I guess there are some times that being resourceful and innovative just doesn't pay the dividends you'd like. After doing a lot of searching and investigating and dragging of routes on Google Maps, I have discovered that if you're going to drive across the United States, you just have grin and bear it. You have to drive a long time. A really long time. Like at least 40 hours or, in our case, more like 46 or 47. We're going Lynchburg to Memphis (my brother and sister-in-law's place) on the first day, Memphis to something halfway to Denver on the second, that place to Denver (my aunt and uncle) on the third, Denver to Boise (Kirsten's aunt and uncle) on the fourth, and then Boise up into Washington on the last day. I was really hoping for some kind of wormhole or something awesome like that (it's just the sort of thing that would hide out in the middle of nowhere in some place like Kansas), but even if any do exist in the US, it's unlikely that you could drive a Toyota into them and equally unlikely that they would be published (even on the internet, old reliable thing that it is). The resulting realization from my research, and a reality that is settling a little more heavily on me every day like some kind of dead thing I have to carry around, is that I have a really long drive in front of me, and there's nothing I can do about it. So what I want to know from you is this: what do you do to make long drives interesting? It will probably be just Kirsten and I making the drive, but there's an outside shot that two of our friends may be able to come with us. Either way, we need some entertainment. Anyone made a ridiculously long road trip before that you want to share about? How did you make it tolerable? We're dying to hear about it. Let me know. Thanks ahead of time.
Also, while I'm at it:
- The second night will be a stop in either Kansas City or Wichita, the former by way of Missouri from Memphis, the latter by way of Oklahoma from Memphis. Any input on which is better?
- Going from Denver to Boise, anyone know whether a lot of northeastern Utah is better than a lot of southern Wyoming and a little northern Utah?
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