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Today we headed out from Nashville to Chapel Hill to visit Lisa, Jason and Jack. The drive ended up taking much longer than the navigation system, i-phone, and various websites had predicted, but it was definitely a pretty one. Along the way we saw a beautiful sunset over the smokey mountains and felt fortunate to not have seen a single deer! The moon has been quite a sight the past few days, but unfortunately doesn't photograph. We lost an hour during today's trip and feel much closer to our final destination now that we are officially in the east coast time zone! The car is beginning to feel pretty cramped and we a little lazy due to the lack of movement throughout our days. We are looking forward to getting out of the car and actually ... read more

After two days in Austin, we headed to Arkansas. The big event of the day, before arriving in Arkansas, was stopping at Roy T.'s Bakery. It was located off the highway in a quant little cottage full of many Texans. We met Roy T. himself, and were entertained by the Texans' excitement surrounding the availability of fresh pigs in a blanket. In addition to the Texans' excitement, Krystal was ecstatic that they carried, and emphasized the superiority of Mexican Coke, because she, too, has a strong love and admiration for the taste of Mexican Coke. After customer upon customer came in and ordered unique items, we began feeling slightly lame that we were eating simple, plain sandwiches, but that was all resolved upon further chatting with Roy T. Like a true Texan, he made us feel ... read more

Today we got breakfast in Albuquerque, and headed out on the road. Krystal drove 12 hours and we made it to beautiful Kerrville, Texas. During our drive we named New Mexico the land of shrubs, not the land of enchantment, and Texas the land of deer. Krystal has never had to drive and look out for deer. After a terrifying experience, and an after dark deer sighting count of over 20, we made friends with a truck driver whose high beams were very helpful in looking out for deer, and followed him for the last 200 miles. We arrived in Kerrville, which is a little under an hour outside of San Antonio, at 2:30 in the morning. You know you're in a trucker town when there are special rates for just being there to sleep...... read more

We left Sunday at 10am, and headed out on the 8 East. Our first stop was at the Golden Acorn Casino where we learned this trip was going to be a good one. We stopped at the Casino mostly for restroom use, but decided we might as well gamble and see what happens. We each put two dollars in quarter slots, and on the very last pull of the lever we decided to both put our hands on the lever, and BOOM, we won $12. Our dreams are coming true. We tripled our money--in one word, success. After that excitement, we drove about 7/8 hours, trying to switch off every 100 miles and stopping at interesting gas stations and such along the way. They have a gas station chain called Love's here in Arizona. It's kind ... read more