OK, I have a couple hours of freee mee time, so I'll type it up about each state and my trip.
So, our original flight got us into chi-town @ 3:45 to catch another plane to Indy @ approx. 4:45 and arrive there in Indy at 7:30pm Friday night. Well, Chi-town recieved a really fun thing called a ..typhoon? Tornado? Something like that, so they closed down the airport. We got delayed and circled above chi-town for damn near 3 hours, then went and landed in some ghetto ass airport where the bastard who gasses up planes couldn't fill our plane because he hadn't ever seen a 757 before. So we had to then wait for the main tech to come help him fill up our plane tank. Soooo, we finally arrive in chi-town @ approx. 9:20 PM.
All flights leaving to Indy for the night had been cancelled; so everyone who was @ the airport waiting had already rebooked. That meant we were shit out of luck for a plane ticket until ..... 6:45 PM the next day. That's just not going to cut it for us, we both have school and work. Missing more days than scheduled = NOno.
So we decide we have to find some way to get there either tonight, or by tomorrow morning. We try all of the rental car places; nope. None of them allow for one way trips, and most of them require an itinerary. Fuckers! So we decide to see if the Amtrak could do it for us!
So, we decide to be adventurous and take the train to Union station. I don't think we have ever been so nervous in our lifes. Jump on this train type thing which is apparently just as cool as a CT. 2.25 and we have a ride to the end and back! They say we get off at clinton, go up the stairs, walk 2 blocks, and you can't miss it. Every single god damn person uses the phrase, "Just go 2 blocks, can't miss it."
Anyways, so we feeel way out of place since we are the only white people on the whole damn train, everyone's sizing us up, debating on if they shoud jump us and what not. Takes approx. 45 minutes to get to Clinton, we get off and head up the stairs to Union Station and right behind us? The hottest siberian chick we've ever seen, power walking like a crazy person. We actually had to jog to keep up w/ her; we talked to her for a couple minutes about the trip while walking at the speed of light, and then finally came upon union station only to find no trains go to INdy. Well ... shit.
We finally see a mcdonalds we can eat at, since the people on the plane didn't give us any extra food or beverages, we'd been famished for hours. So we ordered our food and smashed back to the train station to take us back to the airport, conceding to our shitty flight that we had.
While waiting for the train back at the terminal in Clinton; we start chatting it up with some guy who is wearing shorts/sandals... Wierd since it's like 40 degrees with a windchill factor of FREEZING. So, he suggests that we 'take the dog!' He knows the number by heart, calls up grey hound for us and we get a bus from Chi-town to Indy for $35 a person. 3 AM to 7:25.. WEeeeee, we are going to make this shit after all.
Take the bus, still no sleep. Jon pick's us up in his Dodge truck and we roll to the Cracker Barrell. Nicest and most laid back people you'll ever meet in that damn restuarant. Food was awesome, and for only 8.25 I got three plates of food, steak/eggs/hashbrowns/apple stuff/biscuits n' gravy and damnnn, it was good.
So, Jon put us up for a night in the hotel but we couldn't get to Columbus, IN to enjoy it so we went and stopped by it real quick so my friend and I could shower. I smash out first and we take offf to see the car.
We get to the car and the first thing I think is, holy shit those wheels are wide. Second is, uhhh tint needs to go. Third is... What's the speedo max out @?
Jon takes me for a test run after it warms up, spitting fireballs all over the place. This mother fucker is LOUD. Super loud. I'll have to post a couple vid's up once my camera charges.
So, I get to drive it and I don't kill it my first time. The release point is at the verrrry end of it catching so it's quite hard to get used too though. I killed it numerous times at gas stations. Everyone just watches you wondering why the fuck you're revving your engine; LOL.
I tried to race a Phaton, my friend said it's a $100,000 dollar car from volkswagon with a v12 but had to back out since it was wet and we were going into a corner at damn near 130.
We got through Indy, Chi town, and wisconsin without a hitch. At the end of wisconsin, snow started showing up. We get into Minnesota and there is a LOT of snow. Roads have ice all over them. We still smash 70. We had to slow down at a couple parts because the ice was so bad we were driving in the middle of two lanes with black ice on either side of us, just barely squeeking by without hitting it.
And then, it keeps getting more gay.
We get to South Dakota and the weather is actually pretty good besides those signs that say, "Watch for Ice on Bridge" then you cross the bridge and the whole thing is black ice.
The farther we went, the better the road conditions started getting on South Dakota until we passed over this HUGE blood spot and started getting seriously freaked out. We slowed wayyy down from 90-100 to 60 or 70 and double checked if I could react quick enough to avoid a deer by swerving all over the road! I figured @ 70 I could react pretty well, so we smashed like that for crazy long.
About 150 miles to the end of South Dakota the weather started to suck dick again. The ground was icey and we were going up hill into the mountains. It took us a long time to get out of South Dakota because it feels like it's never going to end. Same with Montana, it was 550 miles long and South Dakota was like 490 or something.
We get to Wyoming and there is this red shit all over the ground to help melt the snow. If it hadn't been there we would have been fucked. We smashed at like 80 in it all the way through wyoming.
Once in Montana the weather cond. turned beautifully. We get there and it's like 60 degrees out, sunny. So we start smashing, cruising @ like 90-100, hit upper 150's a couple times then start to conserve the gas since in Wyoming was our last 92 octane fill up. Through Montana we got approx. 38 miles to the gallon on one tank of gas. The car is tuned perfectly, and does 90 like it does 20, except you don't go sideways.
Once we get to the end of Montana I really start hallucinating. At one point I remember thinking I was in a video game and that they had restarted me because I had already gone around this corner. So, I finally gave in and let my friend drive. He drove about an hour before getting too scared thinking he was going to wreck it; and I jumped in from my hour of sleep! Windshield squirters didn't work so we had to keep getting off to clean the windshield off.
Once we got into Idaho, we stepped it up and started going as fast as possible whenever possible. We could SMELL washington.
We get into Spokane only to find out it's snowing on the pass.. OH well, we are making it home tonight! We get to the snow and we are driving completely ok for a while in the snow doing like 50-60 until we hit the part where the snow is sticking, fast and hard. We slow down to like 20 and are doing pretty good until the **Above** incident takes place.
Once we get down to a part that isn't snowing helllla hard and the snow plow guys clear it up for us, we smash again. Only, coming down from snoqualmie there are no lights and it's raining at like maximum speed, windshield wipers on full and couldn't seeee anything at all so we had to slow down to like 30. Hydroplaning alll over the place since the deep groves in the road were filled with water.
Did a couple third gear pulls through the tunnels to check the sound out, it was pretty G.D. Loud.
We arrive home at like 4:00 AM.
I'm cruisin down my local area and first I see one cop. Greatttt, 2 minutes later I see another cop. Joined approx. 1 minute after that by 2 MORE cops. I pull up to the stop light and roll down my window. A lady officer pulls up next to me.
I beggg her not to pull me over, telling her I've been driving straight from Indy to here, 2300 miles and I just got home right now.
She laughs and tells me the 'plate and spoiler' are interesting. LOL
There is a lot more I could tell but cut it out due to the volume of the story.
I should have pictures later today.
