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Happy Guy Fawkes day.

Unfortunately I will not be participating in the burning of any effigies today, but I think the picture works just as well. I suppose depending on witch camp your from you might burn the Pope today... but even though I'm not Catholic I still feel wary of even looking for a picture of that.

So in the last few days not much has gone on really. Planning has taken most of our time. The car is now half packed for tomorrow's departure. My brother has been trying to pimp my car out so the trip is more comfortable for us and apparently we needed a beaded seat cover. I raised my eyebrow skeptically as I ofen do. We shall see how it works out. The first few moments I sat in it were not horrendous, and at least he had the good sense to get black. No sense making my car look tacky.

Surprisingly I'm not feeling all that excited. I'm not scared, I need to do this. For some reason it just seems like another day. Hopefully it will hit me when we get on the road. The exhaustion sure will. This trip has given me some interesting moments to ponder. While checking for cool roadside attractions on Google Earth I found the place in Belgium where I... broke the law. I guess that since I can't go back there this is the only way I can see it.

My thoughts are a bit of a jumble lately and not entirely because of the drugs. But I did just remember a random childhood memory. It's always odd how those memories come out of nowhere and always see like they only half happened to me. For some reason when I was younger I would occasionally search under my seat in our van and find a surprise. I never discussed it with my parents and I never knew why. Thinking back now I guess I could have been ruining the only hiding place that was outside the house. Things like that make me feel more guilty than the "big" things from my past. Not a heavy guilt, but more of a sorrow.

On a happier note- though it is rainy today it seems that for now our trip will be sunny and clear all the way to Las Vegas. Thank heaven for small things. Now if only my pain pills would kick in...

We leave tomorrow at or around noon sometime and I will be gone. It will be a long time before i get to come back but that really doesn't make me sad. I've spent enough time waiting, now it's time for action.

Most of the trip seems to be close to WiFi points so I am going to try to keep up day by day. We have plenty of memory cards for the camera so I expect there will be enough pictures to bore everyone. Hopefully next time I write will be from the road.

See you on down the road...



Always-




California here we come...