had a pleasant experience there. So we arrived in Ogden, Utah around 7 or 8 o'clock on Wednesday night and after getting settled in our hotel we hit the local Olive Garden for some amazing salad and lots of pasta and after feeling like we hadn't ate in days it certainly hit the spot. Utah, this time, wasn't that bad, far better than my previous experience but I still can't say I like the state, but I do still think it's pretty.
After some good sleep we woke up on Thursday morning around 6:30 to grab breakfast, pack up and then head out again. The day's task: plug through the rest of Utah, across Idaho, through a part of Oregon and then for the looong stretch across Washington. We started off with a hearty breakfast of waffles and then filled up on gas to the tune of over $4 a gallon!!!! Ridiculous and we set off. The scenes were beautiful, even Idaho was fairly fun to look at. It started to get very green when we got into Oregon and by Washington there were only three color grey/black on the road, blue in the sky and green everywhere else. It was gorgeous! We got some amazing sky views on our trip -- absolutely beautiful clouds.
We finally got to Seattle at 6:30 pm last night. Just in time for rush hour!!!! After fighting Seattle traffic, we reached our hotel at 7, I don't think either of us have been happier to reach a hotel ever. We discussed dinner options and both agreed that neither of us wanted to see that car again for at least 12 hours so we found ourselves desperately finding any restaurant that would deliver to our hotel finally finding a Dominos. Dinner was filling, it certainly beat the Slim Jim, Riesen, and Oreo Cakester diet in the car. After the pizza, it was a Jeff Dunham DVD and SLEEP!
So, here I am, day 3 and finally in Seattle. We've got a few more things to do before we head out for a day of exploring. Can't wait. That all being said, it's important to give credit to those responsible for helping us get to Seattle they include: Margaret Cho, Chris Titus, Pablo Francisco, Mitch Hedberg, Dane Cook as well as our iPods.
Pictures to come soon as soon as my Photobucket decides to not be moronic.
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