The long road.
We bid farewell to New Orleans, yet again, last Friday, which sucked as usual. Generally speaking, things get easier the more times you do them, like say, typing, or re-shingling a roof. The experience of doing something over and over makes it less strenuous. This is not true, however, for leaving or moving, which I have had the fortune of doing practically annually for the last six years. True, I am damn-good at packing, and stacking boxes in an efficient manner, but the act of leaving good friends and family behind, has not been getting any easier. In fact, it is getting harder.
I’m not going to to lie, it’s great to meet new friends, but I’m realizing more and more that the friends we made in college are really a great group of people. That sets the bar pretty high for all subsequent friend encounters. Some people can hold up to the precedent, others, not so much. Knowing that we’ve found some great people makes leaving hard, every single time. We leave New Orleans knowing that the next time we move back, its will be for good.
Ok, so enough crying in my beer, lets talk about his drive. It was pretty ambitious, and though google quotes us as 1,835 miles, the odometer on our Honda read 1,943 after the three day journey. We left New Orleans around 1 pm on Friday, and arrived on Sunday at about 10:30 pm. According to google, here is the breakdown:
- New Orleans, LA to Austin, TX– 533 mi – about 8 hours 36 mins
- Austin, TX to Deming, NM– 677 mi – about 9 hours 54 mins
- Deming, NM to San Diego, CA– 624 mi – about 8 hours 54 mins
It was a pretty ambitious drive, and we did it with a small trailer attached to the Accord, ta boot. We listened to books on tape (or ipod, rather) most of the drive, which made it go pretty smoothly. As far as drives go, it was not bad at all.
There was also no tire blow-outs, or car flipping, so that was a plus as well.
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And we’re beautiful, too. That makes it difficult for anyone else to compare.
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[...] If I haven’t told you my new mailing address, it’s because I don’t have one yet. We left New Orleans on Friday, February 27 and drove like crazy to make it to San Diego late on Sunday, March 1. It wasn’t the most relaxing road trip we’ve ever taken, but it also didn’t result in a flipped car and a trip to the ER, so I count it as a victory (read more about the trip in Brian’s blog). [...]