chicken road adventures...

As if driving for 13 hours wasn't enough of an adventure between the traffic and all... We had quite the expierence on Chicken Road. Now this road reminded me of the beginning of a horror movie. It was about one in the morning and the three of us are driving along a dark twisty long road. There was no one else on the road and the road was surrounded by cotton fields and the occasional trailer on the side of the road. 

Each time we drove by a trailer I would just blurt out something along the lines of "a serial killer def lives there, with all the blackness around there's ample opportunity for these twisted people." We continued driving along and were joking about how if a "cop" tried to pull us over we wouldn't stop because it would totally be a fake cop aka a serial killer trying to get us. Were driving along this sketchy road, past random gas stations that all seemed to be closed, the sketchy trailers with the blue glow of a television on somewhere inside and I just keep waiting for someone to pop out of the cotton fields and attack us. 

Out of no where we see blue lights whirling behind us. Erinn looks at me with a puzzled face and we just question if were actually being pulled over or not. We decided to pull onto the die of the road. Wrinn rolls down her window, gets her license out and asks me to pull the registration out of the glove box. As I'm pulling it out I hear a rapping on my window, right next to the cotton fields. I jumped maybe screamed a little and saw the cop outside of my window. 

Blah blah blah the cop is asking us where were going and what not. The next thing out of his mouth was him asking if we were in a sorority, like really man, this is part of your questioning for us? He proceeds to take her license go back to his car and he comes back to her car smiling. He just asked us if we had any explosives guns or alcohol in the car. I whip up my water bottle just saying it's water and Emma finally wakes from her slumber and tells the cop shes got laced chocolate milk with her. The cop just laughed and takes the milk sayig it was unacceptable that it was warm. He starts to tell her if she was being issues a ticket or not when I decide to stick my hand in his face and tell him that being pulled over on this road is my worst nightmare. 

He just laughed at me, handed Erinn back her license as I proceeded to tell him how I am terrified of this road because it reminds me of a murder movie/book. As he still was laughing he ends our encounter by saying something along the lines of: if your looking to get freaky just take a right and head under the bridge to find some drugs and goodies. 

Having that be one of the oddest expierence a of my life we continued along chicken road towards civilization... 

Hope everyone is looking forward to some more sassy stories from this week. 

until next time... xoxo J

traffic and tunes...

Hi everyone sorry for the lack of posts the past few weeks. I guess ignoring my work in my last semester wasn't the best idea, I was less than thrilled when it finally caught up to me. Don't worry, my work is all done and handed in and I'm ready to get back to blogging on a regular basis. I've got a ton of posts sitting in my draft box along with some exciting things coming up!

As I'm writing this on my iPad I'm on a what should be nine hour drive from  Gettysburg to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. My two friends and I planned on leaving to start our road trip around ten in the morning... Shocking that didn't happen. By the time we were all awake, last papers handed in, cleaned our apartment, packed up got food and gas and hit the road it was about one in the afternoon... I guess we could've been worse with our time management and not left today at all...

I was sitting shotgun with my iPod on shuffle, Erinn at the wheel, and Emma sprawled out across the backseat we were on the road. Both Erinn and Emma we're wearing comfortable workout clothes and couldn't resist making fun of how I decided to wear one of my plain black maxi dress, Jack Rogers and had my hair up in what I refer to as a B!?@$ bun. Jokes in them maxi dresses are by far the easiest most comfortable thing to wear on a plane or long road trip. I can't even get over how comfortable and easy the are to travel in. Not only are they simple and classic but you don't really even have to sit like a lady while wearing them. I mean really, I can't sit still on these long trips, thank god the dress is long enough so I can sit cross legged or put my feet up on the dashboard, pants would be too constricting to do that in and I should definitely shave my legs before I throw shorts on. 

That original nine hour ride slowly started to slip into the double digits, now it's five in the afternoon and we're looking at an eleven hour total drive (and it could keep going up). It's not totally our fault, yes we did stop at a mall to go to grab a car charger from the Apple store, but I swear we were ladies on a mission and didn't even linger outside of other stores looking in drooling over the clothes. We had blinders on to quickly blow in and out of the apple store to get back on the road. 

So with that self inflicted fifteen minute delay, where did the rest of the extra time come from? We'll let me tell you we were on the highway again for less than twenty minutes before we hit stop and go traffic. At first we assumed it was the regular DC traffic and merging, but it continued on after we passed the Capitol. We were hopeful when we passed some fender benders but the traffic continued. I don't think we've gone over fifteen MPH for the past three hours...

As painful as it is being in this lovely traffic. The three of us have clearly found ways to entertain ourselves. Emma in the back continues to switch between sitting behind Erinn and I to hang out the window in hopes of making some car friends. Once she gets bored with that she'll lay down for an attempted siesta but quickly hops back up to try and make more car friends. We've sent some snapchats that we find hysterical, but what else is new I always think I'm funnier than I am. We've sung along to the iPod on shuffle which has been beyond entertaining. 

We've sung along to everything like Beyoncé, Paramore, Miley Cyrus (and Hannah Montana), Hillary Duff, Black Eyed Peas, Fergie, Pit Bull, Jessica Simpson and too many more to mention inclusion some ones I'm too embarrassed to mention. 

I'm glad I'm back to blogging on a daily basis. Check back later to see our lovely road trip progress and what else were singing along to in the car. 

until next time... xoxo 

By the way... We finally arrived at 2 am, and let me tell you that 13 hour ride was quite eventful. Look out for a post on how we got pulled over by the cops on chicken road, which looks like a road a horror story would take place on...