south by southeast
By anders pearson 27 Jul 2003
lani has decided to give up her glamorous temp job in NYC and go to grad school at UT Austin starting this fall.
while it will be sad for me to see her go, i can at least look forward to one thing: road trip.
in mid august, we’re taking a good 5 or 6 days and driving from NYC to Austin, Texas. we’ve enlisted Tuck to come along and help out with the driving (since i don’t really drive). the plan is to take our time and explore the interesting parts of the american southeast. definite stops for us are Memphis and New Orleans.
other than that, our plans are still pretty open-ended. none of us have really spent much time in the area so we don’t know what the cool places to see are. if you know of interesting sites that are roughly between new york and austin, please suggest them. are there any scenic roads that we should try to incorporate into our route? are there any areas that we should carefully avoid? any tips for yankees making it through the deep south without experiencing Deliverance first hand?
also, since none of us are terribly wealthy at the moment, we’d like to do this as cheaply as possible. a big chunk of our expenses will probably be hotels. unless we can find couches to crash on. we know people in richmond, va, and chapel hill, nc, but other than that we have no friends in the region. so if you know people who might let us sleep on their floor for a night, let us know that too.