So.. Memphis.... We love it! My dad gave us a bunch of places to look at... Well.. Weve decided that this city is a times square type of city aka looks better at night..

So why do we love this city you ask? Bigfoot lodge! Aka our favorite restaurant! They have a burger called the sasquatch.. If you eat it all in 60 minutes, including the garnishes you get it free... What's the catch? Yeah its 4 pounds of meat, the hugest bun ever, a full pickle with a steak knife through it that goes through the whole thing, at least 10 pieces of lettuce, a full tomato, and a full red onion... How do we know? The kid at the tablenext to us got one! So I went over and I asked if I could take a picture.. He said sure.. He had already take the pickle out.. But it was still great.. All of his friends were loving that I asked too..

We got normal food and still brought half back with us.. Oh! And a deep fried pickle! They also had a huge bigfoot in the doorway which we took pictures with.. The host asked us if we were taking myspace pictures.. I told him what we were doing on our drive and he told us about some drunken roadtrip he took to nebraska..

Then we went back to beale street when it was finally dark.. Took a bunch of pictures.. Bought a few things, made a few single serving friends and headed back to the car to go get a hotel.. The heart break hotel doesn't have wireless! Its also double what we wanted to pay to be somewhere for 12 hours.. We headed towards the 55 and with our tightly packed car and a huge truck in the right lane.. We tried to get over but that didn't happen.. About 5 seconds later.. Arkansas welcomed us... And about 3 minutes later tennessee welcomed us back with open arms.. And so did the quality inn.. Unlike the econolodge last night, this hotels not gross..

We also went to sonic today.. We needed to get out of the car so we did the patio seating.. One waitress was on skates.. I would like a skating job.. I don't think itd be a good idea.. But whatever! I'd have fun still.. It was only raining on one side of the building... The other side, completely rain free..

Tomorrow were going to the graceland and the park where my dad did a sit in. I would hope hed have brought a lawn chair.. Or a blanket.. That's a whole lot of dirt to be attracted to clothes... I don't really like dirt..

I think I'm over the bloggings right now..

xwendix

Were in central time now..

Because were in tennessee and we will be for a while lets tell another wendi and kim story, shall we? Ok..

One time circa 2001 we decided we were in the mood to go watch matt play hockey.. We didn't know the exact location of this game but he gave us loose directions.. He told us all these streets and said get on "new highway".. Of course what did we say? "theres a new one now?"

We have this habit of not taking direction and making our own because e know where were going sometimes. We did it in jersey yesterday..

The night og new highway ridiculous.. We took the LIE to the road that we though we needed.. We clearly took a little too much initiative that night because we ended up at a 711.. Keep in mind 5 years later we know exactly where we were and where we should have been going.. But this time.. We went to the 711.. Here's how the conversation went with mr mans at the 711..

-Do you know how we can get to new highway?
-You need to get to the highway?
-No, the street name is new highway..
-What's that?
-The street that we need to get to.. Our friend said its by the movies..
-Are you going to the movies?
-What? No! We need to get to the street that's called new highway
-I don't know where that is..

Seeing as this was moving right along exactly the way we sould have wanted it, we gave up on him and walked out..

The best part about this is that we can't even remember if we went to the game that night...

I'm pretty sure that loses something in its translation, but the conversation was very similar to me fighting with the dsl people on the phone...

I think I need a nap.. I think I also might be getting a sinus infection..

xwendix

Were in tennessee... The state line is literally in an intersection... Gas is $2.94 which is awesome.. And it only took $47 to fill the car..

I'm pretty sure that within about 3 minutes of saying I was going to sleep last night I was out.. I didn't even wake up to the first alarm on my phone. I woke up to kim taking a shower.. The house keeping woman at the hotel asked us if we were from there... That was kinda funny.. Her eyes lit up when we said we were from new york though.. She as if we flew down there.. Then when we said we were driving cross-country she was kinda shocked..

And for michele and marisa.. Theres an oklahoma person driving next to us..

xwendix

So.. I can't get the wireless to work.. It connects and its so low that it keeps disconnecting me.. So pictures will have to wait..

An outlet just tried to kill me.. I plugged my phone charger in and got a shock in my whole hand that went across my whole chest into my other arm..

Were in bristol, virginia.. I'll let kim get to the fun of what got us here. But I had to inform the public of my near death experience...

We clearly have a following now.. Haha.. A whole 4 people that we know of.. Joseph, becka, my dad, and andy.. Were now famous in the blogging world..

Xwendix

Alrighty so after our first day I am exhausted. Thanks to everyone who kept us entertained during and throughout today's stretch of our journey. We got to where I was hoping we'd get to which makes me happy. Our mini side trip to lexington was nice enough. This part of va is very beautiful and very rural so it was interesting stumbling across a legit historical town that one of my professors talked about multiple times this semester because she went to William and lee.
The dinner we had in lexington- classic! We couldn't pass up eating at an establishment called country cookin. The food however wasn't as interesting as our experience in the parking lot which I simply deduce was the beginning of us lossing our minds suffice to say it involved laughing hysterically,not being able to find one of wendi's shoes for awhile and me wanting to ask an elderly couple from florida why they didn't have their car packed full of stuff. I was asleep a whole five minutes later and woke up two hours later-right outside of bristol. Tomorrow memphis! Nite!
kk

Virginia so far:
-Blew kisses out the window for carolyn and laura
-Bought jalepeño vienna sausages for jv along with hot peanuts
-Found out that pecan log rolls are really good according to the woman that works in the hess
-Figured out that while yure driving that the grossest flavors of pringles even look good... But aren't worth buying..
-I don't trust a 59 cent coconut
-That the word coconut wasn't in my phone until just now

I'm sure more has happened.. Now were listening to tim barry because it just seems right.. Kim should look into being a truck driver.. Homegirl just keeps wanting to drive!!!

xwendix

Maryland just welcomed us... Something good better happen in this state.. I just wrote like 5 minutes ago in pennsylvania...

I'll tell a story of the friedship of wendi and kim instead.. Its called "when the gym teacher accused wendi of not knowing how to count higher than 3"

Back in the day (1997) when we were in gym together I broke my ankle.. Not in gym.. But you get it.. After I was allowed to go back to the class and I was healed (as we know, I heal faster than.. Something that heals fast..

We just entered west virginia! Maryland treated us well!!

Anyway! We were supposed to run laps around the gym but I was still all fucked up in the leg area so running wasn't an option.. He told me to walk four laps when they were running 8.. I sad ok.. So I walked my 4 and sat down.. Mr mans decided that I only walked 3.. I said no.. I walked 4... Kim testified that I did in fact walk my 4.. But he decided that we both don't know how to count higher than 3.. And he tld me to walk another one..

As uneventful as that sounds, that's probabaly one of the reasons weve stayed friends all these years.. That was a bonding moment.. We still laugh about it and roll our eyes at how ridiculous we think he is..

West virginia just tried to kill us by letting one of their residents operate a vehicle... No one knows how to merge in this state do they???

xwendix

So were still in pa.. Were on 81 and we plan to be for a while..

For some reason some genius decided to build a cul-de-sac on the side of the highway... In the middle of nowhere.. Why would someone pick up one day and decide that they need to live not only in a modular house but on the side of a fucking highway.. Weve decided that ifwe lived there for some reason and we were having parties wed just tell people to pull over and walk down.. So much land and you need to have a dead end? I don't get this place...

Were living off cheez-its, twizzlers, blow pops, water, and juice boxes.. And by living I mean driving for 4 hours.. Ha..

xwendix

Pennsylvania so far is nothing to write home about so that's why it gets a blog... Were in gods country right now... We passed a dairy before and I laughed..

Were in dead stop traffic because they're doing roadwork... The trucker driving next to us keeps staring at us.. Its far from any kind of friends we feel like making right now..

I've already done a sugar overdose by eating twizzlers.. I half want to puke but I'm pretty sure I'll keep it in..

Boring so far... Something needs to happen soon or else I'm gunna have to start making things up!!

xwendix

Weve crossed into jersey.. The cars not as packed as it could have been.. My dad managed to make the laptop less fragile and we brought it with us..

I found a compartment in kims car to put all of our polaroids in.. Besides that, nothing eventful yet!!

xwendix

Off to an awesome start.....

So I asked my dad if I could borrow their extra laptop... The reason its extra: its got an "appendage" as my dad calls it... The power cords broken.. And it doesn't have a battery..

Yeah so I wanted to get on before we left and make sure that it still had photoshop on it from the last time I borrowed it.. Well that clearly was the worst idea possibly forthis piece of machinery.. I moved it about 3 inches and now I can't get it to turn back on..

So the bloggings with the pictures... Probabaly not going to happen now.. I at least have my phone which I'm now using to post this.. Oh which I figured it work on the regular site.. Well.. No.. I honestly feel more comfortable knowing that we have AN internet source while were driving.. Its not the one that I realy wanted to rely on but its good enough for now..

Kims getting here around 11 and then we set sail via the road.. I guess not hving the laptop with me will be better.. It makes one less thing to leave behind.. Now I'm staring that this dead laptop with a 3 inch arm of electrical tape that will stay 3000 miles from where I thought itd end up before going back home..

"this is what you call roughing it?"
"one bathroom for nine people? Yes!"

Yeah that's troop beverly hills.. This trip will be slightly more entertaining.. With way less attitude... And earthtones...

xwendix