Road Construction

I’m returning home soon but there are a few important things I have learned along this trip: sweaty people smell bad, one can’t expect to eat a big bag of Cheetos and not feel incredibly sick sometime after, McDonald’s number ten combo (ten chicken nuggets, a medium fry, and a medium diet coke) is the best thing ever after a day at a theme park, and most importantly, true friends will be there when you need them the most (that includes missing your call at 1:30am then calling you back at 2:00am just to make sure you’re okay). Leaving your home can also really teach you some things about yourself. I learned that I’m very independent and that I definitely prefer driving compact cars as opposed to vans or SUVs.

Other important facts: Loud dance music is always better than depressing rock (unless you’re in a really bad mood). Or it’s 12:30am and you’re trying to sleep but the people in the hotel room next to you are playing some Michael Jackson version of Rock Band. What the heck is up with that?! I didn’t even know that existed. Erg… Road trips are always better with a movie- something mentally stimulating so that the time passes quickly. But not something so intense that you have to look away because then you end up missing half the movie (one of my pet peeves). I’ve enjoyed watching The Manchurian Candidate, 28 Days Later, and 28 Weeks Later. Oh! Something else- one really only needs to hear Taylor Swift once a day if that much. But seriously my dad and I were flipping through radio stations and two stations were playing the same Swift song within one minute of each other. Excessive? I believe that is a yes.

I’m a roller coaster person but I can only ride a coaster so many times before starting to imagine how the coaster could have been more thrilling. I begin to think of loops that should have been added or drops that could have been steeper. Why? Because coasters can only be so exciting for so long. When you can fall asleep on a ride- you’ve ridden it too many times. I was lying in the hotel bed last night listening to my dad snore and then end of The Lost Boys thinking to myself, “What if they made coasters on the same tracks as the bullet trains- the ones that run magnetically.” I mean I’m sure they would have to slow them down but just imagine how fast you could go. Then again I’m no engineer. I have no idea if it would work or not. Just some different things I’ve thought about over my trip.