Road Trip

Chapter 1: Cali Here We Come

* Esme's POV *

It'd been a week since school had ended. My friend Farrah and I had been planning a road trip to California for a year now and it's finally happening. We packed the last of our bags into the trunk and made sure we had enough food and drinks in the cooler. The ride from Massachusets to California is about 45 hours so we were going to have to keep switching off who was driving. It took a while before my mom gave me the OK to go on this trip. I had only just turned 17 which means I hadn't even had my license for a year, but my friend Farrah was 18 which made my mom a little more comfortable with it.

We left my house at 4:00 AM. We wanted to start our trip as early as possible because the earlier we start, the earlier we get there. I pulled out of my driveway while Farrah plugged in her phone and started playing music. She would probably fall asleep on me in an hour or so, so I made sure I put the GPS volume on high because she can't give me directions if she's sleeping!

I stopped for gas and filled my tank because it was on empty. That would get me no where.....

Just when we were exiting Massachusetts, I looked over at Farrah and just as I expected, she was asleep! I figured I would let her sleep now, better then her sleeping when it's her turn to drive!

We didn't plan too well for our sleeping arrangements or where we were going each day. We figured we had a car and that could be used as a free hotel, and it doesn't matter if we don't know where we're going, we love to explore different places. 

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It was about 8:30 now, we hadn't hit much traffic. We were going through New York and Farrah woke up so once we got back onto the highway, we stopped at a rest stop to go to the bathroom and switch drivers. 

I fell asleep so fast, I felt bad for Farrah but I think we both just needed those extra few hours of sleep and then we would be awake for the rest of the day. 

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It was 12:15 so we decided to pull into another rest stop to eat some food we had packed. We sat at one of the picnic tables they had outside. We packed food so that we wouldnt have to keep making long stops but neither of us realized how annoying driving could be. 

I ate a turkey sandwich with baked cheddar ruffles and an arizona. Farrah ate a ham sandwich with little cookies and an arizona. Arizona's were our favorite drinks! Infact, our cooler was practically full of cans of arizona. 

Once we finished up our food we got back onto the road.