12:38pm
So we actually managed to get up and get our self’s fed this morning all before noon. For anyone who knows us, that is quite the accomplishment. Matt, the crazy nut that he is actually got himself out of bed at 7:30 and went for a run. Mr. and Mrs. Wiggins, you should be proud of your son. Lord knows we aren’t 😛 The car seems to be running well this morning. We do have a coolant leak that we are getting taken care of in the next couple minutes. And that has been pretty much our day so far. No points have been awarded as of yet. I think we all just want to get out on the highway and get the hell through Portland with very little distractions.

3:53pm
One thing is for sure. Gas is going to cost a little more than I think we originally planned for. Unfortunately it is kinda hard for me to “crunch” the numbers right now. No internet FTL. I think everyone is a little burnt out from yesterday still, here is a quick run down of what people are doing RIGHT NOW:

Matt: Driving
Alex: Hanging out up front with Matt, peering into the distant with his goggles on.
Graham: Occasionally messing around with some time-lapse footage he is taking.
Paul: Talking to Graham about the time-lapse stuff.
Bill: Writing Stuff
Ben and Adam: Playing DS, not sure if they are playing a game together.
Morgan: Sleeping.
Me: Well I am writing in this blog silly 😛

As far as I know we are heading for Sacramento, CA. Mind you I think it is still another 5-6 hours from here and its already 4:00. I guess we will see.

6:49pm
Closing in on Medford, OR I believe. We have had a good time driving through OR today. Adam decided it would be fun to start writing sings on a notebook bill gave him. Wrote stuff like: WE ARE FROM CANADA, HONK IF YOU LIKE OUR BUS (and yes, people did) and other such nonsense. But the fun of it came when we came upon 2 girls most likely around our age. Adam started it off by just holding random signs up, really nothing offensive. But for whatever reason they did not take it in good spirits. Mind you we keep throwing sings up for what seemed like 40 miles we were along side them. They backed off, or we pulled forward but we always met up again at some point and we were right there with a sign. I think they fingered us about 3 times all in all. Good times were had by all. Except maybe the girls in that car 😛 Ladies if by chance you copied down the URL on the back of the bus, and stumbled upon this blog. I would just like to say… A/S/L? If your interested email [email protected] and I will get you in touch with the jackass that was holding up the signs. His name is Adam and he likes sandwiches, minorities and dressing like a scene kid.

We just stopped off at some at some hole in the ground town (no offense) and got some more gas (le sigh) and went to the grocery store and picked up the fixins’ for sandwiches. Morgan cut up some tomatoes and I proceeded to make 8 fucking sandwiches on a bus, moving 120Km/h on the stupid freeway. My back is sooooo sore right now. More to come.

9:34pm
Ok, since that last stop we have successfully crossed into CALIFORNIA! We just passed through Weed, CA, filed up on gas and “fixed” our leaky cooler. We are now on our way to a town just outside Sacramento, CA, where we actually have a hotel booked and waiting for us!

We should be there around midnight or so. At which point Adam is going to shotgun a tallboy and buy a hooker.

This is now Adam writing, and I’m not entirely sure if I have much interesting to say. This trip so far has been fun, but definitely not the symphony of destruction I had originally planned. I know, it’s only the second day…. but this was supposed to be a total whirlwind. Real “end of the world” type shit. Granted, we had some bus problems which definitely changed our plans a ton. I had planned to have at minimum of one or two amazing stories per day, and the first day lived up to that and more. I don’t know what I’m going to have to do inn the next 2 hours. I won’t really have any interesting stories until I can mix it up at some local watering holes and meet some people I don’t know yet.

Take it easy, Internet.

2:15am
So here we are sitting in the hotel room in Williams, CA. Its now closing in on 2:30am and we have to be up in… 5 hours. Lame. Overall we got a lot of driving in today, which was really good. We are planning on pushing onto San Diego tomorrow morning, super early. Today was coming to a close really quiek and as you can see in the post above Adam was getting pretty worried that we wouldn’t have at least 1 awesome story in for the end of the day and boy did we get it. When we got in at 12:30, Me, Adam, Bill, Morgan, Ben and Matt decided to find a bar. When we found out that the only bar in this town was closed we headed for a gas station to buy some beers. On the way to that gas station we passes by a cop (yes this is foreshadowing) and didn’t really think much of it. After we bought our beer, we thought it would be a great idea to go shotgun the beers by this grain silo we passed. Not 2 minutes after stopping there the cop came by and had a little talk with us (stop shaking your head mom) it lead to nothing and the guy was super nice, however the BEST part of the whole thing is he totally didn’t think Matt was even close to 21. When Matt told the officer that he was, in fact 24. His reply… NO SHIT. Needless to say we LOL’D. Now we are just chilling in the room watching Ben shave his legs. Yes, you heard me.

Day 2 DONE!

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