upward focused.

Continued... Drove through the night.  Good idea? Probably not.  But it gave us more time in other places.  Plus the states we missed:  Our Kansas Arkansas and Oklahoma.  I am okay with that.  Rotated drivers probably every two hours.  We all were getting so tired.  Couldn't sleep in the back.  Restless.  Watched Dan drive.  Saw him start blinking for longer amounts of time.  Woke up Arthur.  Told him to pull over because he was FALLING ASLEEP.  Switched drivers.  Finally the morning the came.  Stopped at a truck stop to shower.  It was so nice!! Erika and I got us a deal on showers from the janitor.  After we were finally clean, we ate breakfast.  The waitress thought Dan was crazy.  His laugh was so loud.  We were delirious.  Drove some more.  Got a hotel.  Slept like babies. 

Lets see if I can sum up the rest of the road trip in one more blog post.  I left off after day two, seeing the smaller but FREE version of a waterfall that was just as cool, practically visiting the United Kingdom and seeing Foamhendge, and finishing the day off with pictures next to the largest guitar we had ever seen.   And of we go finishing the rest of the trip...

Normally, I don't get too excited for the holiday season until about November but this year everything has changed. Maybe it's because I am extremely excited for these next few months because I get to spend them with the man I love and my wonderful family and friends.  So many great things will be happening!

6 long years ago I was a 16 year old high school student without many cares in the world, playing soccer every day and hanging out with friends in between that.  Homework wasn't a top priority and my future was too far away to care too much about.  But looking back I would have slapped myself upside the head and nodded in disapproval at the sheer laziness I possessed.  I wish I would have taken my life more serious because little did I know, what happens in the future is dependent upon your actions in the past.  

I've talked about the trip to New York, the craziness of trying to buy a car, and the adorable proposal that all took place within the first couple days of this road trip we were going on.  Now its time to talk about the road trip itself.  What we had planned for the first day of the road trip was to leave bright and early at 8:00AM, bags packed and car filled up with gas. However, as life particularly goes... we were late.  We ended up leaving at around 1:00PM after picking up the rental car (which took a while), eating pizza waiting for the rental car (a great way to pass time), and watching the rain POUR outside the small car rental shop.  Interesting start to our trip but still good, nonetheless.   If you have not heard of roadtrippers.com, you really should check it out! It made our trip even more fun because we were able to stop at these oddball stops that no one has really heard about, that weren't the typical "tourist" stops. Erika had mapped out what stops