#2: Travel 1,069 Miles To Sanity.

Dear next Rest Area:
         Please magically appear on the side of the road soon.
Maybe I should have brought my own toilet paper,
Your anxious pit-stopper

Taking full advantage of our just-made-up “Road Trip Rules”, the bestie and I have started our epic road trip from Virginia to New Orleans with the bucket list mentality in mind.

• First stop: Wytheville VA, where the world’s BIGGEST pencil is (We can all dream, can’t we?)
• Somewhere along the way: Chattanooga, TN (Because it sounds cool.)
• A definite must-stop: Knoxville, TN (Because it also sounds cool.)
• A necessary stop: pit stops and rest stops (many, since we have such small bladders.)
• A food stop, among many: Smoothie King for fuel and sustenance
• A necessary stop: grandmother-style, hourly pee breaks
• A photo opportunity: Snaps from the person who’s NOT driving
• An Instagram-worthy stop: Do-It-Yourself Sandwich “Make-your-own-at-the-local-produce-stand”
• The last & final stop: New Orleans, LA

Stop #1: Wytheville, VA
We came, we saw, we conquered the world’s biggest pencil. Which Sinead was super excited about. Her homework could be finished.   

Stop #2: A random Tennessee rest stop

ME:: Umm, what are you doing?
Sinead:: What does it look like I’m doing? Wee… !
Me:: Hold up, I wanna frolic down the extra-long staircase too. Here, take my picture.

Stop #3: A staple crop on our 18-hour roadtrip to New Orleans, corn stalks.

Stop #6: Hello from the world’s longest wooden pedestrian bridge!