My Trip Up to College
Aug. 20th, 2015 07:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grimrose_eilwynnMy sister and I are moving into a new apartment up near our college. To this end, we and our parents went on a road trip together up to the college town, towing a U-Haul trailer full of furniture behind us.
Here's how the trip went:
Day 1:
We drove through desert, flat sand, dust devils, and sage brush, vast mountains and hot blue skies. We stopped for snacks, and also at a cigarette smoke filled casino to see the Al Schultz and Bonnie and Clyde cars. The signs were saying the cars were just waiting for their next adventure, as if daring someone to steal them.
We drove through all the bright lights of Vegas before stopping in a small town to sleep in a hotel.
My friend, the one I went to the movies with, congratulated me in a Facebook post that night:
"This girl is off to another grand adventure! I'm glad to have known you for so long! Since 1st grade you have been talking about being a writer and I'm so proud to see you pursue your dreams! Get it gurrrl! Good luck!"
Day 2:
We had breakfast at a cute little 50s-style diner called Peggy Sue’s. We drove past walls of red rock, past Mormon Temple spires, past long fields and blue mountains.
We had a snack at Dairy Queen.
We hit a bird on the freeway going 80 miles an hour. It died on impact and then hung off the broken side mirror before falling away. So that was startling and traumatizing. We think it might have been a ferruginous hawk.
It was a long, weary drive to the next hotel.
Day 3:
We’ve started encountering a lot of really friendly small-town rural people, especially in the form of waiters.
We drove today past green forests and rivers, through tiny little dot-on-the-map towns. We arrived in the college town, and after unloading all the furniture into our new apartment, we had dinner and beer at a delicious wood fired pizza place strung with fairy lights. (There was one in particular with apple and creamy white cheese sauce. Mmm...)
The next few days are dedicated to getting situated in our new apartment.
I've never lived in my own place entirely before -- I've only ever lived on my own in the dorms. School starts in a few days. I'm kind of nervous.
Here's how the trip went:
Day 1:
We drove through desert, flat sand, dust devils, and sage brush, vast mountains and hot blue skies. We stopped for snacks, and also at a cigarette smoke filled casino to see the Al Schultz and Bonnie and Clyde cars. The signs were saying the cars were just waiting for their next adventure, as if daring someone to steal them.
We drove through all the bright lights of Vegas before stopping in a small town to sleep in a hotel.
My friend, the one I went to the movies with, congratulated me in a Facebook post that night:
"This girl is off to another grand adventure! I'm glad to have known you for so long! Since 1st grade you have been talking about being a writer and I'm so proud to see you pursue your dreams! Get it gurrrl! Good luck!"
Day 2:
We had breakfast at a cute little 50s-style diner called Peggy Sue’s. We drove past walls of red rock, past Mormon Temple spires, past long fields and blue mountains.
We had a snack at Dairy Queen.
We hit a bird on the freeway going 80 miles an hour. It died on impact and then hung off the broken side mirror before falling away. So that was startling and traumatizing. We think it might have been a ferruginous hawk.
It was a long, weary drive to the next hotel.
Day 3:
We’ve started encountering a lot of really friendly small-town rural people, especially in the form of waiters.
We drove today past green forests and rivers, through tiny little dot-on-the-map towns. We arrived in the college town, and after unloading all the furniture into our new apartment, we had dinner and beer at a delicious wood fired pizza place strung with fairy lights. (There was one in particular with apple and creamy white cheese sauce. Mmm...)
The next few days are dedicated to getting situated in our new apartment.
I've never lived in my own place entirely before -- I've only ever lived on my own in the dorms. School starts in a few days. I'm kind of nervous.
