Here I am sitting at the Falling Branch megabus station. It's cold outside and full of strangers. 20 more minutes until I board the bus.. My journey ends at University of Maryland. I've never been so exciting to take a trip back to Maryland and I've also never taken a bus without my parents. Unfamiliar with the area and scared of strangers I don't know how this trip is going to work out.

I just took my seat on the bus. A 300 pound African American just took his seat next to me and is blaring a song by  "2 chainz" out of his iPod. I was basically sitting next to the hulk. Thank God I took the window seat so I could look at the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains on this journey. There all types of people on this bus. I wonder where they are going and why they are traveling. I wish I had my car so I could drive myself from Randolph College to Maryland. I could be blaring my music in my car and sit on my leather seats rather than listening to my music through headphones at a reasonable volume in these itchy bus seats. Not to mention I haven't eaten anything since before my 12:00 class. My stomach is making weird noises because I''m starving! 5 more hours until I can eat. I'm craving a buffalo chicken wrap with fries and a mountain dew and The Cavern back at Randolph College. 5 hours of sitting on a bus can be boring..thankful I have my "Thr Sex Lives of Cannibals" book to read!

It sucks not having a car in college to be able to go on these road trips myself. Instead I had to pay someone to drive me to the bus station, pay for a bus ticket, and pay for someone to pick me up from the bus station on Sunday. I'm so used to having my own car and driving it every day to wherever I need to go. I've been on bus rides at school for field trips but never a bus ride from school to home. I guess I could think of this as a long field trip. I've never felt so out of place.