“your registration? hurry up meow.”

BUSTED PART TWO!
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oh, mariel… but i will say this: i’ve been in the exact same position before. texas cops LOVE flying over the median with their lights flashing. when my sister and i were driving from arizona to boston, we (i) got pulled over for speeding, and the guy that nabbed us (me) came flying out of nowhere across the grass of the median. scariness. and now the same thing has happened to poor mariel! in her defense, we were driving 10 to 11 hours yesterday and we just wanted to g-d get there. and the guy was nice enough; kind of robotic with his “you were going to fast i’m going to issue you a citation i’ll be right back with that” all one sentence action. but otherwise didn’t hassle us too much.

that action went down in amarillo, tx, which is basically right in the middle of the panhandle, which means it was a perfect time to stop for lunch, which means we went to….

CRACKER BARREL! and i know what you’re thinking. you’re thinking, “trons, you crazy! who likes cracker barrel?!”. and to that i respond, “I DO!”. on at least two other road trips, i have been promised a stop at a cracker barrel, and yet those trips concluded with no cracker barrel! sad! so i made mariel and lucy promise me that we would stop, and yesterday the stars aligned and that promise was kept. it was pretty phenomenal. i got the grilled cheese and a raspberry lemonade, which mariel thought was crazy because wasn’t the point of going to get their much-famed comfort food? unfortunately, most comfort food is packed with chicken and/or steak, but i did end up ordering some cornbread, too, which i think made everybody happy. especially me. check out the flickr page to see awesome shots of me with a menu.

the rest of the drive yesterday is kind of a blur (like most of the rest of the trip by this point), but i do remember passing into central time, and seeing the western hemisphere’s largest cross (also at the flickr), which is held quite dear in my heart since i’ve passed it on basically every other major road trip i’ve been on.

then we passed through oklahoma city (pretty quickly, but it seemed nice!), and arrived in stillwater around 730. we met the fam, and erin’s mom made us some incredible guacamole, so we all sat around outside, talking about the road trip and drinking beer and eating delicious snacks. then we decided to go out for dinner, so we got some take-out thai and stopped at a bar on the way home to play pool. i, very unfortunately, had left my camera in mariel’s car, but we did get a couple of polaroids of that, so you can see those when we arrive back in brooklyn, next monday.

it’s really weird to say “next monday” like that, to be honest. we’ve had basically no concept of time since we left on this crazy adventure. the only things we really knew about dates were st patrick’s day and easter, and even then we weren’t completely sure about what days of the week they were. but i guess now that we’re getting closer to the end, it’s easier to comprehend an actual sort of timing to things. bizarre.

but anyway, we hung out at this bar, where there were ZERO cowboy hats in sight. i was really bummed out about that. but hopefully we’ll catch some sightings tonight, at tumbleweeds, where they apparently have split the bar so one side is a hip hop club, and the other side is square dancing. i’m ready for it, though.

look for an “adventures in stillwater” sometime tomorrow!