Day 6

Today was a pretty low key day, because it was Sunday. We fulfilled one of Todds dreams of going to a Braves game at Turner Field. The game was won by a homer in the eighth inning. So sweet. We logged five hours of drive time today. I felt so content and happy just laying on Todds lap watching the trees of Carolina pass out the windows. It was a peaceful perfect day. Kind of lame paying four dollars a gallon for gas, but what do ya do. We cracked up at some of the people of Atlanta... some were soo ghetto. We've never seen more gold teeth, or dreads with bandannas in our lives, alot different than the street of Salt Lake. We are getting quick at packing and unpacking our little toaster R.V. I'm sure by day 28 we'll have it down to no time flat. Now it's time to watch a little modern family and settle in. Goodnight from North Carolina. Tomorrow we hit D.C!

Great American Roadtrip

Greetings from Atlanta Georgia! We are having the time of our lives. In five days we have covered a good part of the country and crossed alot of things off our bucket lists. This country is beautiful, and the people are amazing. We have had fun just hanging out in the car talking, playing the guitar and just being together. These pictures are a few highlights. Unfortunately blogger takes forever to upload, but facebook doesn't. So if you want to follow us, check out our facebooks. Today we changed our plans a little bit and decided to throw over visiting the smoky mountains for an Atlanta Braves baseball game, just a little three hour detour, but so worth it. Atlanta is Todds favorite team. T minus 12 hours till game time. Go Braves. (oh and we are only on day five of our trip, I accidentally put day 8 in Nashville)

Road Trip Day 1

Day one: 13 hours drive time, 832 miles covered, 4 states, 5 innings of baseball, 4 tanks of gas, 2 minor quarrels about organization (don’t judge us-- I worked all night, and Todd stayed up late preparing) and one AMAZING dinner at Stuebens restaurant later, we successfully made it through our first day. We were tickled to death when everything actually fit in the car. (I have a different outfit for all 28 days) Todd made me a little bed and I slept the whole way to Denver. We fell in LOVE with Denver the second we drove into the city. It looks like you are going to drive straight into the pitchers mound on Coors field. We saw the lights and the people and realized there was a Rockies game going on. We were BEYOND stoked because two home town boys Clayton Mortensen and Matt Lindstrom were in the bull pen. Matt actually pitched an inning and went three up, three down. We went and yelled at Clayton in the bull pen and he waved. I told EVERYONE around me that I grew up with Clayton and that we were really good family friends. It was weird to see him in a Colorado Rockies uniform, instead of the Madison Cats one I grew up watching him in. Freaking CRAZY that he is in the big leagues. Go Morty. After the game we drove three or four more hours until we finally settled down for the night. You could say night one didn’t go completely as expected. We had a harder time fitting everything in the front two seats than we originally anticipated. It was really fun though, plus or minus the part that we were dead tired and I had a minor panic attack because I thought we were trapped in the car, and having to brush my teeth with contact solution. Overall though, day one was awesome. I thought it would be hard to drive that long, but we breezed right through it just chatting and singing the whole way. I can’t wait to see what day 2 holds!Picture to come tomorrow hopefully, 3G can only do so much...

Half way there ...

The Place

The Graduate (with honors might I add)

The Motivation

The Brother

The Support

5 days to go!

We have been playing upholsterists for the last few days. Todd had this genius idea to get pads from an upholstery shop cut them to fit the element, and then cover them ourselves. We spent a couple hours figuring out dimensions, a couple hours trying to find the perfect material to cover them with, and a couple hours sewing these little buggers. It was so cute/annoying watching Todd sew the ends together with a needle and thread.. he's such a perfectionist! We are pretty freakin' pleased with ourselves. We even had a mini sleepover in the car when they were finally finished. Seven inch custom mattress with a memory foam topper. You can feel free to stop feeling bad for us sleeping in our car. I'd take this baby over a Marriot bed any day.

Roadtrip Countdown

We cannot wait to leave on our MONTH long road trip across the country! Every second that Todd isn't studying for finals and I am not working we are busily preparing for our big adventure. We are going to live out of our car for a month like hippies. Showering at truck stops, eating at amazing places, and just exploring the US of A. Rad, right? We have made a custom matress, a custom curtain system, and a sweet clothes hanging device for the big trip. I have spent hundreds of hours planning outfits for everyday, writing out itineraries and mapping out cool places to see. It is very likely that we end up going crazy from driving too long, get blood clots in our legs and can't stand eachother after a month of driving, but I CAN'T WAIT!