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Let me just start off by saying that I am not a very adventurous person, physically. Mentally I'm in a different dimension. So getting out of little Rhody was huge. I've traveled to New York and other surrounding states in New England and along the Eastern coast, but never really across to California and back into the mid-west. What an experience, I must say. I went to so many places and in, around and across 27 different states in four weeks. I've been to the boarder of Canada and Mexico and I would do it all again. Just not with the same people. 

Never road trip with family. I swear avoid it with all your might. I love my sister and brother, but they don't like each other very much, and now it's worse. It's like freaking world war III around them. Before it was okay, they didn't get to each other that much, but no just the slightest hair out of place sends them to the battle field. They annoy the piss out of me. And don't get me started with my dad. Glad my parents are divorced so I get some peace. He's insufferable. All should be back to normal and fizz out in the next year.

Before I left I had the wonderful idea of sending postcards. And now I'm stuck writing forty, fifty cards. I've solved how to send them though. The people I see everyday, I'll just hand them the postcards and say "I missed you!" which is something they should expect from me. But being home is wonderfully glorious, even though I haven't gone outside since returning on Thursday. It's like I got drunk for so long I'm suffering from a giant hangover.

My favorite states had to be Utah, Montana, South Dakota, Arizona, and Nebraska. Utah was overall just a really nice day weather wise, and for me in general. Montana had this tourist trap of a shop. They made internet meme shirts! I almost bought a challenge accepted shirt, but settled for a shirt that says FREE HUGS that I now sport as pajamas. South Dakota was just beautiful, I really loved Mount Rushmore. Arizona is where my physics and chemistry teachers are from, and I loved all the scenery there. Nebraska was awesome. Not only because Kate lives there, but all the CORN! And the state forrest that took five minutes to drive through, the awesome diner in Alliance, my bus driver grew up there, the zoo was spectacular, and...CARHENDGE! Carhendge is like Stonehenge, but with cars. It was beyond awesome, and I left a Nerdfighter note there.

The worst of states you say? Indiana is literally hell on earth. It was around 90 degrees Fahrenheit, which was the hottest state we had visited yet and the mosquitos were on steroids or something. They were the size of dimes or a well-sized buttons, and extremely vicious. Then came Missouri. Really Missouri was awful. We broke down the second time we went through.  Then the 105 degree Fahrenheit weather in Oklahoma. I thought the worst of all was Texas, with it's 110-115 weather, but no. Nevada was 120 degrees Fahrenheit, only seven degrees cooler than freaking DEATH VALLEY. I can still feel my sweat soaked clothes. And even though those were the hottest states we went through, and my experiences were on the boarder of awful, I still have the most resentment for Tennessee. Stuck for four days because when the car was "fixed" in Missouri, it broke down at 10:00 at night on the side of a freeway, and had to get towed to Nashville four hours away in the back of a cramped tow truck with Larry the cable guy as the driver. It was torture because we were so close to North Carolina, where my dad lives, and we had a twelve hour drive to Rhode Island from North Carolina.

Leaving that aside though, it was a good trip. We had two theme songs. The main being Total Eclipse of the Heart because that's all my brother would sing, and Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Once we hit places like Montana and Tennessee, they literally used antlers in all of their decorating. But enough of that, you guys! I missed you! Campion happy belated birthdays, even though I think it was you who didn't enjoy your birthday. I'm saying it anyway. Deidra and Kayla you're going to University! Kate, Kira you're all in school! Adam I passed a comic shop in Indiana that was called "Comic Books and Things" which just made me laugh. And you liking and getting into comics makes me wish I had stopped there. I missed all of the Olympics, but I heard it was good. I'm not too concerned though.

I have ten days until school starts and six days to finish three books. Two I'm almost done with, but I haven't started the mandatory chemistry text yet. I'm taking the honor course which means I have to read that or I'll be starting the year off on the wrong side of a good teacher. now I'm stressed. And I'm taking Spanish 3 and I suck at learning languages. I have a habit of stressing myself out way too easily. So I'm going to try and finish those two books and start the chemistry one. Until next week.

~Katie