Thoughts from the Road

Being on the road for almost 6 weeks has generally been pretty great. I was worried initially that we would get tired of travelling and would just want to rush home, but, if anything, the time has kind of flown by and we're sad that the trip is start to wind down. I do have one complaint about all the travelling, however.

You know how at home when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, you can sort of navigate your way to the bathroom in the dark without waking yourself up too much? Well, when you've been in a different room every night for the past 40 nights, that "bathroom radar" goes kind of haywire. Pretty much every night for the past 40 nights, I've woken up to go to the bathroom, then taken about 10 steps toward where I think the bathroom should be, then suddenly realized there's a wall where I thought the bathroom was going to be. Then I stand there dumbfounded for about 30 seconds as I try to reconstruct which hotel room I'm in, and correspondingly where the bathroom should be. Only then do I finally start walking in the correct direction, at which point I usually stub my toe on my luggage.

I hate that.

My other thought of the day: Arkansas is boring. Today we drove across Arkansas after spending the morning at the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. The Civil Rights Museum was interesting, but we came across absolutely nothing of interest in Arkansas. And we gave it a good college try too, driving around Little Rock aimlessly for a good 45 minutes. I'm afraid Arkansas is the current winner of the Most Boring State of the Trip contest. Or, uh, loser, I guess.

Now, excuse me as I try to memorize the path to our new hotel bathroom.