Pretty good for only one day's driving! Of course out west it'd take a lot longer day's drive to get through five states...but to be fair I only went through the upper tip of West Virginia which turned out to be about 15 miles wide...and in the spirit of full disclosure I'm only a few miles into Illinois. ;)

I've parked between a couple running semi's and am very glad to be stopped after a little over 12 hours of rolling movement. The day didn't start off too well when I had to pay 14 smackers to drive the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Thankfully I could steer a different course for the majority of the way and didn't have to pay through Ohio and Indiana, but I'm wondering just what exactly is wrong with those states' administrators that they have to bilk their citizens. Free roads man! Viva la West Coast! :p

Ok, it's obvious I've been driving too long, I'm getting a little loopy. I'll tell one more story and then go to bed. After I got off the turnpike I was getting onto another freeway and got confused because the direction I thought I should be going was labeled westbound, but I was looking for the eastbound onramp. After a few moments of confusion, I realized I've been looking for the eastbound lane for almost a year and in actuality, yes, I did want the westbound lane.

Once is a slightly humorous anecdote, but unfortunately it happened again a few hundred miles down the road when I saw a sign out of the corner of my eye listing a detour for the eastbound lane of the freeway I was on. I quickly veered off before realizing DOH! I'd done it again. Hopefully I'll remember which direction I'm going a little better tomorrow!