2,724 miles
I know, I know. I said I was going to post, but that didn’t end up happening. Oops… heh.
Things have been going pretty well considering I’m not where I thought I was going to be. I am still working for the law office, which is boring but necessary. I was able to purchase a car, which is phenomenal. It’s a 1998 Saab 900s convertible in green with a black cloth top. I truly love it. It runs great and I had to learn how to drive stick. I’m doing quite well with it and I was able to go home a few times driving my car.
I am also applying to go to school at Binghamton in the fall. I really miss school, even though the University of Rochester definitely wasn’t the place for me. I think a state school, where I can do my thing and go on to teach, as teaching is all I really want to do.
Now, I come to the title of the journal entry.
Rochester, NY to San Francisco, CA
This is a map of what kind of drive it would be from my front door here in Rochester to the city limits of San Francisco. It is 2, 724 miles. One day and 18 hours. Nine states between California and New York. Further west than I have ever gone before.
I want to do it.
I want to take two weeks and go there and stop a few places along the way. Here are some of them:
- Yellowstone National Park
- Black Hills
- Mount Rushmore
- Grand Canyon
- Arizona/desert
I also want to see a few cities, aside from San Francisco:
- Chicago
- Salt Lake City
- Denver
- Portland
- Reno
- Phoenix
What I think I want to do with my journal for the next few months is to try and figure this out. To see whether or not I would have enough money to do something like this, how long it would take to get to each place and just the general logistics of a trip of this scale.
All I know is that I want to think it out and see what I can do. I know that I want to go by myself, which is all I know for sure. This is a risk that I am willing to take because there isn’t any one else I want to go to that could go. It would have to be someone who would have the perfect combination of the time, the money and the ability to not annoy the piss out of me/not get annoyed with me.
What I need to figure out:
- how much it will cost
- route
- what I want to see
- showering/places to stay
- wireless internet to update
I have to know whether or not my car can take a well-over 7,000 mile journey. I have to know whether or not I could take a trip that long. So this is now going to become my think-tank.
