Texas here I came...

Finally I am here. Where is here? Here is Texas. That's right, Texas just got a little more awesome. I made the beautiful drive from Minnesota to Texas with very few almost dieing experiences. Of course I may have been exaggerating on the lovelyness of the drive. I don't know if you've ever made the drive from MN to TX but let me tell you it's not the most scenic trip. Growing up in Minnesota I have been spoiled by lush green forests, open blue waters, and countless animals frolicing in front of my bumper. The trip to Texas has none of those...although I did hit a possum. It was already dead though. Iowa can pretty much be described as a giant corn field. There are a few trees around farm houses, but mostly it's just corn. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy corn now and then. I like it on a cob, in the form of a chip or shell, never creamed, but you know, I enjoy it. That being said...it's not much to look at. At one point I thought i saw a hill, but really it just turned out to be a pile of corn. I'm sure to some people corn is very fun to look at, but to me it just looks like a setting for a horror movie. So Iowa has it's troubles, but it doesn't come without a little bit of charm. The northern part of Iowa looks similar to southern MN, and there was a point where I went over some sort of river which provided a nice contrast of green in the fields of yellow. These facts make Iowa the thirdmost scenic state on the trip. The first being Minnesota, and the last being Kansas. Norther Texas and Oklahoma aren't all that beautiful, but Kansas's state motto really should be, "Thanks for driving through Kansas." Because I'm pretty sure nobody stops there. Knowing this fact Kansas decided to build a toll road in order to make some profit. It cost me 11 dollars extra to drive through Kansas. Now 11 dollars isn't a large amount of money, but I got to drive through Minnesota for free, paying to drive through Kansas is like having my own chef at home, but going out to McDonald's every night. Kansas is lucky because at 12 dollars I might of tried to figure out a way around the state.
The nice thing, I suppose, about the lack of scenery is that I spent half of the time driving in the dark. It took me about 22 hours from Minneapolis to Austin, which is pretty great time considering I was towing a huge trailer filled with my worldly possessions. The trailer I towed I rented from Uhaul...and boy do they charge an ass load. And sadly I was unable to fit half of my things into my trailer and car, leaving behind my grill, a few dressers, and some other randoms. I am really going to miss the grill, but it was just to big and potentially could make the rest of my things dirty, so I just couldn't justify taking it. It is even more tragic knowing the importance of grilling meat here in Texas. Leaving some things behind wasn't so bad, besides the grill most of them are pretty low end furniture, but I am going to be in a 3 bedroom house and the furniture I took with isn't going to fill up nearly enough of it. I now have the option of buying 1 decent piece of furniture or for the same amount of money trying to buy many really crappy pieces from Craigslist or yard sales. So if you are bored you can search craigslist in Austin for me and find these things.
1. Grill...gas...charcoal is for cavemen
2. Entertainment Center- has to be able to hold a 50 inch plasma television
3. Couches/chairs/coffee tables/end tables- I have a living room and a media room in the house and only enough things to put in one.
4. A lady friend- Forget about the legality and the morality of the idea of there being a lady for me on craigslist...just look...preferably between the ages of 22-30...or over 50 and an excellent baker and scrabble player.
5.decorations- I don't like a lot of decorations as i don't like the clutter, but if if I had a lamp or something to set on the floor in one of the empty bedrooms that would be nice.
6. Come visit- You can't find this on craigslist, but it is something you could do.