4654...miles Best laid plans

So I hit slight snag on my time line that forced me to eliminate some stops.
I am sitting in the Best Western in Newport News Virginia and after realizing how long it took me to get over here from the West Coast I have had reevaluate my schedule so that I can make it back, my main focus is Hershey Pennsylvania that is the all for her.

I did not get to New Orleans or DC this go around maybe another day.

Outside of Alabama a truck threw a rock into my windshield that left a really nasty chip so I am trying to get safe lite to fill it before I travel on tomorrow

What have I learned so far.

I needed more time for this,

I am insignificant in the scheme of things, my journey is my own cause and unless people know me they just pass me without even a look, I drove the speed limit the whole way and did not tempt the idiots that passed me, I had no reason to be on anyone's schedule but my own.

Sacramento California has an incredible variety of tree's, every breed of tree imaginable is dispayed all over the city some I have never seen before.

If you have never traveled the coastal route of California I recommend it, when your driving along the cliff side with the ocean on your right it's amazing.

Chandler Arizona is like a huge shopping mall for miles, it seems to be prosperous but at what price to the ones I saw on the street.

When you drive through Texas and stop at an inspection point don't have anything black sitting on the passenger seat.

Some Texas drivers are bad in any state.

I love storms but not the humidity, I saw amazing lightning storms that lit the sky for miles all around me.

If you want to visit New Orleans go with someone who knows there way around and don't trust a GPS that tells you to turn into on coming traffic, just trying to find a place to park that was safe took more time than I had and this was a weekday, so I decided it was better to push on.

If you want to learn about the history of music come to the East Coast if I had time to stop I would have visited all the museums and even caught a concert.

Advertisements on the radio are the same everywhere except for the dialects used.

Everything is green when you get out of Texas all the way to the East Coast.

I said I have respect for truck drivers but I ran into some that would just as soon swatted me off the road than share it, a few times it was scary.

I am not the greatest picture taker when I'm on a deadline.

On the East Coast it's called Hardee's and on the West Coast it's called Carl's Jr, but Hardee's has the best chicken sandwich ever.

If you want to learn about a culture don't be a tourist, spend time in it because you can't see it from the freeways.

I saw a great disconnect in people because of technology and yet the ugly truth is that it builds bridges across culture lines that were never there before, it's all a dance.

I did this journey for us so I discovered an interesting thing, when Margie and I traveled it was very much the same way I am traveling, I don't see what everyone else see's and I tend to arrive late or leave before the exciting stuff happens, sounds like a normal vacation honey...