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| Hi everyone,
I'm officially in Long Beach, California, as of Monday afternoon. I'm gonna update my blog and everything to include the conclusion of the Road Trip, but for now I will just state something semi-random.
Me and Fred, we are a great team. I am so happy that God put us together. And at times, I'm also pleasantly surprised. It's pretty cool.
We're pretty settled in at this point. I have to organize the books and dvds, and some other odds and ends, and then we'll be pretty much smooth sailing. I'm hungry. Mr. Esguerra is doing some male bonding right now. He's just built me several things while I took a nap - a rotating fan, a media tower, and some chairs. Not to mention setting up the wireless network so I can get internet by the pool. Right now he's building the foosball table. But dude, I am not lazy - i HAD to take a nap because I basically spent the whole day setting up the rooms, unpacking and making a home for everything, and yeah. That's tiring!
I'm hungry!
It's interesting being a grown-up. I even cooked breakfast this morning for him! And it turned out delicioso! I don't know how dinners will be though. I forgot my Rachel Ray cookbooks on the east side lol.
But this whole grown-up thing - we'll see how it goes lol.
Road trip conclusion to follow....
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| Okay I will have to catch up on blogging but not right now. Random observations though:
Denver Colorado Congregation - Small, but very friendly. Reminds me of when SNJ first started. You can hear birds chirping in the main sanctuary. Gives it a very natural, woodsy feel.
Got Lollicup round two right near the chapel. Got vanilla snow flavor. Very good.
Colorado - lots of evergreens and hills and mountains. Very scenic. The sunset was awesome. Purples among the mountains and bright orange and reds right around the sun. Will post pictures soon.
Lots of driving to do today as well. Gonna see Four Corners and Grand Canyon.
Having the time of my life. And so happy to be spending it with the love of my life.
I miss you all on the East Coast. I will come visit soon. Stay cool.
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| hi everyone... it's day three of our road trip. we're in columbia, missouri right now and getting ready to drive hours to hays, kansas. last night we got our first bubble teas from the lollicup near the university of missouri. things have been really cool so far. what an experience. here's the album for our pictures so far.
http://picasaweb.google.com/natasha.theresa/RoadTripFromNJToCA
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
1:34pm, Central Time
Hi everyone,
We’re driving towards Kansas City, Missouri right now. Last night we made it to Columbia, Missouri where we got our first road trip bubble tea from the Lollicup there. It’s near University of Missouri. We must have looked like such tourists b/c we came in all smiling and with the video camera out and just looked so amazed. The ladies there were so helpful and nice. They were probably wondering why we seemed so excited about bubble tea hahaha. We each got two bubble teas (me – caramel & thai; Fred – taro & royal milk). We filled them in on our bubble tea adventure and also on how we met. They seemed so happy for us. We took pictures with them and then looked up our hotel for the night.
We ended up staying at the Hilton Garden Inn. It was pretty nice and spiffy. Breakfast buffet was surprisingly only $8.95. And it was really good. And now we’re on our way to Kansas City. We plan to try out some ribs at a place called Arthur Bryant’s which was in our Road Trip book that my friend Grace from work gave me. I’m hungry hahaha. But we should be there in less than an hour. We’re also gonna buy a SLR professional camera to take nicer pictures. Then we’ll continue another 3 hours to Hays, Kansas.
Observations of Missouri and Illinois… lots of grass & farms. And random Fireworks superstores. Also, at the major cities we’ve been to, everything’s very.. spacious and spread out. It all looks relatively new and modern.
1:55pm, Central Time
Wow, now we’re nearing Kansas City, I’m starting to see civilization. Things are very big out here too. There’s this random song on the ITouch playing. The song’s like, “Everyone’s a little bit racist, everyone makes judgments based on race!” LOL.
9:30pm, Central Time
We're now in Hays, Kansas. Oh, some random observations first. On the drive through Kansas, there were a lot of grassy hills. And not just regular hills... they were very pronounced hills.. something like the ones on the TV show Telletubbies. Like, very round small hills with random trees on it. Secondly, you can go like hundreds of miles and see nothing but farms, cows, steers, and these rolls of layers of grass. Look at my picasa account to see what I'm talking about. What are those layers of grass rolled up for? They are scary. Ummm, we're in the Days Inn tonight and while it's alright, the area is a little questionable. But we should be alright.
Okay gonna go for now! Check out my picasa for road trip day 3 pictures!
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| Hi Everyone!
I'm writing to you from Covington, KY. We're in the Marriott by the riverfront. It's a pretty nice view. Trying to get acquainted with the Macbook Pro we just got. Yes, we've converted to Apple. But I still got to get used to it lol.
Pictures will come once I figure out how to properly use the computer. Slightly annoying lol. Love you all!
My first journal entry on the road:
Monday, August 11, 2008
10:30pm
Somewhere near the west border of Pennsylvania (Rt. 70 West, around mile marker 22)
Hi everyone,
This is Tasha starting her travel journal. Right now we’re stuck in traffic somewhere near the west end of PA, that kinda sucks lol. But it’s been interesting so far. PA has a lot of trees and stuff. We kinda had a late start to our day because we had to pick up some things for the road, especially a MacBook Pro. Oh yes. Our gift to ourself lol. But now we can easily document things as we continue to travel towards the West Coast. We were supposed to start traveling at 10am, but of course, that did not happen. It was really hard to pack up and leave. I was trying to delay the inevitable, but alas, it was time to go.
Let me actually start from last night. People came over to my house for Fred & my gift-opening/farewell party. A LOT of tears were shed. It was especially hard for me to say goodbye to my little cousins. Man oh man. Then saying goodbye to all my friends was harsh too. Tears even came from those who I’ve never seen cry. I am going to miss all of them. I still keep thinking about just how helpful everyone was for the wedding. How everyone pulled together to help me and Fred make our day as fun and memorable as possible. I can’t stop thanking them enough. And above all, how wonderful God has been throughout this whole process. Saying goodbye was not easy. While I am excited to see what life is like on the West Coast, I could not easily and readily walk away from my life on the East Coast..
Which brings me to today. Saying goodbye to my ateh and to my parents left me sobbing. I’ve only seen my dad cry 3 times in my life – and one of those times was today. The other times were when his mom died like 10 years ago and when he watched the movie Powder (why would he cry, I do not know). But yeah, I didn’t expect to see my dad cry today. It broke my heart even more. We’ve had our differences, and sometimes couldn’t stand each other, but now that it was time to part we both realized we weren’t completely ready to face it. And my poor mom. My poor poor mom. I can’t even write about it anymore without tearing up. I left her my baby penquin to keep her company. She called me up to ask me why I left it. And I told her it’s because I want it to keep her company while I’m gone.
I miss them so much.
But now I will tell you what I’ve been up to since our official departure around 3:30pm from Philadelphia. We made two stops. One at a reststop around 6:30pm.. and then one stop at Walmart & Starbucks in Belle Vernon, PA around 8:30pm. We got some drinks and Ipod touch accessories at Walmart and drove the wrong way down a random one-way street – yay for Fred, lol! I drove for the first 3 hours and Fred has been driving ever since. We will probably switch off soon because the car seems to be swaying a little bit while I’ve been typing lol. Plus, Fred keeps yawning hehe.
We’re running very much behind schedule, we’re supposed to be in Covington, KY by around 2:45am. Lol Hopefully we’ll get there sooner than that lol. Right now we’re in Buffalo, PA and it’s 11pm.
Random observations so far… lots of moo cows and awesome sunset. Purple skies and clouds down in the valleys. Signs for falling rocks and lots of curvy highways. Hills filled with trees and tunnels that run straight through the bases of mountains. Plenty of highways with no night lights, just reflectors.
We arrived at Covington, KY at 3:30am. We plan to start much earlier on Tuesday to get to Columbia, Missouri before the evening.
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| reaching for something in the distance
so close you can almost taste it
release your inhibitions
feel the rain on your skin
..the rest is still unwritten.
Saying goodbye to everyone was so tough. So very tough. I am really going to miss all of you here on the East Coast. Thank you for everything. Please please please keep in touch, and to you little ones... I know you'll make me proud.
I LOVE YOU ALL.
And so the road trip begins....
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