State #4 Pennsylvania

Now on the 80. We don't have to turn again until sacramento!
Purchased our first tank of gas. $99!
Listening to: the duke and the dutchess
Unfortunately I can't access my map with all the placemarkers, but I think we will survive.

state #3 new jersey!

Currently listening to: bonnie prince billy, ease down the road

Pre-moving day party

tonight
the local
138 ludlow
6 pm


im about 98% packed thanks to mark.

any more podcast suggestions?

Moving day! (revised again)

We are busy preparing for our trip...trying to fill our ipods with a wide variety of listening material. Mark just picked up some audiobooks from the library (3 hours of beginning german lessons and 9 hours of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise). some comedy cds? podcasts? any suggestions?

Friday September 12th: Moving day pre party (location TBA)

Saturday September 13th: Moving day (pick up truck, load up cate's stuff in ny, drive to new haven, pack up mark's stuff, one last pepe's pie)

Sunday September 14: leave new haven, overnight somewhere in ohio

Monday September 15: overnight in iowa city, ia (with brett/tim/jack)

Tuesday September 16: drive as far as possible

Wednesday September 17: celebrate jim's birthday with him in his hometown of Fallon, NV at "the greatest bar in the universe, which is this old combination saloon and Basque restaurant."

Thursday September 18: arrive in santa cruz

here is our tentative route
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i did some searching on chowhound for suggestions along I80. doubt we will stop at more than one or two of these places, but at least we will know where to find the best italian in cozad, ne (bella italia, run by an egyptian ex-new yorker who fell in love with a woman from nebraska).


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and one more

santa cruz, ca






but thats it. the list is closed. mark has now officially submitted all of his applications. now we wait until march.

The list (updated)

This is the final list of schools Mark wil be applying to:

Ann Arbor, MI
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Berkeley, CA
Chicago, IL
Minneapolis, MN
Nashville, TN
New Haven, CT
New York, NY

This week's favorite is Austin. Ive been there a couple times for SXSW and had a blast. I imagine its a little different at other times of the year, but it seems like a pretty rad place. Some of the pros for Austin (illustrated by emily's amazing photographs from SXSW 2005 and 2006):

Delicious food, including Amy's Ice Cream (mmmm....guinness ice cream)


Live Music Capital of the WORLD!


bike friendly (they dont all have horns)


affordable housing (all this for $100 a night!)


even if the toilets are sometimes possessed


All of this, of course, is subject to change.

The List

Subject to change:

Ann Arbor, MI
Atlanta, GA
Berkeley, CA
Charlottesville, VA
Chicago, IL
Iowa City, IA
Madison, WI
Minneapolis, MN
Nashville, TN
New Haven, CT
New York, NY
Washington, DC

Today's frontrunner is Nashville, home of Vanderbilt University and apartments promising "guitar shaped poo".