so i kept a running twitter log of things i did and saw while i was travelling. for your amusement, a road trip in 140 characters or less.
12/17, 11:41 pm: getting a milkshake for my drive south. miss my love already, but so jazzed to see my friends!
12/18, 2:18 am: dear henderson, north carolina: blow me. no open gas stations at all? come ON.
12/18, 5:17 am: welcome center, south carolina - that means a 20-minute pause for the cause before pressing on. naptime...
12/18, 6:19 am: greenville, SC: starbucks and hardee's at one exit. heaven.
12/18, 7:59 am: georgia welcome center: mmm. 5 more minutes of napping?
12/18, 10:47 am: AL welcome center: another state line crossed, another nap. so close. by the time i get to MS, had better be repealed...
12/18, 1:11 pm: greenville, AL: just like HS trips to youth leg, having lunch. makes me miss the man. getting closer to the pelican state...
12/18, 3:25 pm: gautier, MS: and down goes . beautiful day, beautiful moment.
12/18, 4:16 pm: et maintenant, bienvenue en louisiane. :)
12/19, 1:05 am: hammond, LA: drunk. smelling of cigarette smoke. desperately sleep-deprived. in a club. wish i was in bed with my man. i missed LA. really.
12/19, 11:34 pm: baton rouge, LA: my friends are amazing people. i love them dearly, and i miss them when i'm not here. LSU law 2010 for life.
12/20, 7:01 pm: new orleans, LA: my heart is this wondrous city, with its love and its life. so glad to be [spiritually] home.
12/21, 10:04 am: slidell, LA: morning coffee in the place where i learned to love estate planning. on the road again...
12/21, 10:07 am: aaaand there's the first rebel flag of the trip. four days in - think that's a record...
12/21, 10:40 am: gulfport, MS: too many memories. so much sin, in the buckle of the bible belt no less. makes me miss someone...
12/21, 4:38 pm: gulf shores, AL: my beach. god, i missed you.
12/22, 12:49 pm: mobile, AL: in the old life, i ignored people who mattered before i met him. that will never happen again. here's to true friends.
12/23, 12:37 pm: my family is exasperatingly sweet and amazing. prying and fussing over me across the miles. i feel claustrophobic and loved. :)
12/24, 8:38 am: mobile, AL: thus ends the "friends" portion of the trip; now begins the "family" portion. 80 hours till i'm home to him...
12/24, 1:36 pm: crestview, FL: met a middle school classmate in the gas station. small damn world...
12/24, 4:34 pm: moultrie, GA: and with that, i reach the edge of AT&T service. no phone, no internet for the weekend.
[here begins twitter-style note-taking on my phone]
12/24, 5:40 pm: tifton, GA: sharing a building here are the "southern heritage supercenter" (white guys) and "dirty south outfitters" (black guys). laughing together outside, dude in rebel-flag bandanna and dude in tupac shakur t-shirt. SO confused.
12/25, 4:12 pm: fitzgerald, GA: being a progressive southerner is a double-edged sword - so much good, so much cringeworthy...
[back to twitter]
12/25, 7:20 pm: arabi, GA: snow in DC = leaving family in a mad rush to get home. this'll be a long 24 hours...
12/25, 11:45 pm: greenville, SC: i swore i'd never eat christmas dinner at a waffle house again. [ed: there's a story here - another time.] and yet, here i sit. good times.
12/26, 12:31 pm: dinwiddie, VA: dear VDOT - it's a good thing that 18-wheeler flipped over. makes the fact that you left I-85 icy as hell obvious. grrrr.
12/27, 11:19 am: finally back home. great trip, but it's so damn good to be with him again...
quite an adventure. back to regular programming tomorrow!