Strange Magic

Oh man, what a journey it was! My dad and I booked it to Vermont and arrived in South Royalton on Sunday afternoon. I've spent the past three days entrenched in orientation. Some family friends from Boston came up and offered all manner of assistance to me while I'm out here, (for which I'm grateful) and kept my dad company while I was in orientation.

South Royalton was a bit of a culture shock because it is so green, and the roads are small and curvy, and I'm going to die either from ice or bears, and the town is TINY!!!
It is quaint and cute, and although the smallness was the least of my worries, I guess it was the only one I could really articulate cause my dad kept asking me how I was feeling about it, and really after the first few hours of "holy Friday nobody lives here" I kind of got over that. It is more unnerving to be so far away from everyone I know but I think its going to be good here. Until a bear eats me, that is going to be lame.

road trip rundown:

• drove through Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and into Vermont in three and a half days.
• Stella behaved wonderfully and never broke down, she had a hard time with the mountains, but she made it.
• Henry kept us supplied with tunes.
• We ate at Burger King twice.
• bands Henry supplied us with: Anberlin, ELO, Beatles, Beach Boys, mae, All Time Low, The Doobie Brothers, The Who, The Guess Who, Cartel, There for Tomorrow, Jimmy Eat World, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, The White Stripes, Conditions, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Boston, The Hush Sound, The Format (my dad didn't like them...), Fleet Foxes, Fleetwood Mac, Acceptance and perhaps more... I can't remember right now.
• number of times I thought that speed limits below 75 were stupid: 11 million
• number of times I wished that everlasting asphalt (road repairs are a thing of the past!)existed: 2,000
• number of corn fields I saw: infinite
• number of bugs that live in Nebraska: infinite
• number of states I could really see myself returning to after just a brief stint there:3 (Illinois, Connecticut, Massachusetts).

So listen, I was going to post a bunch of pictures but the internet is being lame and I'm getting so sleepy and it isn't set up at my apartment yet and I just want to go home. So, if you want to see more pictures, check em out on Facebook. You'll see my apt, the school, and Montpelier, the state capitol:

Wyoming fields with mountains in the distance. I thought it was pretty so I told my dad to take a picture.
We saw a lot of these...

This is the Mississippi river, we were crossing into Illinois at this point.