Monday, June 13, 2005
Well, I am about 1500 miles into my vacation now.
I left Terre Haute last saturday for Fort Wayne, then headed to Detroit to pick up some people at the ariport. I was in Detroit for most of a week for a conference involving my senior project (check out the stuff at www.challengex.org) and took people back to the airport Thursday afternoon.
I crashed at my uncle's place near downtown Detroit after a nice dinner, then headed up to Waterloo, Canada to spend time with some friends that are also in Challenge X. They have a very nice school: we spent most of the afternoon just chilling on a deck where I got pretty sunburnt and where we had an Indian-off. These are Indians with dots, not feathers, and the two guys are Canadians of Indian descent and get a kick out of doing the cliched Indian accent (Thank you, come again) for the rest of us. I headed out of Canada, stopped at Niagara falls on the Canadian side, and drove along the southern coast of Lake Ontario through New York. Saturday night was spent in the third smallest incorporated village in the state of New York, and Sunday morning was driving through the amazingly beautiful Adarondiac National Forest. It was cloudy and misting a little, which added to the surreal beauty of the area. I was going to get to Vermont via Hwy 17, but couldn't find the bridge, so I ended up taking a ferry across. I think it was the better choice.
I got to New Hampshire last night and met up with my friend Brian who just finished his BE at Dartmouth College. He was supposed to join me for a trip to Maine's Acadia National Park, but his girlfriend wigged out when I got here and basically gave him an ultimatum of 'me or this trip' and he wussed out. I just wish she had done so a few days earlier when I was still in Detroit and hadn't driven an additional 1000 miles to get out here. Since I really don't feel like going to Maine alone, I got ahold of one of my friends who has a job in Boston, and I get to go help him look for apartments tomorrow, and then we will head down to NYC to stay with my sister Wednesday night and head back to Indy starting Thursday afternoon. I figure we make 7 hours of the drive on Thursday and get back to the Indy airport Friday afternoon.
Once I get back, I will probably spend a day recovering from all the driving since it will be well over 3000 miles when I am done, and then finish moving out of my apartment and down to my new one. I have a lot of my stuff, it is just that a fair amount of what is left is either too big for my car or too heavy for me to lift of both. I need a boy (or several) with trucks and muscles :-)
Going to be interesting :-) girls and boys are silly. grr.
I left Terre Haute last saturday for Fort Wayne, then headed to Detroit to pick up some people at the ariport. I was in Detroit for most of a week for a conference involving my senior project (check out the stuff at www.challengex.org) and took people back to the airport Thursday afternoon.
I crashed at my uncle's place near downtown Detroit after a nice dinner, then headed up to Waterloo, Canada to spend time with some friends that are also in Challenge X. They have a very nice school: we spent most of the afternoon just chilling on a deck where I got pretty sunburnt and where we had an Indian-off. These are Indians with dots, not feathers, and the two guys are Canadians of Indian descent and get a kick out of doing the cliched Indian accent (Thank you, come again) for the rest of us. I headed out of Canada, stopped at Niagara falls on the Canadian side, and drove along the southern coast of Lake Ontario through New York. Saturday night was spent in the third smallest incorporated village in the state of New York, and Sunday morning was driving through the amazingly beautiful Adarondiac National Forest. It was cloudy and misting a little, which added to the surreal beauty of the area. I was going to get to Vermont via Hwy 17, but couldn't find the bridge, so I ended up taking a ferry across. I think it was the better choice.
I got to New Hampshire last night and met up with my friend Brian who just finished his BE at Dartmouth College. He was supposed to join me for a trip to Maine's Acadia National Park, but his girlfriend wigged out when I got here and basically gave him an ultimatum of 'me or this trip' and he wussed out. I just wish she had done so a few days earlier when I was still in Detroit and hadn't driven an additional 1000 miles to get out here. Since I really don't feel like going to Maine alone, I got ahold of one of my friends who has a job in Boston, and I get to go help him look for apartments tomorrow, and then we will head down to NYC to stay with my sister Wednesday night and head back to Indy starting Thursday afternoon. I figure we make 7 hours of the drive on Thursday and get back to the Indy airport Friday afternoon.
Once I get back, I will probably spend a day recovering from all the driving since it will be well over 3000 miles when I am done, and then finish moving out of my apartment and down to my new one. I have a lot of my stuff, it is just that a fair amount of what is left is either too big for my car or too heavy for me to lift of both. I need a boy (or several) with trucks and muscles :-)
Going to be interesting :-) girls and boys are silly. grr.
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