Just real quick, before I go to bed, I wanted to share this with you all:

This was my summer.

Nearly 8,000 miles not including stops, getting lost, or detours to the world famous Corn Palace.

Spending 20 days on the road,
Crashing in like 7 hotels, 3 National parks, 2 relatives’ places, 2 friends’ places.
Something like 30 major cities, with tons in between.

Seeing Chicago, Omaha, Rapid City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Mountain View, San Jose, Ridgecrest, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Studio City, Universal City, Laguna, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, San Clemente, Costa Mesa, Albuquerque, Roswell, Carlsbad, Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Nashville, Atlantic City, and State College, not to mention tons of little towns in between.

Eating Chicago Pizza, Drinking Omaha Microbrews, Driving in the cloudy Mt. Rushmore weather, Getting stuck in tourist traps that brainwash you, hanging out in the garden of the gods, climbing pike’s peak, viewing vast amounts of nothingness, witnessing the great salt lake, marveling at Yosemite national park, driving through san francisco, shopping on Haight st, trampling through the mojave desert, bordering death valley, spending the day amongst the great sequoias, hiking around the joshua trees, attempting to surf the pacific, longboarding every day, spending 2 months in long beach, frequently shopping and skating beverly hills, meeting amazing californian people, learning as much about southern california as possible, cruising the real route 66, hunting aliens and surviving storms outside Roswell, pissing off cops in Texas, crashing their parks at 5am, doing the whole bourbon street thing, beers and music in nashville, Braving DC/Baltimore/Philly Traffic, Casinos in Atlantic city, Having my feet in two oceans within a week of eachother, and making all back in one piece to good old State College. Seriously, that’s about as short as I can put it, and there’s a whole lot of stuff in between all that…

I love summertime, With the way things have been going, I’ve got one hell of an adventure to top.

How was yours? =)