Taking a road trip takes a lot of preparation. You have to look your best, so we both went to our respective hair placed to get coiffed.

Richard went to the Barber Shop on Sunshine St.

The Barbershop

It’s an old-style barber shop and it used to be housed in Bass Pro Shop. They still cut Johnny Morris’s hair, founder of Bass Pro. The proprieters, a husband and wife team not only cut hair but also have a country music band and have cut several albums.

Richard before his cut…shaggy. The barber asked if this was his bi-annual or quarterly cut. Richard said, “Quarterly.”

Before picture:

 Looking a little shaggy.

Banter in the Barber shop.

Cool old Barbershop

 The Final Cut.

My Beautification. Ha!

Paul Mitchell Beauty School

I am cheap so I went to a beauty school to get mine done; never again. It took 6 hours for a trim, color and highlights. I know they are learning,  but really!

I went to the Paul Mitchell school.

The Paul Mitchel School

This is a shot of the inside of the school/salon.

I arrived at about 2:30p.m.

The Newbie

This is the young ladie, I can’t remember her name, that started the process. I took 30 minutes just to get my hair washed and for them to put a rinse on it to break down the box color treatment I had on it. Whatever!

Then she trimmed maybe a half of an inch off the back…she didn’t touch the front third of may hair. It took an hour for that.

By the time they got started on the color it was 4:30 p.m.(she had to leave at 5 p.m. and someone else took over. Thank God! I was her first color and the directions she left were absurd. The girl had to go talk to the supervisor, she asked her if that was what she was supposed to do, she said, NO! The second girl assured me that she would make sure my hair would be fine. I said, I don’t want to be bald…that was my biggest concern at this point.

By the time I got out of there it was 8:30 at night. I hadn’t eaten lunch and I was so starving and thirsty I didn’t wait to have someone take an after picture. The color had been on my hair so long that my scalp was burned. I’m still peeling from the chemical burn; not only my head, but my face. If I try to wear makeup, it just looks horrid.

I have had a lot of bad experiences with hair and hair color. This I will never do again. It is not worth it to save $20. For more crazy hair stories check out http://heyoprah.blogspot.com

You’ll see what it looks like in future posts. It looks okay…it’s just the peeling….

Preping the car.

D and R Automotive

We took the car in next to have it looked over. I didn’t want to take a 3000 mile trip without doing this. We also got a change of oil. Dan, from D & R automotive checked over the care and aired up our tires to 40 pounds of pressure. He said we would get better gas mileage. Good to know!

AAA Road Trip Planning

AAA OFFICE

We have AAA which had come in handy for us just in saving on towing  charges, but we thought since it was in place we may as well get their help planning the trip.

AAA Service Agent

Our AAA service agent was very helpful. She helped us make reservations in motels that have wifi and and swimming pool in our price range. She helped us plan our route, gave us tons of maps and tour books and advised us on what is the best way to carry your money. We were told about their visa travel cards and she said it is best to carry a mixed wallet of a travel card, a credit card and some cash. She said you should vary where you keep it so if you lose it or someone tries to take it from you it won’t all be in one place. Good advice.

Route Map

 Our map was highlighted on a couple different maps with alternative routes marked in different highlighter colors. If we want to make good time we follow orange, if we want to take pictures and sight see, we can go on the yellow route. What a great idea!

All of this prep doesn’t include buying a GPS system for the car and any other incidentals we may need, a couple of days doing laundry and making sure any clothes we want to take are clean and pressed. But for the most part we are ready.