Day 1

10-12-09 Monday

I am going to Oregon to stay with Aunt Meredith. I couldn’t get a job in Tampa so Oregon will hopefully have better luck. I’m taking my car and driving across the US. Mom is coming with me so I don’t have to drive alone. I made a plan of where we will stop along the way. Today is Day 1 and we just left FL, now entering Georgia. We are driving up with Tim as far as Paducah. Tonight we stop in Atlanta to stay with Aunt Stella and Uncle Isaac. We can’t arrive before 9pm because she has class until then. We have to stall for time along the way up so we don’t arrive to early. We stopped at a rest stop to eat a picnic lunch. We brought along a video camera, my regular camera and a whole carload of stuff. There is barely any space left in the car its packed so tight. I forgot my Publix peanut butter, my favorite brand. I don’t think Oregon has a Publix so I was going to bring some with me. We almost forgot the GPS, had to go back for it right before we got on the interstate. We are listening to the music on my ipod. My music library is about 3 days long so we will hear each song on average 3 times during the trip. We brought 2 plants with us as gifts. The one in back is getting sunburnt, which I did not realize could happen to plants. The Florida violet is upfront and we will see if it makes it with out being squished. I am going to miss everyone in Tampa, all my friends which took me almost 4 years to develop friendships. I have no idea when I will be back, maybe months, maybe years? Hopefully I won’t be away too long, I don’t like making friends and then never seeing them again and losing them. I will have to make new friends in Oregon, but I can still keep in touch with people in FL with facebook. It’s raining now. I put rainex on my windshield before leaving and so the rain beads up and flies off. It’s very cool to watch. We are passing cottonfields on the right. They are actually kind of pretty, fields of white flowers. Mom does not like my Down With the Sickness Song.
So we arrived at Aunt Stella’s. We stopped at High falls on the way. It’s between Macon and Atlanta, a state park near a dam in the river. Very beautiful waterfall. There were some geese and a boardwalk, except that you couldn’t get to the boardwalk. It went out over the water and had a little sign explaining something, but it was not attached to dry land. There was a huge ditch in the way filled with water and no bridge to connect the boardwalk. We then stopped at a pizzeria for dinner. The food was ok, but not great and the building was outfitted rather cheaply. The weather here is beautiful, nice and cool but not too cold. I had to wear shoes and socks, not barefoot kind of weather. We gave the Fl violet to Aunt Stella.