Today's trip: 422.8 miles
Today's time: 8:30 hours
Total trip: 2021.5 miles

I had originally planned to write an entry for each leg of the trip as well as for each city, but I'm starting to think that that would make for really boring reading ("It was really flat. Then there were some trees. Then there was a river. Then it was flat again. Then a few more trees..."). So eventually I'll sum up what the drive has been like so far, although I don't have time right now. Why? Well, I was doing a load of laundry at Matt's house last night, and as I'm transferring the last of my clothes to the dryer, what do you think I discover at the bottom of the washing machine?

My CAMERA.

It actually would have been kind of funny, if it weren't so - #*@%. There was this small piece of electronic equipment, gazing back up at me with seemingly as much bemusement as I was feeling. "What am I doing here?" it seemed to say. "There is no possible reason for me to be in this particular place."

I begin to see a pattern here. See, Andrew's tendency with expensive electronic items is simply to lose them. I, on the other hand, apparently need to subject mine to agonizing deaths (smashed cell phone, several drowned watches, now a drowned camera). The upside, I guess, is that there isn't the same persistent, torturous hope that you get when you lose something, where you're constantly remembering one more spot that you haven't checked yet. When you're staring at a camera in a washing machine - you know.

Miraculously, my memory card and its wealth of un-backed-up photos survived the watery abuse, so I'm off to Best Buy to get the card a new house. While I don't generally like making practically spur-of-the-moment electronics purchases, this is one time in my life when I really cannot be without a camera. Oh well.



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