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I’m Baaaack!

December 21, 2007 on 8:51 am | In Xbox world |

Ok boys and girls, I know you’ve missed me a great deal. You’ve missed my caring, loving attitude and my sugar-coated posting style. ANYWAY, these guys had me locked in a basement for a couple of months to try and “fix” me but gave up after I ate the flowers off the wallpaper, tore up the pink comforter and threw Chris’ copy of  Barbie Horse Adventures through the tiny window. I do, however, still have a thing for my little pink controller so maybe it did crack me just a tiny bit.

My mom and I drove six gruelling days to get over here to Washington from New Jersey just so that I could again be the ray of sunshine on my team. Let me tell you, it was quite an experience. I slept with my Xbox so that nobody would steal it and my controller was always in my purse by my side - True story.

I drove through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho - I may have hit Nebraska - It’s all a blur. Here are a couple of pieces of advice:

• Learn BEFOREHAND how to engage the 4WD on your car
  
• Don’t eat fast food for weeks before leaving
  
• Take 3 weeks to make the trip and don’t do it during winter.
  
• When your BLT comes with no mayo, don’t yell at the person in the car with you - it’s not their fault even though they asked for it that way…
  
• Mount Rushmore is too far away from Rapid City to fit into a speed trip - Plan accordingly
  
• DO stop at the Corn Palace - Its “Ear-chitecture” is “a-Maize-ing”. It’s just not right. When your local HS teams are called the “Kernels” you have to stop and wonder…
  
• Take air freshener. One of the hotel rooms I stayed in smelled like a rhino’s backside.
  
• Don’t follow a truck on a gravel road. You will lose your windshield (or pieces of it)
  
• Trying to drive through Montana in the middle of winter, at night, through 80mph gusts and on icy roads is like letting your 106 year old granny get on the Death Plunge ride at the local amusement park. There’s a high probability that someone might die. Just don’t do it.

A nice little photo set of this momentous time will follow shortly. It’s good to be back!