Our Adventure Begins...

Humble Readers-

This is the first posting of our adventure blog so I suppose I small recap is in order of the events of the past few days.  4 days ago (Wednesday) 3 intrepid heroes finally embarked upon our great journey Westward.  Tanner and I (Jed) packed up the car and left Savannah at 9 AM for a fairly uneventful drive north to Atlanta to gather the 3rd member of our wolfpack.  Upon retrieving Christopher and a quick stop at Jason's Deli our journey began in earnest.  The Coolio gem "Fantastic Voyage" set the tone for what would soon become an awesome trip.  We planned on driving the whole trip in one shot so we didn't make any planned stops however as we neared Memphis it was getting late and we had yet to eat dinner so we decided when in Memphis do as the Romans do and eat high quality barbecue so we stopped and went to Rendezvous, a barbecue joint located down a back alley that Man vs. Food said had some of the best ribs in the world..... They were right.  The ribs were the stone cold nut. Easily the best dry-rub ribs I've ever eaten and both Chris and Tanner will agree with me on that.  The pulled pork was also great so overall a thoroughly enjoyable experience and one I would recommend to anyone else in the Memphis area.  After dinner we were keen to get back on the road but before we could leave Memphis we had to stop by the site of MLK's assassination. It was a little motel right off of downtown and since it was only 2 days after MLK day there was a wreath hanging from the corner where he was shot.  It was kind of cool to see in a weird way. 

After Memphis we hoofed it pretty hard through the night. I took the brunt of the night driving and thanks to copious amounts of Full Throttle I managed to not kill us all by falling asleep at the wheel though to be honest I don't remember too much of the drive.  Arkansas is no peach during the day time but it is roughly 36 times less interesting in he middle of the night. Same for Oklahoma.  How people live in those wastelands of nothing I'll never know but unless you are super into watching grass grow I'd say avoid them. Anyway, as the Sun began to rise I began to crash from all the terrible energy drinks coursing through my veins. Fortunately, Tanner took over right before Amarillo and saved us all from a treacherous car crash. The rest of Texas is uneventful except to say that it is outrageously flat....like white girl ass flat. New Mexico was more interesting. It was like driving into a 1940's TV.  The whole world was sepia.  Everything. There were also some lovely rocks. Arizona was much the same except that eventually the hills had trees on them.  The rest of the trip went by rather quickly and soon we were pulling into the land of hope and dreams and America: Las Vegas Nevada.  I think that's enough to tell from my end for now so it is here that I will leave you.