Day One, August 5th
we left at 6:56 am, on august 5th passing by all the losers waiting at the bus stop to go to school. We laugh loudly, with the window down, pointing. then move on.
7:39 | we make our way onto i95. oh baby we’re on our way.
8:28 | car problems. while in the passing lane, beth looks down just as the electrical equipment turn off. the car is dead? she shifts into neutral and restarts it. luckily it did not slow us down, or force us to get off the highway.
8:54 | we hit some traffic in Jacksonville. kerry is already sleeping, just 15 miles to the Georgian border.
9:04 | beth is hungry and demands food to be passed up front.
9:23 | GEORGIA BORDER CROSSED, we will be stopping soon to pee.
9:51 | first drug bust spotted on the side of the road. with kids. too bad.
10-10:08 first stop of the trip. bathroom used while jen loads up on the parrot ice.
10:20 | as we pass Car Head River, beth does her best impression of a demented car.
11:01 | exit 100. not really sure why this was logged.
11:12 | SOUTH CAROLINA
11:27 | beginning of kerry’s nakedness
12:08 | jen starts to get tired.
1:06 | 20 miles from Florence, looking forward to south of the border, jen awakes out of her stupor and receives a phone call from her papa.
2:00 | visited south of the border to prove to jen how much it really does suck. it was dirty and run down, not what jen expected. but even more than beth remembered.
2:40 | second drug bust, complete with a larger deployment of cops.
3:14 | the first hint of traffic does not slow down beth, who has been able to maintain about 80mph.
3:30 | we arrive at JR’s, a well-known outlet store that also yields disappointment. while getting back into the van kerry hits her head, marking the first road trip injury.
4:00 | we arrive at the final destination, kenly north Carolina. beth and jen crash while kerry, who maintained nothing more than a semi-conscious state throughout most of the trip, watched tv. after jen stirred, the two went to purchase wendy’s and allowed the driver to catch up to their state. beth likes being woken to eat. hahahaha.
7:30 | after being bored, the three get in the car looking for something to do. they end up driving up to the next town and cruising. saw lots of cute houses, but few people. very dull country town.
Day 2, August 6th. starting off at 9 am
Reflections of the previous night by Jen:
Lastnight we played a heated game of cards. we actually got to play all rounds. the funniest moment was when beth got up to get a drink or something and fell backwards over her suitcase. (SECOND ROAD TRIP INJURY) “I woke up to a bruised ass” quotes of beth the morning after. Also her glasses broke, the screws kept falling out. but she fixed it with tape for the time being. 3RD ROAD TRIP INJURY: kerry again bumps her on something. 4TH ROAD TRIP INJURY beth slaps jen hard on her arm since she hasn’t experiences an injury.
card statistics: beth, 420. jen, 415. kerry 530.
last night kerry tried to molest jen – jen doesn’t get much sleep because of it.
12:47 | see another car pulled over by police. Beth re4marks: “I live in florida, and I drive better than all of you.” her cockiness will obviously catch up with her at some point in the trip.
2:00 | time for rest. we leave the highway and head for the White Marsh Towne Center. Beth cant wait for Kerry and Jen to experience Ikea, a furniture store favorite amoungst the halpenny’s. Sears to fix beth’s glasses, which at this point we missing both screws. After screwing around for about an hour and half, a stop at Exxon to fill up and junk up. kerry buys recees only to taunt beth with. for some reason, she didn’t want to eat them, but obviously gave in. I got some Doritos and a milkyway light.
3:50 | back on the road, and beth almost makes the first directional slip up, but corrects herself early enough to merge onto i95 north; not south!
3:54 | kerry harasses beth with recees pieces again.
4:02 | “it’s getting hot in here” comes on again for the 12th time. Beth passes a truck and freaks out. earlier quote: “sometimes if I stare at the tires on the trucks they look like they keep coming closer and they’re about to cross the line when in actuality, they never do.” my response: “so just don’t look at the tires.”
4:05 | more booty music.
4:40 | second accident passed. saw a sexy lady fire fighter.
4:45 | we cross the NEW JERSEY border and beth receives a phone call from her father, via jens cell phone. her father informs her that her van’s radiator is shot but as jen hands her the phone she puts it up to her ear with the key pad facing outwards. laughter erupts and consumes the van. beth is a cell phone idiot and thus becomes mocked throughout the remainder of the trip for not knowing how to talk into a cell phone.
4:56 | jen is parussing map. as she comes to florida, she says: “haha! we’re are so far away from you,” (pointing to a city she thinks is our Orlando) Then beth glances and says, “jen, that’s not Orlando. you’re pointing at west palm beach, dumbass.” jen laughs at herself.
5:00 | kerry is cold for the 10th millionth time. only 100 miles!
10:00 | we all took a walk around Hoboken, the weather being a beautiful crisp night. unusually cool for the summer. a walk to the east meets our three with the skyline of manhatten as the sun sets.
11:00 | kerry kicks butt in cards 1st 2 rounds only to be killed by matt in #3, with no other rounds played for sake of sleep.
as the night closed, karens cookie box was completely empty.