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Day 5: New Orleans

2**11 Whoohooooot! It is around 8:40 central time and we have passed 2048 mark. It feels like just yesterday that we crossed the 1024 mark. We are pretty sure that our next mark at 4096 will take a while but it is inevitable too :-) Location : Paulding, MS 39348 Posted by Pim van Pelt at 6:44 AM Steamboat and Gumbo Pot We arrived at New Orleans pretty early, around noon. Read more...

Day 4: Nashville

Knoxville? No, Nashville!!1 Paul and I woke up this morning at around 8:30am after noticing yesterday that we crossed a timezone and are now at central time. We were in Gordonsville this morning, and took an easy drive down to Nashville TN. Chris D said we had to check it out, because Knoxville was boring. I’m now no longer sure he was trying to compare Knoxville to Nashville … because while quite large, the city’s features are, well, not exciting. Read more...

Day 3: Tennessee

Getting our kicks! This is the first post from a real diner(tm) in virginia! We had been getting our kicks, on route 66, and programmed in a little detour: skyland VA. This is in the middle of shenandoah woods - a neck of the woods which was warmly recommended to me by andrew k in california before we started. I am now sipping my steaming hot and otherwise completely terrible coffee after ordering a low-carb breakfast: 3 eggs sunnyside up, a few strips of bacon, and a carb-free piece of toast. Read more...

Day 2: Washington Columbia

Washington and Columbia hokay, so here i am quite intoxicated from the evening, not day, of today’s magical adventure. this morning we got up at about 9:30am, after we had said to one and another that we would get up at 8am, but somehow this did not work out as planned. not to worry though, we got up, jumped into the car and (after a quick stop over at safeway for some supplies and tape to hold the phone / satnav / e-mail terminal / musicplayer / kitchensink to the dash) drove up to the smithsonian museum in the nation’s capital. Read more...