Alright, It's Day 1 of our road trip across the Wild West in the CR-Z with our awesome dog, Murphy! Me and Hayley (not Hayley and I) love to drive, whether it is for a reason or no reason at all. So, when we were thinking of our next trip, we figured we just got a sweet hybrid 6-speed sports car... let's go drive the crap out of it! We thought about leaving Murph-dog at home or leaving him with Becky, but we thought he'd be fine in the car and he best dog ever, so why not just bring him along too! We loaded down the car with our pop-up Coleman tent (so we wouldn't have to waste time setting up and taking down the tent every day), two sleeping bags, blanket, pillows, camera gear, wi-fi card from Susan, netbook, atlas, general idea of what direction we wanted to drive, and water for our boy. That exceeded the allowable cargo weight for the CR-Z, seriously. You are only allowed 400lbs: Me, Hayley, and Murphy weigh 360 lbs, my camera backpack is 30 lbs, the tent is probably 10 lbs...that's it! Still, the CR-Z drives like a Cadillac, carves turns like a Japaneese car should, and gets 50 mpg. Off we go!
We left kinda early, not too bad, stopped and got breakfast and headed out west. We went out to Nashville and cut up through Kentucky to St. Louis. We tried not to take highways and stay on back roads as much as possible, but for this part of trip we didn't really care we were just trying to get out there fast. Murphy was getting used to his bachelorpad back there in the CR-Z!
He is the best dog to travel with, we would lay back there and sleep then he would come sit propped up on the center console with his head between our seats just enjoying the ride with us! We took turn driving and I roade back there with Murph for a little while and took a nap. It's amazing what will fit in such a tiny car! We eventually made it to Kansas and drove about half way across the state before we got to our first camping spot... the Wal-Mart parking lot. I'm pretty sure you can't leave from TN and spend 2 weeks driving around the country and come back to TN for any less money than it cost us. We are the masters of cheap, as already you know if you read the 2 month Europe trip part of this blog.
That's Day 1, come back and read about some the awesome stories that are coming for us as we headed across the country for no good reason with our dog!
He is the best dog to travel with, we would lay back there and sleep then he would come sit propped up on the center console with his head between our seats just enjoying the ride with us! We took turn driving and I roade back there with Murph for a little while and took a nap. It's amazing what will fit in such a tiny car! We eventually made it to Kansas and drove about half way across the state before we got to our first camping spot... the Wal-Mart parking lot. I'm pretty sure you can't leave from TN and spend 2 weeks driving around the country and come back to TN for any less money than it cost us. We are the masters of cheap, as already you know if you read the 2 month Europe trip part of this blog.
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