Fargo, North Dakota (Update)

I had no idea that a torn tire in the middle of the road could do so much damage. The collision center called today and informed me that they had replaced the engine on my car, but then found that some of the air conditioning parts and rear tire barrings need to be replaced. Apparently they were only able to know this after they replaced the engine. So as a result, I'll be in Fargo until Monday, the 30th.

Since I've been here everyone's been nice enough to entertain me, and I can't thank them enough. Wednesday I went to a local venue with Molly and Stephanie to watch Langhorne Slim a three piece folk rock band. The music was great.

Yesterday Cassie, Annuh, Janna, and I all drove to their home town of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, to float the river. It was the first time I floated a river. We rented tubes, tied them to a cooler filled with drinks and floated down a few miles. There were about a hundred people floating, most of them drunk. I suppose that's the point of floating the river. After, we went to Godfather's Pizza and enjoyed a large pizza with some cheese bread and some type of frosted cinnamon bread for dessert. I had a good time.


Don't know what I have planned for this weekend, but I don't plan on staying up too late. The past couple of days have been pretty hard on my body, staying up until 3am. But I can't blame anyone but myself for that. The locals consider Fargo to be a college town, so there's a lot of students doing what students do best. This experience is helping me to realize that I'm getting older and my body is just not capable of doing what it used to.

Also, I've decided on attending the Fullerton MBA program, and so I'll have to cut my trip short in order to make it to the mandatory orientation and workshop on July 29th. I'll also need enough time to deal with some of the administrative processes, like funding and finding housing in the Fullerton area. So I'll be skipping some cities, mostly the Midwestern places like Indianapolis, Cleveland and Columbus.

My goal is to attempt to make it to Boston and Washington D.C., the two cities that I have the most interest in visiting. If I can make it to Boston by July 10th, I think I'll be okay. But there's a lot of things that can happen between now and then. Who knows, I could hit another tire on the road.