so.. were in oklahoma and we finally have wireless.. i love this hotel.. haha not only did we get the last room BUT! the bible was already open and on our night table for easy access!

while driving through before we saw segregated cows.. no seriously.. were driving on rt 40 and to the right were the black cows and to the left were the white ones.. straight up racist! i wish icould have taken pictures but it was too fast..

i still love graceland.. and memphis..

its sad that the only reason i wish we were going through tulsa is to see the house from the outsiders.. which im sure probably isnt even there anymore since when they filmed that they cut a whole side off of it.. i was half hoping to reread the book on our way out here but ive been getting way too distracted every time ive even thought that i could start reading..

i have a billion pictures to show everyone but im not posting them until i can watermark em.. and im not watermarking them til i get home.. so if yuo care, youll have to wait :)

and now.. to watch fresh prince and go to sleep.. tomorrow - texas, new mexico, maybe arizona... and ill still miss memphis... and my puppy.. and my bed...

xwendix/augusta rae

So.. Graceland.. I love it.. My basemant is about 3 steps away frombeing the jungle room.. All I need is carpet on the walls, mirrors on the ceiling and animal print couches.. So great.. They had a furry bed with a radio in the headboard.. PIMP!!!! So fancy! His pool room was ridiculous and had fabric all over the walls.. I'm down, I want to move in..

I wanted to get a new belt buckle there but I had no luck so I'll just stick with my old elvis one..

Arkansas sucks.. For the first time in all of the places I've driven pretty much ever, we had to stop and pee for me.. Bugs are gross.. Everything smells weird.. And back a while ago we sawa dead coyote on the side of the road.. Oh! And it was 103 degrees according to the car.. Gross..

Micele and joseph have decided that our southern names are carolina (kim) and augusta rae (me)... I told them I'm in..

There was a sign for some truck place called maverick's.. Aww.. It made me miss my puppy.. They loves themselves some jesus signs down here though.. I know that.. For like 20 miles I saw at least 12 of em..

This state is boring.. I don't like arkansas.. I think it requires a nap..

xwendix/augusta rae

Arkansas....... Flat... I'm driving and kims navigating.. Stay tuned for more later..

xwendix

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