My Trip to Virginia Tech

I finally emerged from the rock I've been hiding under long enough that I could make the one-million-hour trip west to Blacksburg. For the sake of wasting time in the car and trying my hardest to make the butt-numbing hours of a roadtrip go by faster, I always like to visualize progress of long-distance car rides in terms of checkpoints:


Start: Williamsburg
Checkpoint 1: Richmond, 00:58
Checkpoint 2: Charlottesville, 01:17
Checkpoint 3: Roanoke, 02:02
Finish: Blacksburg, 00:49

Total: 05:06 hours


Ok, so I lied. Or Google maps lied. Either way, it was a particularly long drive there. I think the factor that weighed in the most on my perception of time was the weather. It has been very hot lately, like 92 degrees, and this is not conducive to long car rides.


Things I don't like about long drives in the summer:

1. I have to wear shorts, so my thighs stick to the seat. Peeling them off every 20 minutes is the second least fun thing one can do in a car.

2. The bugs are out again, so driving fast = bug splatter on the windshield that even the Brawny man himself couldn't wipe up.

3. Heat makes me sleepy. Sleeping in the bitch seat is impossible. Severe neck pain is highly probable. This is the least fun thing one can do in a car.


But, enough negativity. This weekend was great. I haven't been back to Virginia Tech since my freshman year of college. Nothing's changed. Saturday afternoon, I packed up my hangover, had three bottles of water and a cinnabon mini and headed to campus. When I got there, I felt as though I had never left. There were no tingling nostalgia feelings when I walked by McBryde or Thomas Hall, but I did have a nagging feeling that I had an Intro Chemistry assignment due...


Basically, my weekend can be summed up by the following things:

Friends
Fun
Scrubs
El Rod's
Bollo's
DT
Ho-trains
























Hokie Pride


Yeah, I have to say I still have a little bit. Besides, W&M football is abominable.