with my car keys on my knee i’m a-goin’ ’cross the country up to washington, dc The fog rolled in the day i left the sun shone through the sky the cars so slow, i sped to death susanna don’t you cry Oh, susanna! now don’t you cry for me for i’m driving up the 85, to washington, dc ’Round richmond does the highway …

The fog parted briefly for me to take a few pictures of the sunrise through the trees. I actually saw the sun pop up, but the window of opportunity was too short to get a decent picture. This was taken on I-85, just inside Virginia.

We’re on the last stretch of the trip! Today I’m going from Durham, NC up I-85 and 95 to Washington, DC. I’m leaving at 6 AM to avoid the traffic and also get in early enough to take care of moving things in. So the road is entirely covered in fog. Here it wasn’t so thick, but in other places I couldn’t see more than …

road trips there are not forgotten look away! look away! look away, dixie land In dixie land where i did travel on through memphis, on through nashville look away! look away! look away, dixie land I’m driving down i-40 hooray! hooray! through giant clouds and buffet crowds i’ll make my way through dixie my way, my …

North Carolina saw me driving through the worst rainstorm I’ve ever been through. It started fairly reasonably, with a small trickle, which is when I took this picture. Pretty soon, though, it was pouring so fast that the windshield wipers couldn’t even keep the windshield clear. Visibility dropped to at most 20 yards …

Welcome to North Carolina! I’m not sure why, but I took the picture of the road sign with my phone. (I didn’t even remember taking it—I thought I missed it!) Then I took another picture of the sign at the visitor center a few miles in. I also took some pictures of the Appalachians. They made for some really nice …

The rolling hills of Kentucky. These were really hard for me to capture, because the hills looked big and wavy to my eyes, but the pictures made them look small and flat. But they are really green. This was taken on I-75 between Lexington and Knoxville.

One cow… Lots of cows! Still in Kentucky, near Lexington.

A giant tree in Kentucky.

A grasshopper, hanging out on the sidewalk, in Tom Lee Park in Memphis. I’ve seen all sorts of different bugs on this trip. Most on the ground. Some flying. Into my windshield. Those ones were mostly smashed beyond recognition, but there was one winged insect that managed to get itself lodged between the hood and the …