Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Day 2, Gainesville to Dallas, 1/24/12

So after approx 5 hours of sleep, I woke up around 8:30am. Had a fancy breakfast at BK with my brother, where he shared some of his roommate horror stories with me (with video- one of which would be well suited for a nasty website), then did a quick tour of University of Florida campus. Made me wonder why I didn't go out of town for college... looks like a fun place to study. So I finally hit the road for Dallas at 11:00am, two hours behind schedule. I don't really know what I was thinking, or how I figured that it would be a good idea to drive 15 hours, over 1000 miles, in one day, but i did.
As i mentioned in Day 1 post, I had gotten a lot done that day. One of those things was to stop by the Vet's office and pick up some doggie tranquilizer. I wasn't sure how it would work out, but I knew that rex would probably go crazy trapped in a car for 15+ hours, so I did us both the favor and got these to try it out. It was actually pretty funny at first, too bad I didn't get it on video, he was all woozy and stumbling around. I kinda felt bad about it, but it worked out really well overall, so I don't regret it. I don't plan on giving it to him again, but if for whatever reason I end up having to drive an extremely long time again, I would.


So my trip took me through 5 states on day 2; Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. I entered Texas at approx. midnight eastern time.


I had been very fortunate to encounter very little, light rain on most my journey, but as soon as I hit Dallas there was a downpour and it was freezing cold! not cool!



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