10. Truck drivers who hold the door for you at every gas station even when you look like shit.
9. Banjo on the radio in West Virginia.
8. Finding out all your long lost Polish relatives like to drink beer and dance as much as you do. (Even had souvenir beer cozies at Grandma's 90th birthday party!)
7. Gas is cheaper in every state between here and there.
6. Crossing water, water, water. (New, Gauley, and Nolichucky rivers; Lake Erie, and Lake Chataqua)
5. Enjoying the flashbacks brought on by the orange florescent in the tunnels through VA and WV.
4. Admiring my cousin's toe ring as she slept with her foot out the window.
3. Coming through the oldest mountain range in the world...and knowing it's your home.
2. Round trip 19 hours with the windows down and the radio way too loud.
1. "Taking life like a big 'ol ri-de..." ---America
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