Truckin': Day 1

Today at 6:30 A.M. me family and I left our home and headed for Illinois.
Our bags were packed and we were ready for our vacation farther west.

My dad made write the time; number of miles on the car; toll, gas, and meal prices; and restaraunts.

I can't really talk about everything in detail (early morning tomorrow).
It was quiet in our car for most of the morning. My mom and my brother slept. I mostly listened to my iPod and stared out the window at the highway wizzing by (I listened to about 6 episodes of Smartmouths).

While looking out of the window, I noticed several peculiar things. I first observed road signs with whimsically amusing names of towns. I then noticed a boat at a gas station that had a very large innertube that had the name "Big Bertha" on which I photographed with my phone. The next was extremely disturbing and made me feel uncomfortable. Obviously there were many large tanker trucks on the turnpikes we were driving on. However, one truck in particular had crude and offensive prases painted on the back by its driver (I assume by the driver). The phrases include things like "flash me," and "show me your hooters." My mom shook her head and the pervert truck driver made a face that I don't really know how to describe. But it was very disturbing.

At one of the rest stops we went to, there were these sections called "Travel Emporium.:" These sections were hardly emporiums. They had things like brochures, sunglasses, lighters, cooling cups, and...lamps with tigers and bears' faces on them? I thought that was completely useless to travellers. How can u imagine a person driving down the parkway, forgetting their tiger lamp and rushing to exit and go to the Travel Emporium! You can see how rediculous it is.

Well, School of Rock just came on TV so, you know, I have to go watch it.
I can't promise a post everyday on our trip but I hope to update a lot!
See ya later, you cupcakes!