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I woke up at 9:30am to find Katie and her boyfriend John were still sleeping, so I called up Patch to see if she'd be interested in having breakfast with me. I wish it had been a Saturday so we could hit up the Harrisonburg Farmer's Market. There is a Menonite woman there that makes the most delicious doughnuts for a dollar!! Best dollar ever spent (other than at Jack Brown's for that deep fried oreo). Instead, we went to Shank's bakery in downtown. All of their baked goods are made fresh from scratch every morning and throughout the rest of the day. Raspberry coffee cake, chocolate chip coffee cake and apple crumb cake are all sold by the slice ($1.25); a variety of cookies ranging from molasses to chocolate chip to monster are $0.50 eA ... read more

This is my first blog. This is also my first road trip. This month is actually holding a lot of firsts for me. Until recently I was very unhappily working at a corporate retail giant in the DC/metro area, until I finally decided I had had enough; enough of my job, enough of the east coast, enough of a stagnant life that I no longer wanted. So, I quit my job, packed up my things, dropped about half of them off at my parents' house, and set off on the road for Seattle, where I have decided to move. Crazy? Maybe. Exciting? Totally. I decided that instead of the taking the direct northern route that google maps gave me that would take about two and a half days, I would swing down into the deep south ... read more