Books and Books On Tape I Am Bring

Books On Tape:

Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama.

What Happened, Scott McClellan

Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

Books:

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, George Soros

Into the Wild, John Krakauer

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and The Congress of Vienna, Adam Zamoyski

Soundtrack to the Trip

Coldplay – Viva la Vida

James – Whiplash

Sigur Ros

Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light

New Pornographers – Challengers

Calexico – Garden Ruin

Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha

Mix CD #1

Time Goes Wild – Danny Wilde
Life Is A Highway – Tom Cochran
Man In Motion – John Parr
America – Simon & Garfunkel
Low Rider – War
Panama – Van Halen
Paradise City – Guns N’ Roses
Nothin But A Good Time - Poison
Slow Ride – Foghat
Get It On – Power Station
Runnning Down A Dream – Tom Petty
La Grange – ZZ Top
Running with the Devil – Van Halen
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is - Jet
Long Cool Woman – The Hollies
Sweet Home Alabama – Skynyrd
Hard to Handle – Black Crowes

Mix CD #2
The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
Solsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel
Der Kommisar – After the Fire
Big Country – Big Country
For Reasons Unknown - Killers
Desire – U2
Groove Is In the Heart – Dee-Lite
Bust A Move – Young MC
Jungle Love – The Time
Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
You Spin Me Round – Dead or Alive
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Big Time – Peter Gabriel
Shake It – Metro Station
Stronger - Kanye West
Little Wonders – Rob Thomas
Forever Young – Youth Group

THE TRIP

Tuesday:
Drive from Lawrence, KS to Laramie, WY – 702 mi, 10 hours

Wednesday:
Drive from Laramie, WY to Yellowstone – 430 miles, 7.5 hours

Thursday:
Drive from Yellowstone to Spokane, WA – 522 miles, 8 hours

Friday:
Drive from Spokane, WA to Squamish, B.C. – 456 miles, 7.5 hours

Saturday:
Wedding

Sunday:
Drive from Squamish, B.C. to Reno, NV – 935 miles, 16 hours

Monday:
Drive from Reno, NV to Las Vegas, NV – 448 miles, 8 hours

Tuesday:
Vegas

Wednesday:
Drive from Las Vegas, NV to Colorado Springs, CO – 815 miles, 12 hours

Thursday:
Drive from Colorado Springs, CO to Lawrence, KS – 550 miles, 8.5 hours

What I Will Attempt To Do

This is a temporary blog to chronicle my adventure from Lawrence, Kansas to British Columbia, Canada, then down to Las Vegas and the back to Lawrence. One week in a car, halfway across the country and back again. Because I can't seem to walk out my front door without something wildly ridiculous (which then seems wildly amusing to my friends) happening, this trip should be full of craziness.

Or nothing will happen and I will have created this blog for nothing.

I saw Grizzly Man. I would prefer not to be eaten by a bear.