Settled Down at Best Western

After... 16-ish hours of driving we've settled for the night in Knoxville, TN. If you all could see it right now (and maybe i'll post pictures later) it should remind you of grandma's old house (anyones grandma) right down to the Tv that you can only hook cable into. You know, just one little cable hookup in the back and that's it. And currently Tru Blood is on. This is on for two reasons. 1) Knocked up is on in like 20 minutes, and 2) Val said to throw the TV on as to not have to listen to Ed pooping in the bathroom. And he pooped his heart out, in all the years i've known the man, he's never once taken a poop that quickly. Shit must have just dropped like a baby on prom night. Wow is that offensive. Christ. Speaking of whom, not far from here we saw a bilboard that said something like "Mommy, i know you were under alot of pressure" then there was a baby hand and then aknowledged the person saying this was "THE UNBORN". The three of us were all pretty much in shock. I think we in the Bible belt now. I wonder if we'll get our balls killed off for not going to church tomorrow morning. it's a good question. But like i said, we've got the set up perfect so at any moment this trip can very well turn into a horror movie. Probably not a good one either. Be short too, cause there's only three of us, unless we somehow find more characters to be involved halfway through just to keep the death toll up.

So since the "Incident" with the policeman. We've driven the same road all the way here. The AAA book said i t was 523.7 miles on that road, however route I81 turned into I40 and i think we spent another 30 miles or so on that road. So altogether 550 milesish on that road. From home we're, and i think this is accurate, 955.1 miles from home. Pretty impressive for day one. I believe our plan for tomorrow night is Oklahoma City. We're covering a lot of ground really quick. And we've listened to The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" about a hundred times. But it's awesome so whatever. Also, i'm becoming a huge fan of Everclear's cover album (the title is something about Vegas i don't remember exactly, and i'm a lazy prick and don't feel like going to look.) They do 'The Boys are Back in Town' 'American Girl' 'This Land is Your Land' and the Speed Racer Theme Song. It's been a long day of sitting in a car, but it wasn't horrible. Sleepy, and I'm pretty sure ed could sleep for a day straight, but at the same time, i think we're all really happy to be out of the car for the night, the punishment of which will be that we'll all stay up far longer than we ought to.

And then hate ourselves tomorrow. Mostly Ed though because he's doing all the driving while me and val get to do whatever... like Nap.
-Ryan