atlas pt.3 (I-40)

I have not yet finished our first day of our trip to the west...
This blog update is becoming similar to our actual trip... too long!! I have to hurry up to get to the next state. Anyway, I shot about 150 pictures during the trip, but they turned out to be all the same. Is it because the landscape became flat and started look all the same? Or is it just because it was pretty difficult to come up with interesting view points from where I was buckled down in the passenger seat?

オークラホマシティを通り過ぎると急に遠くに方に雨雲らしき怪しい雲が出現。雨が降るかな降るかなっと思いつつ、でもその雨雲にいっこうに辿り着く事ができない。ただいつも遠くの方にその雨雲はいて、その雲からシャワーのように降っている雨だけがはっきりを見える。なんだか花壇にジョーロで水をやってるのを観察しているような蟻のような気持ちになってきた。私はきっと空気が良くて広大な大地のなかにいる蟻なのかも。




Texas Border at 7:00pm. It was rainning here that I almost miss the border sign...
それにしてもOklahomaは長かったな。。。

From the Texas Border, we drove a little bit longer. We didn't mean to drive so much the first day... it was just that we couldn't find anywhere to stay for the night until we got to Amarillo, TX. We checked into the hotel at 9:30pm. We had gone 902 miles... お疲れさま。


Day 1: Dickson, TN - Amarillo, TX ( テネシー、ディクソンからテキサス、アマリロまで約902 miles)

atlas pt.2 (I-40)

Day 1 continued...

I cannot wait... I was going to wait until tomorrow to continue my story. But I JUST CANNOT WAIT!! I am so hooked on this blog thing and there are so many things that I feel like I want to tell... so here I am, but where was I? Right, Arkansas.
Arkansasの風景はTennesseeとそんなに変化がないのでstate borderの表札がなかったら州が変わったことも判らないかも。でもそれは日本でも同じ事か？東京都近辺しか思いつかないけど、日本の県境も川を節目に区切られてる事が多くあるのかも。こんなとき地図が無性に見たくなる。でも私はこの州境に何を期待してたんだろう？国境を越えた訳でもないのにと思いながらも、やっぱり１州でもクリアしたことに嬉しくなる。
Arkansas was much flatter than Tenessee and the roads were getting rough. It was much harder for me to keep my diary in the running truck because of the rough roads. So I looked out of the window, I began to see a color of yellow in the field...


We passed through Little Rock at 11:55am. It seemed to me that Little Rock was located in a hilly area of the state. I saw so many houses on the hills and we were surrounded by ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS!!


Oklahoma Border at 2:00pm. It is 178miles to Oklahoma City...
（もうすでにだけど）あぁぁぁぁ〜遠すぎる！！



passing through Oklahoma City at 5:00pm, Memphisみたいだけど...
オークラホマ シティです。

atlas pt.1 (I-40)

here we are back again...

so finally I am a blogger!! I wanted to starting my own blog for a long time, but you know how things go. Starting something new requires a big chunk of time and energy, but I will try to continue...

so I guess you are wondering where is Shannon and Shie now??
We left Tokyo about 2 months ago to come back to America. We were staying at Shannon's mums for a while to planning our next move and we left there on June 12th to hit the road again.


Day 1
初日ってこともあってこの日は珍しく朝５時３０頃起床。最近随分怠けた生活をしていたせいか早朝を久しぶりにみた。やっぱり朝って気持ちが良いな。日中の熱い初夏光線しか体験してなかった私には朝霧が新鮮でたまらない。それとは反してムーディなシャノン。これからはじまるあの過酷なLong RoadTripのことで憂鬱気味になってるみたい。アメリカ横断1回目の時は全てが初めての経験で初めての風景だったから新鮮な気持ちで満ちあふれていたけど、今回のこの横断は私たちの5回目になる。でも今回の横断は違うのです。私の心中は観念的に前回と相違して希望と不安でいっぱいなのです。新しい生活が始まるのです。そして私たちは6:40am に出発しました。
もちろんWilliam も一緒です


crossing Tennessee River...

passing through Memphis at 9:11am.


Memphisに隣接してMississippi Riverが流れてます。
Mississippi Riverを渡るとそこはArkansas...そしてめざせLittle Rock!!