Long Drives

So we made it to the Heart of Texas, Austin, last night. Corrie drove from about forty miles before Texarkana through to about forty miles to Dallas, which was the reprieve I needed to finish what I started.

We left Brooklyn Sunday morning after finishing the packing of the little things and digging the truck out of the snow. The City got about 18 inches of snow the previous night, and it had blanketed everything. It wasn't cold enough yet for it to have hardened into white concrete.

I drove Sunday from Brooklyn to Roanoke, Virginia. There was snow piled up on the side of the highway the entire way, as well as covering every tree and mountain within eyesight of the road. It was a pretty straight shot, down to Atlantic from Malcolm X, over to Flatbush, which becomes the Manhattan Bridge, across Manhattan on Canal Street--the Manhattan Bridge dumpoff--through the Holland Tunnel and onto I-78. We took that to I-81, which we stayed on all the way to Knoxville.

That was the second day; 81 from Roanoke passed Knoxville, when the 81 turns into I-40, then through Nashville, and eventually staying in Dickson, Tennessee. Two southern metropolises in one day...damn, Tennessee is a long state. Somewhere before Knoxville the snow along the highway stopped abruptly...poof--and there wasn't any snow anywhere. Bizarre.

The third day we zoomed passed Memphis, Little Rock, switched drivers before Texarkana, switched back before skirting Dallas, through Waco, and eventually here, Austin, around 12:30 last night. We'd planned to stop in Texarkana for the night, but felt like we could make the drive, and wanted to save the money.

I have some pretty cool pictures, but I'll post them later.

Happy Belated Winter Solstice!