The Trip Continues: Kansas City, MO and Columbus, OH

Quite a few days these have been.

We arrived in Missouri three days ago, reentering the murky and humid states I was oh-so-familiar with when I lived in Connecticut years ago. Although the room we had was small, at least the air conditioner worked.

We woke up, unfortunately, to this:

(Excuse the awkward aspect ratio, I don't take video often on my android phone)

I lucked out since there was an overhang near the car. We ended up moving the car there to pack up to avoid the rain since I couldn't find our umbrellas. The rain perpetuated itself for the next few hours, eventually stopping some time before our gas break.

What remained of the bags protecting my bike.

We arrived at Columbus two days ago and hung out with my cousins for the rest of the night. Since then it's been a lot of driving around doing maintenance type of work--oil change the car, figure out clothing for the wedding, find the food we need for the rest of the ride home. Kelly's wedding is today, so we'll be out with family all afternoon and night. Colleen's friend Khanh recommended a place called Thurman's, so we're trying to hit up the food there as well. We leave tomorrow morning for our last stretch of the drive--to Oakdale, Connecticut to my parents for my mother's birthday. Then it's a train ride back to Manhattan for Colleen to get back to work and for me to get cozy for some interviews lined up. Until then!

Selenium 2.0

Selenium 2.0 is out. It features everything I'd probably want for a web app testing solution. Check out the update here.

I'll post an update on the travels in a bit. I need to get my oil changed (almost 2000 miles over, whoops), and find a shirt to wear for the wedding tomorrow. It's going to be 90 degrees and at least 60% humid--in other words, 'uncomfortable.'

Alright, readers, expect at least one more update tonight, either about more rubying, learning about testing, or a fancy travel update.

Days 2 - 4: Salt Lake City, UT and Boulder, CO

Driving has been exhausting so far! Today is our "day off" from driving, so it'll be nice to relax and check out what Boulder has to offer.

Coming from San Jose, the trip to Salt Lake City took about 12 hours. The drive wasn't bad at all until we got to Utah, when all of a sudden we got caught in a salt storm (yes, a salt storm). It blew over after about a minute or two, but caught both of us completely off guard.

The stay at Salt Lake City was nice, considering all we really did was get there, shower, and sleep.

The drive to Boulder was much shorter; we left at 7 in the morning and got to Boulder around 3 in the afternoon. I guess we didn't have to stop at Boulder, but the idea was to stay somewhere a bit more 'college'-y. We walked around to find dinner yesterday and ran into offices for Google and Bing, which was a bit unexpected. Finally ended up at Walnut Brewery (one of the only places open) for beers and food, and enjoyed the sounds of fireworks from our hotel room.

It was nice to sleep in today! I meant to take the bike out and do some local biking around, but sleep just felt... nicer.

Off to Kansas City tomorrow! Will likely update again once I get there. In the meantime, I signed up for softwaretestingclub.com, so I could learn more about testing. My profile should be acceptable by sometime tomorrow, but hopefully tonight!