So getting here from Butler was pretty much the most epic life changing learning experience ever, I can't even explain in words how our 16 HOUR ROAD TRIP home was. My friend and I left Butler at 4a.m to beat the snow storm that was going to hit Indy but when we walked outside it had already started. About to leave, we saw a boy coming from his car who just came from the airport, which in quincidence knew where he came from and who he dropped off because he is a friend of a friend of ours, said we should wait till morning because its pretty bad out there. Well the determined and brave people we are (not really we just wanted to go), decided to suck it and leave. We drive through Indiana really well considering the EXTREME SNOW and ICE conditions out there and make it to Ohio!! We do a little victory dance at a rest stop and then keep driving through this very long state, in pitch black darkness.
Were driving through Ohio and wait for daylight to come and we are soo close in reaching Columbus ...WE GET A FLAT TIRE!, right in front of the Columbus 11mile sign. We call AAA to put her spare tire on and drive to the closests tire store. My friend being super upset because she just got a flat tire two days ago and MADE sure all the other tires were good to go for this trip, we wait for 2 hours to get it fixed. While waiting, the positive side is that there was a Target next to the tire store and we went shopping to get our needed extra socks, coffee, and did our Christmas shopping there! We finally get back on the road putting us 3 hours behind. Still driving through Ohio we pass by parts of Cleveland which was really pretty! Looking at the cute houses and neighborhoods from a higher ground while listening to old school Christmas songs, we thought we were in a Christmas story book. Which is a lot better in the fact that, when we were driving thru Indiana's snow storm listening to old school 90's music we thought we were in a movie, kind of like Dumb and Dumber.
We go through Pennsylvania pretty well and then West Virginia which had beautiful mountains. We get a text from our friend and my mom to be careful because the roads are really bad in Maryland and back home. After going through just getting out of Butler, we hoped it wasn't as bad and we thought we were prepared for anything after that. Driving through West Virginia for about an hour or two, there were times when we didn't even know where we were because there was no signs, any life forms, or anyTHING around but somehow we finally got to Maryland!
Seeing that Welcome to Maryland sign was the biggest relief but little did we know it was going to seem the longest ride ever from there on. We drove along the mountains and curvy roads while it started to sleet, snow, i dont even know, from the sky. Although it was really pretty, everytime I took a picture of something pretty I kept on missing and then my PHONE DIED. Then 10 minutes later ...my FRIENDS PHONE DIED!! So now we have no connection with the outside world and hoping that nothing wrong happens because if so, we were screwed. Getting deeper into Maryland, the roads are getting scarier along with the stuff coming from the sky, hitting our really fogged up window. We saw a car in every ditch we saw and a GIGANTIC truck on the other side of the road on its SIDE, facing the other side of traffic, with its front side smashed and going down the mountain, and rangers on the street looking for missing pieces of the truck. We were scared but the brave selves we were, kept driving cautiously and just said, wow you know when your on the east coast when you see all this and people are bitches on the road. It's getting dark and I guess this part of Maryland thought they shouldn't put any highway lights around as we drove in pitch black darkness ...again. During this hour of the trip, the roads were getting really icy and there was fog coming from the ground -kind of like this year in the beginning of Act 2 of our Nutcracker when the angels come out and then when they would slip on stage, every performance. Because we really did not know where we were in the country, it actually looked like we were in outer space. But lo and behold, we see from our front window a huge mountain of LIGHTS -CIVILIZATION! It was a HUGE city of Maryland but it wasn't Baltimore, so we really did not know what it was -maybe it was just an illusion because after that it went back to the outer space thing again.
We finally get onto I-270 and 495, highways that we actually know and see signs for WASHINGTON/ NORTHERN VIRGINIA! We knew we were almost home by the ridiculous construction and the mean drivers that cut you off then drive slower once they are in front of your or tailgate you with their high beams on. THIS IS GREAT! We saw the landmark Tysons Corner and the huge buildings and its distractions it brings to the highway and we SCREAMED alleluia!! We got off on our exit and the rest is history...
Not once did we get lost due to my awesome directional skills or died! It was a pretty great story/ experience to top off my last three weeks of the semester and its ridiculousness of what we had to go through. Now it's time to be fun again and enjoy this holiday!
Not once did we get lost due to my awesome directional skills or died! It was a pretty great story/ experience to top off my last three weeks of the semester and its ridiculousness of what we had to go through. Now it's time to be fun again and enjoy this holiday!
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