For those of you who don't know me... this is an amazing feat. I have the worst luck when it comes to cars. From speeding tickets to hitting deer to getting them set on fire, you can count on me to damage a car when its in my hands. Thank goodness the curse wasn't with me this trip. I am convinced its due to my good luck rock I purchased at the dollar store that I wear every time I get into my car.
With lack of accidents or tickets, not counting my mother, the trip consisted of tons of great stops.
I began my trip driving to Spokane and stayed with some friends I played Volleyball with in High School. As I have said before in my blogs it is SO good to see old friends. It brings a happiness to see people from home. The next day I went to pick my little sister from Whitworth University and we started our journey! My little sister Sonja is in search of the school she is going to attend next fall. We hit up four great schools. After Whitworth we headed down to Moscow Idaho where we stayed with another friend from home and toured their campus which great, they showed us the dorms and brought us into the labs where their engineering students were working with large machines. Exciting stuff to see!
From there we hit the road for the seven hour trip to BOZEMAN!!! Being an Advocat here of course I was trying very hard to get my little sister to come here so I took her around and showed her every cool thing I could think of about Bozeman. Which is a lot! Unfortunately we didn't get to stay in Bozeman as long as we had hoped due to our grandfathers passing so we headed to Billings to support the fam instead of hit up the hot springs and go skiing.
We didn't let that kink in the road get in the way of seeing all the schools though! We spent two days in Billings helping out with funeral plans and then headed down Colorado School of Mines. Seeing as my little sister is a genus and super nerd (I just like teasing her because Im jealous) she got accepted and offered the most money they give out to freshman for test scores. My mom tagged along on this leg of our road trip which was great because she paid for everything! Of course we also enjoyed having mother daughter time. All three of us fell in love with School of Mines right off the bat. My mom and I both decided we wanted to start over and go to school for engineering. This part of the trip was super quick, we drove down on Thursday and back on Friday so that we could get to the first funeral of two in three days... A bit rough but we all made it though together and got to see lots of relatives and friends that we hadn't seen in sometime.
Saturday morning we headed to Wibaux Montana for my Great Uncle Leroy's Funeral which made my trip milage pass 3000 miles!!!
I have decided I am done being in a car for a while now.
Being in the car for so long made me feel like I aged 40 years and became bent over and arthritic. It was so good to get back to Bozeman and sleep in my own bed!
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