I am very glad this trip is finally going to work out! After trying to find affordable plane tickets with no real success, I finally decided to go in with Dave Cook's road trip idea. At first, it didn't look like it was going to work out, because 2 of our 4 people were not selected to be "eligible" to purchase BCS National Championship Game tickets. Yesterday, we did some calling around and found out that Corey Funderburg and Jonathan Spann were interested in roadtripping it with us. This was great news as I was starting to worry that I might not get to go cheer the Tide on to #13.Once everyone committed to the trip Wednesday evening, we all went to Coleman Coliseum today to purchase our $200 (yikes!) tickets for the BCSNCG.
Currently we have some leads on getting good rates on a rental car that gets good gas mileage. This is important for our 4000+ mile trip! I hope to make some more progress on that tomorrow.
I was previously thinking we would leave from Mobile to make the trip, however I think we will probably leave from Tuscaloosa. I think it would be a little too much to drive 4,000 miles from CA to get back to Mobile, then have to drive 200 miles to Tuscaloosa all the day before class starts. So that's that.
One of the things that I am most excited for about this trip is the opportunity to write this blog chronicling the happenings of this cross-country adventure. We are going to bring a power inverter for the cigarette lighter outlet so each of my tripmates can write entries on the laptop and then we'll upload them to the blog when we stop for food at a restaurant (which hopefully has WIFI!).
Stay tuned for updates in the coming days and weeks as we nail down some of the details of the trip.
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