Welcome to the Terrordome

Hey Friends, Welcome to Nick and Chris' Road Trip 2009 blog!
Were going to try to blog as much as possible throughout the trip to keep you all updated on our magical mystery tour. This is Nick at the moment, although Chris will be posting as well (Well make sure to let you guys know which one of us is posting for all of you who don't want to read Chris' excruciatingly awful posts. I know I won't be reading them).

Thanks to this sweet interactive map that I have adapted from Ron Jacobson's riveting South America blog (which I will be trying to live up to the whole trip), we will be able to keep you guys posted on exactly where we are and where we have been on the trip. Just to give a little preview, we will start out driving across the northern United States, then move up into Canada for a brief sojourn in Calgary and Vancouver, before heading back down the West Coast. Once we get down to San Diego, were going to head east across the South, then down into Florida, before coming back up the East Coast and finishing in New York on Thanksgiving (November 26 for all you Canadian followers).

Im ready to get this thing started already. After being unemployed all summer, I dont know if Ive ever been so restless in my whole life. Im literally chomping at the bit to get going and hit the open road.

Thats about it for now. At some point I will get into what this trip is really about for me and what im looking to see, but that can wait until were on the road and can better express these thoughts. Now ill just say that undertaking this journey has been a goal of mine for a long time, and what I really want to do is just see my country. What I am looking to find or what Id like to accomplish is still unknown to me. All I know is that I just want to hit the road and go where I go, see what I see. I will let the journey itself articulate my motives. Hopefully you'll stay on for the ride!

Keep it Real.

Nick