In the past few weeks we have been fortunate enough to welcome some friends and family from Australia to our home here in South Bend. We have however begun to notice a slight pattern starting to emerge...with all our visitors number one priority being a road trip OUT of South Bend. First it was our trip to Kentucky to sample the Bourbon trail...and this past weekend...with my sister's lifelong dream in tow...it was back in the Red Devil for the casual 12 hour drive to Georgia. Why Georgia I hear you say? Well if you had harbored an overwhelming obsession with the band REM since you were 9 years old...and REM happened to be from Athens, Georgia...then this location would be on the top of your list too.So there we were...two hours and four drinks after Jen succesfully completed the GRE...car loaded and with a close friend and Georgia local in tow...on our way through two states to the birthplace of REM. We drove through the night, eating breakfast at dinner time, dinner at breakfast time, delirious and attempting to sleep in the most uncompromising positions. We arrived a
t 6am and gratefully greeted unconsciousness at Rae's grandmothers home on the outskirts of Atlanta.
The following day we were back in the car...still attempting to sleep...on our way to Athens and the Athfest music festival. Athens turned out to be a brilliant college town, with bars upon bars, beautiful streets and everything within walking distance...everything South Bend isn't. The live music was great and after surveying the historic sites...where Michael Stipe first experienced diarrhea...where REM played their first gig...where Michael Stipe bought his first pair of pants...we were back on the road to Atlanta.
Atlanta is a great city...home of the 1996 Olympics and also happens to possess the worlds largest aquarium. Well, since we were obviously too late for the games...we decided to check out the aquarium. This watery paradise contained a huge selection of fish, seals, penguins and whales...and if you were willing to beat down 30 or 40 three year olds then you could touch some of them as well. Unfortunately, my sister is none too fond of crowds...even more unfortunately we arrived on a Saturday and Atlanta happens to be home to approximately 5 million people...therefore much of Kat's time was spent attempting to glare people to death.
After a short rest it was off to the airport to drop Jen...who was deserting us and flying to LA for the summer. After 10 months together we realized that the long-distance was t
he only thing that kept the relationship interesting...and thus decided it was time for a break...and will therefore spend the summer on opposite sides of the country. We are both looking forward to getting back to phone calls and emails...as well as the ever present ridicule of close friends and family.
As for us...it was back on the road, tripping through picturesque Tennesse and 'too big for its own good' Kentucky to our humble home in Indiana. With Kat's dream complete...and my state's visited count up to 34...it was time to get back to work for a few days before we head to New York and my summer internship.
Pictured: Athfest...who wants to pat the monkey wearing Depends...and our friends at the aquarium.
t 6am and gratefully greeted unconsciousness at Rae's grandmothers home on the outskirts of Atlanta.The following day we were back in the car...still attempting to sleep...on our way to Athens and the Athfest music festival. Athens turned out to be a brilliant college town, with bars upon bars, beautiful streets and everything within walking distance...everything South Bend isn't. The live music was great and after surveying the historic sites...where Michael Stipe first experienced diarrhea...where REM played their first gig...where Michael Stipe bought his first pair of pants...we were back on the road to Atlanta.
Atlanta is a great city...home of the 1996 Olympics and also happens to possess the worlds largest aquarium. Well, since we were obviously too late for the games...we decided to check out the aquarium. This watery paradise contained a huge selection of fish, seals, penguins and whales...and if you were willing to beat down 30 or 40 three year olds then you could touch some of them as well. Unfortunately, my sister is none too fond of crowds...even more unfortunately we arrived on a Saturday and Atlanta happens to be home to approximately 5 million people...therefore much of Kat's time was spent attempting to glare people to death.
After a short rest it was off to the airport to drop Jen...who was deserting us and flying to LA for the summer. After 10 months together we realized that the long-distance was t
he only thing that kept the relationship interesting...and thus decided it was time for a break...and will therefore spend the summer on opposite sides of the country. We are both looking forward to getting back to phone calls and emails...as well as the ever present ridicule of close friends and family.As for us...it was back on the road, tripping through picturesque Tennesse and 'too big for its own good' Kentucky to our humble home in Indiana. With Kat's dream complete...and my state's visited count up to 34...it was time to get back to work for a few days before we head to New York and my summer internship.
Pictured: Athfest...who wants to pat the monkey wearing Depends...and our friends at the aquarium.
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