it's in the blood

[whitereflection]

visited 27 states (54%)
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And damned near all of it by car, because my Dad was and is severely phobic about flying and was a fiend for roadtrips. Roadtrips for vacations, roadrips for taking Mom to different hospitals when her health was bad, roadtrips for moving (and moving back again). I've flown only a little in comparison. To be honest, I miss roadtripping. I miss interstates and highways and the scenery of America along the way. I miss motels and American food chain restaurants and tourist trap gift shops. But I'm a passenger, not a driver, and the husband isn't any better (also, he hates traveling :/ ).

Dad doesn't drive so much anymore--back and neck problems, but when he and my stepmother do take trips, that's how they do it. But he used to be such a freaking maniac for driving. He could go and go and go, like a vehicular marathoner. Sometimes we didn't even do motels--we'd just sleep as he drove until we got there (Omaha to Seattle or vice versa's 36 hours, I'm just sayin'.) All he needed was Coca Cola, someone to read the maps, and the radio. (Though I do remember one trip he needed a brief recharge, and we slept in the car at a rest stop.) In comparison, the bits of driving I've done? Hour trips to Lincoln, or the hour and a half trips to Seward or Audubon, a few hours to Kansas City. I think the longest I've ever driven was about 6 hours to Witchita, and that was too long for me. At least it was back when I tried it.

Sometimes I want to roadtrip again so much it's like an itch under my skin. What was the old slogan in that one car commercial, "Drivers wanted"? Yeah.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_amalthea/]

I just counted mine and I was surprised that I have actually visited 15 states, even though I only lived in the states for a year.

Me and my friend who also went to USA for her exchange year have been dreaming about going back some day and taking a roadtrip from coast to coast. And I think I could actually manage to drive long hours because I'm so used to driving long distances all the time.

I wonder if Hawaii and Alaska are the only states the Winchester haven't visited? :D Or have they been to Alaska? I have no idea...

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Ohwow, a coast to coast trip like that would be so *amazing*!! I hope you do get to do that, and when you do, I hope you blog about it so some of us could live vicariously :) ♥

You know, I don't think they've been to either. Hawaii has the whole having to be flown to issue, and Alaska would be a *hell* of a drive, plus something that would require passport checks to get to...hm wait.

Actually, it's more doable than that. There's ferries that go to Alaska from places like Bellingham, Washington (used to live there for about 9mo in high school). Though would still require passport checks--and the Winchesters are good at forging stuff, but passports would be hard. ^^; There'd have to be a massively *important* reason to go to that sort of effort, I imagine. Would make for an awesome as heck fic, though. 8D We need to find a fan that lives up there to write us one that really gets the feel of the area well.