Welcome to and welcome back for the S29ABC.
I, Uey-Tlatoani Tribephyltzin, the revered speaker of the ABC, have decreed (from my new palace) that the game must go on.
I also can guarantee that despite the "feelings" that the initial entries were abominable there are many many even worse entries to come. From all of us.
The prospect of this game being turned on it's ear, on a weekly basis, are pretty much confirmed with how the first entry went down, the prospect of new joiners AND the revelation of the season twist.

So, since I have my computer back (and all the necessary spreadsheets and photochopping services), here are the scores...

Survivor Scores
7: Josh
6: Jeremy
4: Keith ~ Val
3: Alec ~ Jaclyn ~ JohnR ~ Wes ~ Drew ~ Jon ~ Reed ~ Julie ~ Kelly ~ Missy ~ Natalie
-3: Baylor
-9: Dale
-25: Nadiya

Now, as already evidenced, 5cats makes an early and possibly fateful first entry by playing it fairly safe.
This affords her a first place ranking.
And while the rest of the players, all three of them, fill in the Top4, their scores are no-where near the disaster I was being led to believe they would be.
The sky hasn't fallen but it will get pretty stormy this season.
ABC Scoreboard

• RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,CTgirl, 11:38 PM, 09-30-14
  • arrival,tribephyl, 03:23 PM, 10-01-14
    • RE: arrival,CTgirl, 11:11 PM, 10-01-14
• RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,coldbrewer, 11:27 AM, 10-01-14
  • RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,tribephyl, 03:24 PM, 10-01-14
• tribe's 2nd Entry,tribephyl, 02:59 PM, 10-01-14
• RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,5cats, 05:03 PM, 10-01-14
• RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,Flowerpower1, 06:43 PM, 10-01-14
• RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,Georganna, 07:17 PM, 10-01-14
• RE: S29ABC | 2nd Entry,suzzee, 07:56 PM, 10-01-14

Have you arrived in Beantown yet? Too bad the weather sucks this week. Seriously, it was summertime until Monday night. (Um, when did you arrive?! )

1. Lockbox - Julie

2. safelist: Alec, Baylor, Drew, Jeremy, John, Jon, Josh, Julie, Keith, Kelley, Missy, Natalie, Reed, Wes

I arrived on Friday morning. Pretty much beautiful weather my whole way through the country, until I hit N.Carolina and stayed kinda icky through Virginia, W. Virginia, and the first half of Pennsylvania. Then got nice again through the other half of Penn, then NY, and Conn.
But when I got here? Absolutely fricken' amazing weather. 3 days straight of BE.A.U.TI.FUL! Hot and lovely. I was still able to wear my travel clothes (see flip-flops, shorts and tanktops.)
And yes, now it is a different story. I currently have a canopy in the yard just so I can experience outdoors still although I am almost always in a sweater.

16 states in 9 days.
Highlights?
1. Northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado
2. All of Missouri (Sooo beautiful and some of the nicest people along the way as well.)
3. The cities of Nashville and Knoxville
4. The firt 30 miles of the BlueRidge Parkway
5. The eastern portion of Pennsylvania (in early fall)
6. The first 3 days in Massachusetts

Lowlights?
1. Eastern Colorado and all of Kansas (except for Scott Lake)
2. The screwy Missouri roadway identification system.
3. The remaining 60 miles of the BlueRidge parkway until we got on a bigger highway.
3. Western Pennsylvania.
4. The ancient roadways of Massachusetts.

Welcome to you new home! Glad you made it safely with some beautiful sights along the way. I have never driven cross country. I think everyone should do it at least once! I am really happy you were here for last weekend and the last gasp of summer. We should still have some warmish days ahead of us, but remember what Mark Twain said, 'If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.'

The highways here are ancient. I especially love how the entrance and exits are in the wrong order so you're always trying to exit as cars are streaming onto the highway.