That counter (lower right) is sure ticking fast! I have exactly one month until orientation week begins, or until life as I know it is turned upside down. In even less time, my mom and I embark on what I am calling The Great Trek. My mom and I will load up my bitty car and drive just over 3,000 miles in about 6 days, and we'll see parts of the country neither of us has seen before. I, personally, have never driven east of Idaho! We'll stop at some key landmarks like Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands, and Montana Ale Works (that's key, right?). I am really looking forward to it, and I hope when the time comes my mom is too!


If you have suggestions of other places of interest along the way, please let me know! We don't have many stops planned after South Dakota, so if you have any suggestions for Omaha, St. Louis, Louisville (is Independence, MO worth a stop? I remember purchasing my oxen and wagon there in the Oregon Trail game) or anyplace else, please leave a comment!

In other news, I think I finally found a home in Richmond! My roommate and I will be living in the Church Hill neighborhood, just a mile or so from school. It's a historic neighborhood undergoing revitalization/preservation and is also the site where the largest Civil War hospital was located (according to wikipedia)! The church the area is named after was also the site where Patrick Henry famously declared, "Give me liberty or give me death."

I apologize for not updating frequently, for now I am spending most of my time getting organized for the move and enjoying my mini summer vacation. I'd hate to bore you (y'all) with tales of laying by the lake and cleaning my closet!