So the road trip that everything was leading up to has finally come and gone. The deserts of Arizona and New Mexico were pretty but monotonous. Oklahoma City was surprisingly large, and we got to cross the Mississippi River right into Tennessee, which was kind of fun. Everything got super green and the trees grew larger each day until we were in the Great Smokey Mountains on the winding mountain roads getting to see the gorgeous color that has just started in the area. It's definitely not fully autumn yet on the East Coast, possibly due to the fact that it's been cloudy since the 3rd and I've heard speculation that the lack of sunlight tricks the trees into staying green. Whatever it is, it was pretty neat to see green trees just barely starting to tinge red, almost as if the tips were painted with a paintbrush.
In all, it went very well and I'm glad to be home. Here's a Newsweek-like roll-up of the numbers from the trip:
2620.2 miles driven
70 average speed limit
~42 hours of driving
~36 average miles per gallon
10 gas station stops
3 podcasts completed
2 traffic jams
2 detours (Santa Fe and Asheville)
1 instance of yelling
1 near accident
0 items broken
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