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Cross Country Trip, December 2009

Thought you all might enjoy seeing some pics of our big drive across the country... http://www.grapon.com/nick/pics/20091201_crosscountry/    The narrative below will walk you through some of the highpoints... We started our big trip in the pre-dawn hours on Sunday November 29th from Jenny's parent's house in New Castle VA. We had two separate cars because my mom was giving my grandma a Buick but we had to get it up there, along with a trunk-full of Christmas cheer. So we set out, me in the lead driving the Buick over some of West Virginia's most beautiful passes and valleys with Jenny following in the Mazda, loaded to the hilt. Unfortunately, since it was dark, we saw nothing but road paint. We stopped in White Sulfer Springs for breakfast and discovered I had a burnt-out headlight. I had been using all highbeams up to that point and didn't notice until now. With dawn still an hour or more away, I started having trouble switching between high and low beams and at on...