Friday, June 12, 2009

Cleaning Out




A great meal is all about the preparation. With a good meal goes a fine wine.

The MisAdventure (I'm thinking that we need to copyright that) begins with the preparation, sadly though there is no fine wine, instead there are boxes a plenty.

For some reason my pack rattery is extreme in it's strangeness. I keep boxes. Boxes for everything and anything I get. Boxes are one thing, but I keep the packing material as well. If you ever need styrofoam, packing cardboard or bubble wrap you know where to come. Actually, forget the bubble wrap, that's all popped and of no use to anyone, unless of course you just want a tattered plastic sheet (which incidentally is not red and does not have the words "Tension Sheet" emblazoned upon it in large white lettering)

I struggled and struggled with choosing which of these boxes I could keep and which could be thrown away. It was a major challenge. Amazingly, all of these fit in a single closet. I think that it was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside.

Luckily for me I has some assistance in the sorting of what to keep and what to throw. Decisions were well thought out and final choices were made. The boxes and various packing contents were put into piles for keeping or discarding during a sad lonely trek to the dumpster (skip) .

As you can see, the easily identifiable piles are clearly marked, the packing materials are nicely bagged and the boxes themselves either placed within another to provide the absolute fewest trips to the disposal receptacle.
Finally things were disposed of in the correct manner with just a couple of boxes kept aside to pack fragile and smaller items.
Another step forward.

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Communication Plans.....DONE

OK.....I think we have reached all the communication points we can before actually hitting the road. Just to catch everyone up....below is all the info on how to follow us or see what we are up to!

Of course....you already have this blog: http://geekboyandnuurdygirl.blogspot.com/

Google Map of our route:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108281692532045770365.00046a8b7b8d600c725d4&z=3

Twitter:
Nuurdygirl

Thanks for all of the great suggestions of scavenger items! Keep em coming!

While all of this contact and "follow us" info is being put up under the guise of keeping in touch and making it fun....I am going to let you in on a little secret: I am doing this so that if the car dies in the middle of nowhere....one of you will know where to send to tow truck. :-)

SMOOCHES!
Nuurdygirl

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Counting Down The Days

We know how hard it can be to keep track of time. Everyone has a hectic schedule. I don't know what day of the week that it is most of the time.

Worry no more!

I have added a countdown clock on the top right of the blog. It's a nice easy way to find out just when those Geekboy and Nuurdygirl MisAdventures are going to begin.

~GB

The Preparations Continue

Well......it almost feels like being prepared.

There is a map. The map includes directions as well as marks for hotel stops. Hotel reservations are even made. However......still waiting to figure out the scavenger hunt items and get the "entertainment plan" together.

There have been some great suggestions thus far:

1. Note and take pictures of towns with colors in the name (Redmond, Brownsville, etc) - courtesy of Jawbreaker
2. Note and take pictures at town signs where the first letter of the towns could be made into other words - also courtesy of Jawbreaker
3. See if we can find and try the Starbucks in each stop - courtesy of Bug
4. Copy all possible episodes of Ashes to Ashes to the Zune for watching along the way - courtesy of Nuurdygirl with the assistance of Geekboy
5. Get a short video of us doing the Brotime dance in each state - courtesy of Geekboy (you just have to see it to believe it)

But something tells me that there is going to be so much more time to fill. I can just feel the boredom from Nebraska setting in already.

There is an odd combination of excitement and worry going along with this trip. By far.....there is more excitement than anything else; however, I can't help but worry that we are trying to do too much in the time we have. Are my directions correct? Will the car be ok? Will we drive each other crazy by the time we get home?

Ok....fingers crossed.......no biting heads off by the time we reach Chicago. :-)

~Nuurdygirl

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

The MisAdventures Begin!

Today marks the day that the MisAdventures begin.....or at least seem official enough to be planned. Planned to begin.

The creation of this blog marks the official release of MisAdventures of Geekboy and Nuurdygirl by distributing the information to the masses. And by masses I mean 6 family members.

At this point.....a blog is created, a map is started but not yet finished, and there are 2 hotel reservations made, for the inaugural Geekboy and Nuurdygirl roadtrip. We are full of grand plans to update along the road, Twitter along the way, geotag photos, and complete some sort of scavenger hunt along this trip. If any of those 6 family members are reading this.....they are all laughing because they KNOW that we two as slackers will be lucky enough to make it to the car and keep gas in it!

Well......welcome to the start of the journey! Happy landing with us!