Metric here. Welcome to the blog. This is where the three of us will document our progress as we travel across the country. I hope that anyone who reads this will experience at least a small taste of the thrill and excitement of what we're doing.
In many ways this trip is emblematic of a larger theme. My two traveling companions and I are entering the prime of life, and we have a small window of time available to us in which the practical responsibilities of adulthood have not yet overtaken our adult freedoms. For us, a road trip is perhaps the ultimate single expression of that stage in life.
It's also something of a reunion. Hollywood and Record and I have been good friends for well over a decade, but as childhood friends often do, we went our separate ways for college and saw each other less and less frequently. When we realized what was happening, we agreed to take a road trip before the forces of life brought us even further apart. The trip is not a last hurrah of friendship, but it will mark the close of one chapter in our lives, and perhaps the beginning of another.
Of course, we weren't that sentimental when we came up with this idea. It began with a conversation that probably went something like this:
“I've got a crazy idea.”
“What?”
“Let's go on a road trip.”
“To California?”
“Yeah!”
“Let's do it!”
And so we are going on a road trip. I can't wait to see what happens.
