I have officially made it to Michigan. I am still sad about leaving the south. I have a strong feeling I’ll be back there for good one day. I still have mixed feelings about Michigan. I am trying to be open minded. It’s more of the “cold” factor that I turn my head to. People talk pretty highly about Michigan, so there must be something I’ll like here. I’ll only be here for about six months so I better make the best of it.
Wednesday afternoon we started to load the U-haul. It took us about four hours to carry things down three flights of stairs. I thought it’d be cool to see how many calories I burned while loading the truck. Just in the first twenty minutes I burned 189 calories. Carrying things up and down the stairs with extra weight in your hands really boost that heart rate! After four hours of loading (with a couple breaks) I burnt 900 calories. That made up for all the lack of exercise I did last week.
We left Wednesday night. Our trip was long. We made a little detour to Chicago to take care of a couple things. My friend drove the U-haul and I followed behind him. He could only go 65 miles an hour which made the trip take forever. We had a couple “only in the movies” incidents that made the trip all worth it. Like dragging “dead bodies” into the woods kind of incidents…more about that later.
Around two am we checked into a hotel to get some sleep and recharge for the drive the next day.
I woke myself up with some hotel coffee, a couple of hard boiled eggs I brought with me and some Vega One savi seeds. To hold me over until lunch, I had a couple freezer dried fruit packets. I bought these at Whole Foods before the trip. The apple ones are good but the tangerines would be better on a salad or paired with something else.
For lunch we stopped at Wendy’s. They have a really good berry almond chicken salad. I ordered my chicken on the side and gave it to Grumples. (I am pescetarian) This is forever by my go to salad if I have to eat fast food. It was really good!
Traveling is so boring. Especially when you are the only one in the car. I bought a couple books on CD to keep me entertained. How nerdy is that?
Around five we stopped to get gas. I was getting pretty hungry at this point so I grabbed an apple and a fiber bar. I know those are not the best for clean eating, but sometimes you have to make do with little options. I keep organic lemon wipes in my car. I used those to wash the apple. Never eat unwashed gas station fruit.
Around with we finally made it to Chicago. We got stuck in traffic and it took us an hour to get downtown. After doing a couple things int he city we headed to Bolingbrook IL to stay with our friends. I was so tired that I had a Vega One protein bar, a bowl of savi seeds and passed out.
The next morning I had some coffee, a Vega one bar, and puffed kamut for breakfast. I was ready to get the trip over with. We took off around 10 am.
For lunch, we stopped at Jimmy Johns. I LOVE Jimmy Johns. I ordered the vegetarian sandwich on wheat with no mayo and extra peppers.
The sandwich was so filling that I couldn’t finish. I saved the other half to eat on the road.
We got to Detroit around 5 pm and immediately started to unload the truck and bring everything into the apartment. Again our apartment was on the third floor. I was drained. Now that the internet guy has cooked up our cables I can catch up on some blogging.
Now, who is going to help me move everything out in six months?…
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