and so it begins..

Hey everyone, so Elijah and I decided that it would be a good idea to start a blog for our upcoming road trip across America. We have some worried moms, curious relatives, and jealous friends, and so hopefully this will be good for everyone. Plus, we don't want to have to tell the same stories over and over again until we die, so this way everyone can read about them at once. Feel free to leave comments, text us, facebook us, or call us. We'll have our phones with us, unless we're in the middle of the woods, or getting eaten by a bear, or if we're lucky, a moose (jk mom.. promise.)

Well we are leaving first thing in the morning and heading to Chicago to stay with a family friend of Elijah's, and we are excited for a free place to stay, a delicious meal (I've heard she's an excellent cook), and the first leg of the trip out west to be done. We will update as much as we can, at least as much as we have cell reception, and tell you about our adventures. Hopefully Elijah will help out with the blog so that I am not entirely in charge of taking pictures, shooting video, AND blogging. you will easily be able to recognize his posts from mine, since his will probably all be about whatever birds he saw that day.

well...here goes nothing!
talk to you all soon,
Laura