In this diary‑style vlog, the group wakes up late on the 26th day of a 28‑day road trip and prepares for a long drive to New Orleans. Tammy emphasizes sticking to a disciplined diet before the upcoming marathon, while Speaker A packs supplements, water, and gear. The team makes several bathroom and fuel stops, commenting humorously on the poor condition of Alabama rest areas and the monotony of the drive. They encounter old friends (Ray, Beth, Ellington) at a remote Alabama location, share a quick Taco Bell meal, and continue toward Mississippi. Upon reaching the Mississippi Welcome Center they spot the distant New Orleans skyline and check into a modest hotel (Daisy Duke’s). Evening activities include dinner at the hotel restaurant, a walk down Bourbon Street, and being ejected from a jazz club because Carson is under‑21. The vlog wraps with reflections on the exhausting day, the noisy hotel environment, and plans to run a short mile‑or‑two the next day before the marathon, noting only two days remain in the 28‑day journey.
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Friday morning and we are just now getting up. The sun is up, which means I slept longer than normal. That's the second time I've done this in this 28 days. That's really unusual that I sleep that late, or maybe the sun's just getting up earlier, I don't know. But we're on our way to New Orleans, I hope. Maybe we'll have some coffee first.
Next few days are going to be challenging at best for diet, so I'm going to make sure that I get off to at least the best start I can. I'm going to stick with my routine this morning. That way I'm going to avoid biscuits and all those tasty things that we'll find at the fast food restaurants on the way out of town, because I know we'll stop. Then I'll do my best during the next few days just to make sure I don't do anything really crazy as far as food goes and eat something that might upset my stomach or change my metabolism in any way.
So one thing I've learned is the CloudBread does not toast well, and it doesn't smell good when it comes out of the toaster.
It smells like eggs. And doesn't taste very good.
Making sure I got my supplements ready for the trip, along with one extra in case something goes wrong. Preparing for hydration for the trip, one gallon each and then some with ice. We are packed and getting ready to go. Had to find my sunglasses. What? What do I have already?
Third.
Look what you did.
Scolding.
I'm sorry, honey. I swear I won't do it again. I might do whatever the hell I want to. You can't stop me. It's your channel. I have a video camera. You have a channel. And I have a channel. You can't stop me. I'll do whatever the hell I want. Okay. We're just talking about how we've eliminated all competition out of society, and now we have nothing left to do but fight. Everybody wants to fight. Nobody wants to get along. Nobody— and you can just hang up the phone, but no, you gotta fight with those people. I know what it's like. I do it all the time. We should have flown.
Well, we've made our first stop.
Not even an hour hour on the road and we got to stop for a bathroom break. Grant and I are drinking a lot of water today, so that's probably going to be happening quite a bit. On the road again. Just driven through Montgomery, Alabama, and I've got to tell you, I didn't see a single thing there I wish I had seen. This is turning into be a long drive. Another hour down the road, another bathroom break. I've got to say, that is one of the nastiest dirtiest, oldest, just in worst state of repair rest areas I've ever been in in my life. Just a little north of, I guess, Greenville, Alabama, wherever the hell that is. But it is beautiful out here today, and I'm thankful that the rest area was there because I needed it. Boring. Dear God, will Alabama ever end? I'm about to die.
I'm so negative.
I'm sure Alabama is going And eventually. So we find ourselves with a dilemma. We're out in the middle of nowhere and everybody's getting a little grumpy because we haven't had food and nobody wants to eat junk food. And you certainly don't want to eat the heat and eat at the Shell station. And it's just looking like it's going to be a rough next hour or so before we get to civilization again.
Filming me?
I'm not filming Grant.
He's grumpy.
I am not grumpy. You need to feed him.
I am good.
I think we're gonna have to go in. We've driven less than half a mile since my last video, and Lola has all the way been yelling at us to make a U-turn. Tammy's hungry. Grant's laughing, he's hungry. Carson doesn't want to get out. He doesn't like Taco Bell. Who likes Taco Bell? Nobody does. It's just fuel. But I think we're going to be having some Taco Bell fuel. Nothing better than running into people you haven't seen in a couple years, 500 miles from You're supposed to. You know you're in for dining pleasure when you get a spork. Now I'm excited to eat. When I parked, there was no one here. I didn't anticipate us staying very long. How unbelievable to, uh, end up in— where are we? Andalusia, Alabama, something like that. Creek Indian Reservation. I'm covering my phone, my mirror, my— whatever, what do you call it? Camera.
Kamara.
Kamara. That is the craziest thing I have ever seen, to run into Ray and Beth and Ellington in the middle of nowhere Alabama. We certainly didn't expect— this day has just not turned out anything like I expected. The last thing I wanted to eat today was Taco Bell, but I'm sure glad we did because we wouldn't run into them otherwise. Exactly. No, drink a lot of water, get it out of your system, go on with life. And, you know, maybe— I'm— I hope they'll keep our hotel room for us. Yeah, that would be water. That would be a river. Look at this, more water up here. Look, there's lots of water coming.
Another wasteland somewhere that you haven't—
it could be Louisiana.
The what?
Louisiana.
Louisiana?
No, Louisibama. Louisibama. There we go. We're gonna merge them all together. Louisibama. Look. As much as I'd like to go left, I think we have to go right. Go that way! Goodbye, Florida. It's like it just happened. Car accident just happened. And that isn't the real— that's not the real cause of the problem. Now there's your problem.
Triple slam.
Yeah. Oh, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. Well, now Mississippi knows how to do welcome centers. This is impressive. This is the entrance to the Welcome Center. Wait till you see what's inside. Thank you, thank you very much. I've got to say, just because you can doesn't mean you should. Way off in the distance, City of New Orleans. I probably can't see anything. It's an interesting, uh, dichotomy here. I mean, you got the skyscrapers and then the Superdome's right through there. You can just barely see— oh, I see the Superdome. And then over here you've got this, all these new buildings over there, and then right here you've just got slum, kind of slummy. We have found our hotel.
Huzzah!
It has been a journey indeed, but it looks like we're gonna have fun. Of course we made it into our hotel, gotten checked in. Just, uh, checking out the lobby here. Beautiful place. Looking forward to a good weekend. I'll say so far our experience in New Orleans is a little bit rougher than it was in New York. We've arrived in our room and it is, um, adequate. We have settled into Daisy Duke's for dinner. It's, um, a humble place.
I have a plan for world domination and it's very simple. First, we build a robot army made entirely of lasers. So the robots are balls of light, and they're made completely of lasers. Not only that, they float off the ground, so nothing can stop them. And the first country we invade, no one's gonna, gonna be— no one's gonna realize it. We're gonna invade Puerto Rico first. Nobody's going to see it coming.
This is the unbridled carnage that is Bourbon Street. So Bourbon Street is nothing like I expected it to be. It's A lot narrower than I thought it would be, and there's a lot more people this time of year than I thought there would be.
Yes, there is.
We just got kicked out of a jazz club because Carson's not 21. I will say that New Orleans, or at least Bourbon Street, is every bit as seedy as I expected it to be. Well, that wraps it up for day 26 of 28 days. Tomorrow is our last run before the marathon. We'll run for a mile or two just to keep our legs fresh. A lot of travel today. It's been a very, very hard day, and things are gonna be extremely loud and noisy, and I'm gonna try to get to bed early because I think we're gonna have to fight for every minute of sleep. We saw 3 or 4 buses of spring breakers unload in front of our hotel, so— and I think we're hearing about half of them on our floor. But that wraps it up, day 28, 28 days— not day 28, day 26, 28 days. Uh, just 2 more to go.
