Beards are tough...

I am still somewhat bummed that i did use a Miley reference in my lasts blog's title. Oh well different day different blog, right? It's been a few days sincei  have posted anything and honestly cause not much happens when you are off your bike and sitting at yoru sisters house on the reg. I enjoy it though. It's been nice to hangout with her i just haven't gotten to do much, minus work at that bike shop a couple days and then run errands with my sister and her fiance Mike. Been a lot of fun but i am getting a bit bored.

One thing i have done the past few days is i got to see an old friend. My friend Anne and i did a summer program about 3 years ago and we haven't seen each other in 2 years. It was cool for sure. She is from Colorado Springs, Co and her boyfriend and her were driving thru where i am staying here in Denver the other day so we got to have lunch and hangout for a couple hours. It was great to get out of the house and catch up. I needed a break from sitting here and watching TV very much so.

The title of my blog is "Good News for People who Like Good News", i guess you are probably wondering where the good news is right? Well  i talked to Daniel the other night and he was in Rawlins, WY. He was 2.5 days away from Denver. I tell you this because that means i am going to be back on the road by Sunday for sure and maybe sooner. Also if we average 65 miles a day we realized we can finish the trip 2 weeks early, which would be so rad. I am a bit nevous about my knee though for sure. I rode yesterday. I did a six mile maximum output ride. It wasn't too bad honestly, but it was only 2 miles downhill and a 4 mile climb. I averaged about 13.1-13.5mph. The thing that worries me is that i can still feel my knee. I can feel right where it was hurt a few weeks ago, the only time i can feel it is on climbs though. My theory with this is that leaving my sisters place and Denver i am not really going to have many climbs. It's basically downhill from here to Denver then really downhill to Kansas. I am gonna push myself on this one cause i have dnoe what the doctor told me to do (even though he was a moron. What kind of doctor won't give you a rec. to an orthopedist when he can't tell you why your knee is getting inflamed?).

I have been doing well. I have been living here in Denver/Lakewood at my sister's place. It's gorgeous here but i am ready to go. If my knee doesn't work out then i don't know what i am going to do. I am gonna stay positive though. I think that i will be ok for the most part. Ibuprofen and ICE will be my new best friends. Throw in a lil icy hot and i will be golden for sure. I still have some really rough days, but i think that is to be expected. A few old friends who i haven't talked to in forever have been texting and calling me out of nowhere and just been really encouraging. It's been nice. Unexpected calls and texts are so rad. Especially from people who you haven't talked to in forever. I fell off the map this semester to a lot of people with being busy and the encouragement i am getting from those people is nuts. Thanks to everyone who is still following me even though i am not on my bike. It means the world to me and honestly it gets me thru the rough days.

Daniel should be here tomorrow. So ya, hopefully i will only have one more blog NOT on my bike. If all else fails and i can't make it all the to South Caronlina, my goal is to go to Joplin, MO and work there for a couple weeks with Tornado Relief. I never expected this trip to go how it has but honestly i wouldn't have it any other way. I am sad i am not on my bike (it's my escape, it's my "me" time, and it's just a time to be free), but i know that this is a journey i will never forget. Hardest thing i have ever done: emotionally, physically, and mentally. At the same time it is the most amazing thing i have ever done and if i could go back and change anything, i wouldn't.

I miss home, i miss my friends there more than they will ever know, but i will be home soon. I am goign to live where i am. The other day i was listening to my iPod and John Mayer's song "Stop this Train" came on and it made me super sad but then it made me realize i can't be sad about being out here.

(The part that bummed me out)
Stop this train, I wanna get off and go home again.
I can't take the speed it's moving in.
I know i can't, but honestly won't someone stop this train.

(this made me think about being a "grown up" when i get home)
So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.
So i play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

(This made me just realize i am where i am. live for today)
Don't stop this train, don't for a minute change the place you're in.
I don't think i can ever understand
we'll never stop this train.

I am here and living for each moment i am in. Love each of you and hope to hear from you all!
p.s. My beard is getting burly.

...always gonna be another mtn...

I feel somewhat guilty for having a Miely Cyrus refernce in the title to this blog but honestly it's quite fitting. I am in Denver where there is always another mtn... Especially when i am trying to get back to my sisters place from town... 3 mile hill at a 10% grade... it sucks, but at the same time it's some good training. the air is so thin here.

I decided yesterday to give my knee a lil test. Decided i was gonna do a three mile down hill and come on back up it. Honestly my knee felt pretty good the whole time down... why would it hurt? i barely had to pedal! I ended up goign to a bike shop here in Denver and sat and talked for quite a while. I was there for about an hour or two. Upon leaving i started the ascent, which at first wasn't bad. I had my headphones in and i was ready to conquer the hill. About half way up though i realized my bike wasn't shifting how it should. It was bouncing between gears, for those who don't know much about bikes, it's not good. I finally make it back to the top of the hill to my sisters place and start to work on my bike. I call Luke at my bike shop back home and he walks me thru a few things i can try and i fiddle and work on it for about 2 hours. it wouldn't work. I couldn't get it to shift right. i was so frustrated. I was honestly pissed. My head was yelling out why can't anything go right on this trip.

I am still working on my bike and my sister pulls into the drive way and she and i decided to go to yoga together. i was pissed about the bike but i was excited about time to relax and stretch out my body. I needed something like that. It was an hour and a half session i think. It was much need and the teacher was super cool too. It was a lot of fun to just kick it with my sister and relax. After Yoga though we really didn't do much. Just came home and ate some dinner. Which was good. I had some soup!

Today was kinda odd and random but not at all. ha. I started off the day eating (my favourite). While iw as eating lunch my sister's fiance invited me to go to his son's 4th grade awards ceremony... i accepted. i eman why not. i honestly didn't wanna mess with my bike so ya why not. It was a good time. I mean it was nice to run around with my future brother in law and go see my future nephew rock out a recorder ninja award. I don't know what that even means but it has ninja in it which makes it ok with me. It's like a math pirate award or something. On the way home after the award ceremony we went to kinkos and the store. It was nice. I decided to take my bike to the bike shop. I honestly couldn't afford it but it had to be done. nothign i could do would fix it. i mean i guess i could have... just didn't have the bike knowledge to figure it out.

So ya i end up at the bike shop and the guy there is super cool and he let's me use his tools. He and i looked at my bike and fixed everything i think... plus i got to clean my bike up and now Jolene is all pretty and spotless! The coolest thing though is he did everything for free, and we think my bike is fixed. He is having me come in a few days this week to work for him at the shop. I am super jacked about it. Tomorrow he is having me come in and put a few bikes together out of the box! So legit. Plus free lunch! woot woot. Dave at Full Service Bike Shop in Lakewood, Colorado knows his stuff. if you are around the area check it out.

Other than that i am goign on a ride tomorrow morning around 8 am which should be a lot of fun. I am a bit nervous about my knee but i think it will be ok. i will let you all know how the ride goes tomorrow or the next day. My biggest problem on the ride will be my cardio.. the air sucks here! Knee is feeling pretty good which is great news. It throbs sometimes but it hink that is mental... i don't know why it would.

Thanks again to anyone who reads this. You alls comments on here and texts and facebook posts help me more than you will know. Being this far away from home is super hard for me. I know i am out here though and this is where i am supposed to be. I am meeting people daily and it is a blast. It looks like i will be back on the road heading to south carolina sometime in the next 1.5-2 weeks! Daniel has made it to Jackson, Wyoming. He is doing well and we are both excited to get back on the road together!

the past 30 hours... what a ride!

Probably the longest 30 hours of my life but some of the best i have ever had. I had written about my train ride and man what a ride it was. i was on that thing for 30 hours. I had never been on a train before and i mean why not make my first experience a good one right? Trains are impossible to sleep on if you are taller than 3 ft, the food is ok but totally over-priced, but i will say that the scenery and experience is incredible!

We will start where my last blog left off. I ended up staying with Ashley and her roommate Kendra. They were sooo awesome. Ashley worked so kendra and i went to the store and got a bunch of stuff to make dinner. It was delicious! We had grilled tri tip, pasta salad, and grilled veggies... It was sooo good. After dinner i laid there pretty mindlessly, seeing how i had been up since 430 in the morning. Kendra kinda played on her computer while i flipped thru songs on my iPod in the floor. I needed the down time. After laying there for a bit ashley got home from work around like 930-945. She came in ready to go out adn iw as like blah. haha. Although i gave in and went out anyways thinking that i could sleep on the train (suprisingly difficult to do). We ended up at their favourite bar called like the golden bear i think. (bear is the california state animal and the bar is on the corner of 24th and K st... get it 24K gold?!) We had a good time though. I made fun of people the whole time, and by people i mean these meat headed dudes who were dressed up like macho man... too soon anyone?

We hit the hay pretty early saturday night, i was exhausted for sure. Also something cool is we rode our bikes to the bar... i had never done that before. Ashley woke me up about 845 sunday morning. I slept on her living room floor. it was awesome. She had the most comfortable blanket i had ever laid under. GLORIOUS! I get to the train station to kinda check in and get my bike put on the train and that was more of a hassle than i thought it would be.

I got there adn they told me to take my pedals off... well i didn't have a wrench. I asked everyone at the train station and not a single person was helpful. I called Ashley, the girl i stayed with, and she went to a loacl bike shop for me. it was sooo awesome. She found out if it was open, which it was. It's quite unheard of for a bike shop to be open on a sunday. I ended up booking it down to the bike shop. it was about 10 blocks away and i had 20 minutes to be back at the train station. Luckily i made it... with about 3 minutes to spare. ha.

I bored the train and find a seat. I had 2 seats to myself which was awesome. I loved it. Behind me was Hailey (she had 2 seats), across from her was her friend Bonnie (also had 2 seats), and i didn't meet hime right away but in front of bonnie and across from me was chris! We ended up sitting and talking for about 2 horus to start the train ride off. it was so rad. Such great people. We all had so much to say and we really just had fun. I don't know how much fun i woulda had if i hadn't have met them.

24 horus into the train ride all my friends got off. Chris got off at 3AM this morning, and Bonnie and Hailey got off at noon today. I was alone. It was awesome. I hade a lot of time to think and listen to my iPod which was great. Being away from home has been extremely difficult. I have had some extremely lonely days and i have had some really good days. I don't have many friends out here, which is expected when you are 3000 miles from home.

I got to Denver tonight and my sister and i went to Chipoltle and it was delicious. She bought me a great meal... i was starving. I hadn't eaten today except for a couple clementines and a cliff bar (train food isn't too great and extremely over-priced). So i was pretty hungry. But ya it's been awesome to get to hangout with my sister. She's rad. I am here for two weeks so if you are in Denver and wanna kick it... let me know! Also i am super stoked my friend Emily from MTSU is from just south of Denver so i i think at some point she and i will get to do something this week. I am going to give my knee a go here in a few days. It's been 14 days since i have really ridden so we will see what happens. should be an interesting time. Doc said 14days... so imma give it 16. haha.

what a few days... Adventures galore.

I have decided it's extremely hard to blog whilst on the road. I am no longer with Daniel and he has our computer. ha! Basically it's been a legit few days. My knee still isn't doing too great but i will get to that in a bit. A few nights ago i went on this adventure in Corvallis called the Mystery Ride Tour... it has nothing on the tour de fun (boro folowers... you know what's up). It is about a 7 mile bike ride thru the city of Corvallis where people deck their bikes in glow sticks and all that. It was a really god time. the only real bummer to the ride was that at one point there was about a 50 ft climb at a 2% grade... aka easy. Well my knee said no sir to that. which was super frustrating cause it had been doing soo soo well. I am not goingn to do anything on it for a while for sure. I am giving it it's precious lil time to rest. The Mystery ride was a good time for sure. It was pretty much our last hoo rah in Corvallis. I was pretty bummed to say bye to my friends there, but i think a couple of them are going to come to tennessee and i am going to try and go up there to Snowboard this winter. Keeping my fingers crossed for sure.

Also i had been loking for a place to stay in Sacramento, Ca for few days now and i had been quite unsuccessful... i decided to resort to couch surfing which turned out to work. I also didn't end up having to buy a train ticket fromm Oregon to Cali.My friend Ben Towne was heading to just north or Sacramento and he and i decided it was most economical to car pool. it was and it was a blast. we woke up this morning at 430 and got on the road. Man what a journey. 9 hours later we are on S Street in Sac town... and he was off to work at Woodleaf Young Life Camp all summer. What a stand up guy for sure. Real Pepsi, tons of pictures, and to top it off we agree on almost all music which isn't very common. But ya we get to Sac town and he just drops me off at this house where i didn't know the people but they have turned out to be super rad and i am staying here tonight and they are taking me to the train station in the morning. fun right?

This trip has been quite the adventure. My knee still hates me and an athletic trainer says he thinks it looks like something patellar syndrome or something like that... which isn't good but i have some time to rest it. Which i am going to do just that. I am going to attempt to ride out of Denver no matter what knee hurting or not. I figure since my sister lives there if i can't go further than 200 miles away then she can come get me. Who knows. I board a train in the morning around 1130 which wil be fun. i have never ridden a train before. They are packing my bike up in the morningto board as well. I am hoping to be able to blog a bit more once i get to Denver. We will see. Also though if you would like to keep me company at some point tomorrow or monday, i will be on the train for about 31 hours... my headphones broke and ya i will need company for sure. Love you guys so much.

Know that i am bummed i am not on my bike but i am completely ok where i am currently. Life has a way of taking you on the adventure it has for you rather than the one you planned. I have met some amazing people, seen amazing things, and i am only on week two of this trip. I am out here for at least a couple more weeks. Call or text me anytime. Check my facebook for pictures, as well as my flickr account (link at the top of my blog). Follow me on twitter as well. @Fletcher_knox

Days 4, 5, & 6.. and today. --- Kinda boring, kinda good.

As you can see my last blog was a few days ago and it consisted of me spending a morning at the doctor and me not getting to ride. I don't know if a lot has happened really since then but a whole bunch has at the same time. I should probably write everyday to help me remember things going on but i mean i don't have a computer. i just have to use one of the guys that i have met. haha. These people up here are really nice though.

Day 4, I mean Daniel left on day four. Me sitting at the house. I honestly was pretty bummed while he was getting ready and all that. Why wouldn't i be? I had put so much into this trip. He is meeting me in Denver, Co in 3 weeks. which should give my knee enough time to heal. I am keeping my fingers crossed. It's not up to me. i am taking care of it like i am supposed to so ya as far as i know i can ride in about a week and a half. I had a bunch of alone time that day though.

I was really sad and pissed and everything that day. As i sat down at a local coffe shop though i really started to think about why i came out here and what i am doing. What i kept asking myself was what good am i if i am constantly pissed that i am not going on my way with DKAL. As i sit there though a girl sits beside me and just starts talking. We go on to talk for a good hour or so. Then as i am leaving the coffee shop the girl at the counter stops and talks to me for like 20 minutes as well. We talked about life, God, music, and really just everything. I have decided that either way if i am on my bike or not i am out here for a reason just gotta make the best of it.

Day 5, honestly this was a really boring day but it's whatever. I hung out with the fellas of HQ, did nothing, and then a bunch of people got together and hung out. This night was probably the most i have missed home since leaving. minus being on the plane heading this way. People all came over, listened to music on the TV, had a hookah going, and just overall a really chill feel. It just reminded me of home so much. It was a tough night for me to have fun. I tried though. It's just harder sometimes that others.

Day 6, Yet another day of pretty much nothing. I have gone to a coffee shop almost every day here. it's been nice. I enjoy it. The coffee out here is nuts good. Like for reals... east coast doesn't have anything on that west coast cuppa joe. This day i went to a coffee shop with my friend Tristan. He is a hella cool dude. We honestly sat there for an hour. Mostly because i was eating and if you know me i eat forever. ha. But that's about it for yesterday. I went to dinner with my aunt and had Top 5 Pizza i hav ever had. It was called Woodstocks. So good. Also we watched all three matrix movies today. that was a great time. Although i think the only one worth anything is obviously the first one.

Today, i woke up and had some leftover lasagna from a couple nights ago and let's be honestly... it's always better a couple days old. Ha. Then i haven't done much of anything. I found out that a good friend of mine is going to be heading down to California from Washington and he and i are gonna road trip to sacramento... should be a good time. I don't have anything to do there but i will prolly get into something. i never know. I have nowhere to stay and i can't really do much about it... adventure here i come. I have never been to california... so that will be fun! As for meeting up with daniel, i have a train ticket for sunday and i will get to denver on monday... i am going to meet him there in a couple weeks.

Thanks to everyone who has been encouraging me. It's been a tough week. My knee is still hurting and i want it to get better but it's not on my timing and i realize that. All i can do is take care of it and live where i am. So for now i am making the best of my stay in Corvallis, Or.

Also random fact about oregon... all they drink is coffee and beer... they even have espresso beer... weird right!?

Days 2 & 3- interesting couple of days.

As i sit here and type this i am in a room with about 10 people, I met each of them within the last 36 hours. We have played disc golf twice, eaten pizza twice, and hung out constantly. Been a glorious time. Even met a new friend as i started this blog. It's been an interesting couple of days.

Since posting my last blog about my knee and the rides, a lot has happened. It's been on a DL for the most part and i have only told a couple of people, but i hurt my knee day 1 of the ride. It's been pretty bad. It takes a lot for me to admit being hurt but i spent all morning today at the hospital. Not fun honestly. I spent all night last night being frustrated with myself and all morning just being pissed at all the time i had spent on the trip and the thought it could be shut down for me, i was def bummed and still am a bit. The doctor told me that i couldn't have prevented it and i couldn't do anything to fix it. So that's the bummer.

I get to the doctor's office and every possibility was going thru my head. It was killing me. I go back and he does a few tests with moving my leg around, and then he kinda moves my other knee around and wow... It hurt really bad. I told him to stop at one point. ha. Then he sends me back to get x-rays. That was fun for sure. (hopefully you can read the sarcasm)!

The doctor sits me down at the end of everything and tells me not great news but not the worst news. I have to take 9-14 days off of riding. Everything in my knee is inflamed and am on a steroid of some sort. It hurts but imma make it. I have spent the past 24 hours really trying to figure out what i am going to do and tonight i kinda nailed it down. I am going to snag a train (since they have bike racks on them) to denver within the next week and a half, might even go multi city and spend a day somewhere else too). Plus if i go to Denver i can hangout with my sister and future brother in law for a week or so which would be hella rad.

Daniel is leaving in the morning and forging on with out me. He is gonna meet me in Denver where i will continue the journey after my knee heals up. (hoping it does, if not, Cortisone injections might be next on the list of things to do.) I have been super frustrated and i have been super sad with this whole thing but i have decided my plan isn't the best one so i am stickin it out and living it up.

Thanks for all your encouragement and texts and facebook messages. Leave comments if you want. This trip has already been the trip of a life time. Thanks also to Amy Chapman and her Husband John for letting up stay at their house and they cooked us an incredible dinner and to the people of HQ (janae, charlotte, and taylor included) for taking Dan and i Disc Golfing 2 days in a row.

Days 0 & 1 - Ups and Downs.

Yesterday was day 0. What a day. Leaving Knoxville yesterday morning was one of the hardest things i have done3 in so long. I mean it was hard. I was basically miserable all day. Once i got on the plane it got a bit easier but landing in Denver, well it was miserable again.(ups and downs... get it, like my emotions were up and down) Every 2 seconds i was thinkin i had made a mistake. There is still a part of me that thinks that, but i will talk about that later. So i get to Portland and i call Daniel and he says he is at baggage claim, he lied, he was at my gate waiting and i was so stoked to see him . It had been far too long. He and i are just chlilin at the airport throwing frisbee waiting on our shuttle and we met a lady named Amy. Amy talks to us for a bit and we finally get on the shuttle to go to portland she offered to have us over the next night, tonight, for a salmon bbq and a bed to stay in. We obviously said yes to that, but hey we were like let's see. sometimes stuff happens and things call thru. After getting to my aunts house we put our bikes together and all that then decided we had to eat. Carbs! Went and got pasta. had a really cool server too, Janae was her name. Kinda told her abotu what were were doing and we decided we would get a group of people to go for a bike ride after she got off of work. Daniel and i were so excited. Ended up falling thru but hey stuff happens. He and i went to bed at like 1030... so it was a good night.

Day 1, what an epic day. It was our first ride together. We decided we would leave by 1 today cause we had a few things to do beforehand. Woke up around 10... i did at least and ended up getting coffee with Janae and her friend Charlotte. Best dirty chai i have ever had in my life. No questions asked about that. SOOOO Good. She ended up showing us to the bike shop and how to get the the grocery store. We had no clue where we were going. it ws quite funny! So ya after all that we loaded down our bikes and hit the road. So abotu 5 miles in we started climbing a hill... we climbed for literally 7 miles at about a 7 percent grade. it was awful. the other side wasn't even that much of a downhill... it was totally bull. haha. Then after the short decent we find yet abnother climb waiting on the other side. I think total out of our 57 miles... 45 of those were climbing miles. Everytime we rounded a blind corner there was another climb waitiing for us. Which i will say every climb had a crapy downhill side. So hopefully tomorrow will be a good one! Took us 6.5 hours to go 57 miles... Keep in mind that we are riding into a headwind and to top it off it rained for 6 out of the 6.5 hours. We ended the day though getting into Newport, Or and having dinner with an amazing family. They are even letting us stay the night here in a bed. Feels so good. plus the hot shower after our ride... what a night! I forgot to mention about 3 inutes after getting into Newport, well, Daniels handlebars go boom and i turn around and he is on thte ground. He is ok, but it scared us both for sure.

Today though mentally that rain was demoralizng. I honestly have thought if i leave now i have enough money for a  plane ticket. I wouldn't leave this trip but today broke me quite a bit. I miss home, i miss people, and i really just struggled today. My knee isn't doign so great so if you can send a good vibe or prayer my way for my knees healing. I am not gonna back out of this trip. I might have my knee looked at tomorrow in Corballis... we will see how it is feeling. So ya, there is my day 1 and 0. Overall this trip has been epic thus far. I can't complain. I am falling asleep as i type this so i think i am going to go to bed. i hope you enjoy reading these. ia m not the best writer but i am really trying to make it interesting.

Yesterday sucked then got a lil bit better. Today was good then sucked. ha. (ups and downs??)]g'night to everyone. Encouraging tweets or text or FB messages are amazing and help me make it thru. Love you all!

..and let the good times roll...

Today i graduated. I am officially done with college and an MTSU graduate. It's a bit odd to say i am done with school, but i don't think it will really hit me until the fall when i don't have to go back to Murfreesboro, TN. It's been an amazingly great day. I had family and friends come in town for my Graduation and it was so good to be with people who really love me.

On another note i leave for Oregon in 3 days!  I am so ready to go... but not at all. My body is ready but honestly i have so many mixed emotions about leaving for 50 days. I want to do this so bad though. It's been in the works since July. It's gonna be nuts


At one point my riding partner is going to take kids to camp and i was a bit bummed at first (i thought i was going to have to ride on by myself) but i discovered i get to spend a week with one of my really amazing friends and her family for a week. Which i think during that week will be 4th of July which is such a great holiday! That's quite a ways in the future though.

I leave Murfreesboro tomorrow to go back to Knoxville, then i will have all day Monday in Knoxville to get ready for my trip doing things like packing and getting stuff together. I need some cycling shorts, i need to pay the rest of my bike off, and i have a bunch of other stuff also (i.e. chamois cream, knee brace, a new bike tire... i could go on and on honestly a bunch of little things) but it's whatever. i will get it done... I hope. My mind is everywhere so i really am just hoping i don't forget anything.

While blogging i am watching Ghost Adventures on Travel Channel and looking at cycling short reviews online. Woo hoo... fun times right?

9 DAYS!

Just got done playing basketball... i realized 2 things while playing...
1. I suck at basketball.
2. I would rather be on my bike than playing basketball.

I am sitting here at my place right now watching the Tour de Romandie, i feel like i am torturing myself. I don't have my bike yet i am just sitting here watching people on their bikes. The trip is on the horizon and it's more surreal now than it has ever been. I am going back to East Tennessee tomorrow to train this week and really try to ride everyday, rain or shine.

After my post maybe a week or so ago about why i am going on this trip i got some really good feedback from some of my friends who liked my reason for going. I have thought about it a bunch but there is also another reason i am going that most people don't know except a few close friends and i feel like it should be known why i am really going.

I want to love people. I want to show people what being a Christian is about. I don't want to judge anyone and i want to spend time with people and hear their stories. I want to build relationships with each individual i meet along the way and hopefully in some way, shape, or form impact people's lives. I feel like so many people are pushed away from the church by many different reasons, but the one i have heard the most of is that they have felt judged. Jesus didn't judge. He loved. No matter what. That's what i wanna do. I may not agree with things people do but i am in no place to judge them. So this is why i am going.

The trip is my right to passage but also i want to hopefully meet people and build friendships with people each day. I can't explain how excited i am about leaving.

While blogging: Obama's Speech, Tour de Romandie, and listened to my friends talk...