Today my girlfriend is going to Holland for 11 months.
Technically, today she will be going to Chicago and New York. We had this idea that she could save money if we road-tripped it to New York... but her mom shot down that idea, and ever since she's only been able to repeat exactly what mom said about it.

"Too many things could go wrong."

The road trip wasn't even originally my idea... it would just be nice to have something like that before she goes away for so long.

More later...