Some Final Thoughts

• My brain can come up with very interesting expletives on the spot when confronted with an annoying driver. Usually a compound word with one being a curse and the other being a random word. Examples: D@#klick, S@#tpole, F$#knut, etc. It's really pretty amazing.


• No one else in the country gives a shit whats going on in Omaha. It;s getting better, but we are seriously geographically challenged. Our skyline' s laughable. If all my family and friends weren't here, I wouldn't hesitate for a second to move.


• GPS is a beautiful thing.


• Cruise control is too.


• I could've spent 3 times the amount of time I did on that route, I don't know how I ever thought I could go twice as far in the same amount of time.
  I am so glad I did this.


• People asked me what I do to pass the time in the car. I just thought I was easy to please, just listening to music and seeing the scenery, but I noticed that I am constantly playing math games in my head to pass the time. I am analyzing time of day, speed, distance, variations in speed, mileage, gas mileage, mph, distance to the end of my trip, and distance to other key locations constantly. I don't know if anyone else does this, but it's exhausting. And fun, I do enjoy it, I can guess the arrival time several hour away within minutes, if not closer. I'm a dork, maybe I should have been a math teacher instead of a graphic designer.


• I wish I never had to work again.


• I have learned that most of the things I really enjoy when traveling are free or really cheap. I could spend several hours in a state park for 3 bucks or less. And the architecture of skyscrapers and college campuses are amazing to me as well.


• Obviously getting the photography equipment costs a bit, but after the start-up, you can go a long time without putting too much into if you wanted to.


• Good food and live music not included in the free or cheap thing.


• I should have slept in my car more, I went a few hundred over budget, but nothing crazy.


• Staying with friends sometimes ends up costing more than not, when you go out and drink, and eat at nice places, etc.


• I will never know everything. There is so much out there.


• My roommate's home, gotta go, more to come later.