Five days, 2000 miles, and 28 hours on the road later, I can finally say I now live in Dallas, Texas! It was a long journey and to be completely honest I’m not even quite sure what day of the week it is right now, but Chris and I made it, safe and sound! All I know is that drive was a test of endurance and patience. All of which I don’t seem to have in such situations.
Sunday:left Massachusetts early in the morning and started the drive back down south! Arrived in Winchester, Virginia Sunday night to sleep and take a much needed chips, salsa, and queso break.
Monday: left Virginia and drove to Gatlinburg, Tennessee to visit with family.
Tuesday: earned myself a pool and beerita day, which was then interrupted by my cousin’s five pound yorkie crawling under a barbed wire fence to chase a damn cow across an entire hilly field. Fyi, the cow won and the yorkie gave up. Chris came to the rescue and no animals were harmed! Not pictured are the cow and yorkie because they were long gone by the time I remembered I’m a blogger and need to document this situation or else it never happened. #bloggerproblems
Wednesday: got back on the road and headed home to Louisiana! Enjoyed the five pounds of crawfish and a daiquiri my mother dearest had waiting. Real talk: In Louisiana, we have drive-thru daiquiri shops. Yes, you can order a daiquiri to-go from your car, you heard that right.
Thursday: ate my weight in Nola cajun food. Typical move by me. That’s crawfish étouffée and red beans & rice. If you’ve never had this before, shame on you!
Friday: got on the road one last time and ended up in Dallas!
Whoah now. I’m exhausted just replaying the events all over again. It really was a pretty drive, just a little too long. If you don’t hear from me, it’s because I’m sleeping for the next week and a half, unless this one decides to wake me since she’s all caught up on her beauty rest from the whole time driving.
Ps- thanks for all the tips you all left to help survive driving that far alone!
I’m curious, what’s the furthest you’ve ever driven? Did you enjoy it?
Leslie Lukens Martin says
Welcome to Dallas! I know you're going to love it here! I'm just an email away if you have any questions or if I can help with anything!
Bella says
Yay! Welcome to the Big D!! I'm so excited!! I will most definitely be your blate and hop around to some restaurants 🙂
Drive thru Daiquiris? How did I miss that when I went last month? lol
The furthest I've driven is to California, it takes a whole day (24 hours).. next would be Florida but that was only 20 hours.
Jess says
Ahh the food! Gimmeeeee alll the mexican food! I'm glad you made it in one piece!
Hill says
Every time I'm in New Orleans I have to have a drive through daiquiri, including when we went for my grandfather's funeral. There's just something about ordering alcohol from a drive through that brings a smile to my face. I'm not really sure what that says about me, but it's probably not good. Glad you made it to Dallas! I can't even imagine being stuck in a car that long
Helene in Between says
whooo you're here! now don't hold back- where did you eat?! we wanna know!
Lisa C says
Hubs and I drove from PA to Washington state then Washington state to Oklahoma then Oklahoma to North Carolina (three trips in less than a year). But it looks like you fueled up properly along the way!
Amanda Nicole says
Glad you made it safe and sound!!
Kate at Green Fashionista says
Yay you made it gurlie and you're back in the south!
A pool day with beeritas sounds perfect mid road trip 🙂
Kate @ Like American Honey says
I live in Northern Virginia, and I'm 95% positive I've been to that exact Mexican restaurant in Winchester…it's not that big of a town, how many Mexican restaurants can there be?? Haha! Have fun in Dallas!
Emily says
Ahhhh….I love Texas and good old Dallas. I need to move there. 🙂 Enjoy your new home.