We averaged about 10 hours of or 600 miles of driving a day. We became good at guestimating distanced by time and time by place. I would say, "two hundred miles 'til seven." My sister would respond, "twenty minutes before Nashville." i joked that next time she calls and asks how I am doing that instead of saying, 'just chilling' I would say 'just moving at .0000001 mph' to indicate my lounging state. I know, it is not that funny but you have to understand that it was a long trip.
Here are some highlights and realizations... The United States is freaking huge and vastly empty country! I could safely state that there is more cows than people in the United States and unfortunately some of those cows have greener pastures than the impoverished that live in the rural and less developed portions of the country.
The American Southwest is a desert and without proper water management it could spell a environmental disaster to the growing population.
Southern Bells are damn hot with their cute foreign, southern, accents. I was spellbound not by what they said just how it sounds. When I internalized their words I didn't hear English but the sweet breeze of and echoes of the words, the lakes, and mountains of the south. I had to translate the soft sounds of the south to the harsh sounding English meaning in the similar fashion that I internally translate any of the romance dialects such as Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish to English.
Home are incredibly cheap just about anywhere outside California, and in particularly Silicon Valley. You can buy a new two story home in North Carolina for $200,000 which is barely your twenty percent if you are planning to buy a much smaller home in Palo Alto. I am starting to think that I should outsource my existence out this state of mind.
Recommendations... Take plenty of drinking water. We had a 12 pakc of geterade and a 24 pack of water. We finished this in by day four. Lucky for us Wal-Marts litter the American landscape. Bring your own music of you will listen to country music for 2,000 miles.