boo to the 5

So really the 24 Days of Awesome turned out to be more like the 22 Days of Awesome and 2 long-ass days of driving that were only partly awesome. what gives?  right around 2200 miles total from Spokane to LA (in a rather round-a-bout sort of fasion) and all kinds of good people along the way.

Today i landed in Placentia, CA at Andy's (his name is not a funny color because he never blogs anymore....guilt.) folk's house. I'm so grateful that they agreed to take me in while I register at school and find a place of my own.

I logged 525 miles today. I added a few miles so that I could pay  dollars to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge. I glad I did because then I crossed over to I5 and had the, straightest most uneventful drive of my life. The first few vineyards and orchards were pretty. then all I saw for 400 miles were vineyards, orchards, and dead grass. Luckily, i was prepared. Today's music selections included:

• this dope-ass mix that Katie made me for the drive
• Jeremy Enigk "World Waits"
• Frightened Rabbit "The Midnight Organ Fight"
• Damien Jurado "Caught In the Trees"
• Bruce Springsteen "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
• Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
• Patty Griffin "1000 Kisses"
• Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "The Dust of Retreat"
• Sarah Masen "The Dreamlife of Angels"
• Bob Dylan "Blood on the Tracks"
• Ben Lundquist "Afterthoughts"

maybe today was awesome afterall...minus the swass.