Day Three: Tennessee to Maryland

Day three: Knoxville, TN to Stevensville, MD


Little did I know that I wouldn't get much sleep in Knoxville that night.  I was in the hotel room by 10pm and in bed by midnight, but for some odd reason I woke up at three in the morning and took a shower.  After noticing what time it really was I had to lay down and try to get a little bit more sleep..  My mind was racing all night at the thought of what an amazing trip I had accomplished, and that I was so far from my family.

Once again I woke up 15 minutes before 5am and began to get my car packed up and ready for the final push into my new home state.  I made a crappy cup of hotel coffee and checked out for the morning, all followed by a small McDonald's breakfast.

Goodbye Tennessee, and hello Virginia!

Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee down.... Virginia, District of Columbia, and Maryland to go!

From the first moment when I crossed the Virginia border I noticed that the speeding cars slowed back down and were obeying the law almost the entire way!  A good thing too because I saw more highway patrol cars in Virginia than I had seen in any other state except Arizona.  The Virginia highway patrol is great at hiding behind bushes, trees, mountains, signs... pretty much anything they can find to catch the speeder's.  It was quite the entertaining game to figure out where they were hiding.  

I know that for some people this is still a very sore subject, but I saw more Confederate flag's flying in Virginia than I had seen in my entire life up till now.  I mean really...  ya'll lost the war, get over it already!  

Heading into Arlington and Washington D.C. by freeway was the worst idea ever.. I might have gotten to Stevensville faster if I had gone through Richmond!  I was stopped on the Arlington/DC freeway 5 times and it wasn't even rush hour.  People in Phoenix complain that their freeways are horrible, but in all honesty the freeways out here don't even compare.

I arrived at my new home in Stevensville Maryland at 2pm on Monday morning after a 32 hours and 3 days of driving.

Now begins a new direction of my life, a new start, and an amazing new job!  I know that these past 3 blogs have been off topic from the cake series, but rest assured that the cake blogs will resume tomorrow!

Thank you for your patience and good wishes

I hope that you enjoy my new, more elegant cakes!

Aaron J. Curiel