<p>yeah you’re right. i’ll probably end up selling it and getting some type of suv or something because i’ll be needing space anyway for all my stuff. my trunk wouldn’t fit a fourth of my wardrobe</p>
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<p>Once I had to endure a… idk how many hours drive, but it was from Iowa down to New Orleans. It was HORRENDOUS!!! My ass hurt from Missouri all the way to Arkansas - fell asleep til Louisiana. I could barely stay awake riding shotgun on the way back. What’s there to enjoy? Talking? listening to radio? singing along to music for adolescents? I’m not feeling you.</p>
<p>r0kang3l, I live in Arizona and there are bus routes everywhere in Phoenix! I will admit though, that most stuff is more spread out than in the East, AND nobody wants to walk from a bus stop to wherever when it’s 110.</p>
<p>I’m bringing my car, but ASU is twenty minutes away. Though, I’d have to agree that all the fun is driving it there. Go with your parents. You’re going to be 2000+ miles away from them for a WHILE. Oughtta talk to them some more anyway.</p>
<p>As far as breaks/semesters go, you could always leave your car on campus for Thanksgiving weekend, spring break, maybe even the month of winter break. It would lower your long roadtrippin’ to only twice a year.</p>
<p>I have a friend at school who is from Colorado…and we go to school in NY. She drove. It’s not quite as far as you’re talking, but she was not about to go to school without her car. How important is it to you to have it?</p>
<p>I figured this was probably going to be about a west-coast school.</p>
<p>As someone who goes to school about an hour east of Pepperdine and as someone who knows a bit about Pepperdine (or at least its reputation), you’re going to want a car. It’s damn hard to survive in SoCal without one (renting a zipcar or a taxi just to go grocery shopping is a pain in the ass and expensive), and Pepperdine is in the middle of nowhere. You have the beach, but besides that, you can’t walk to just about anything, unless you want to be walking for hours. Also, from my understanding, Pepperdine’s campus tends to be boring (I believe it’s a dry campus and has other restrictive rules stemming from its Christian mission, but I’m not 100% sure) so a lot of students, from my knowledge, go off-campus to have fun (which requires cars).</p>
<p>You’ll probably be alright if you don’t bring yours since a lot of your friends probably will have one, but you’ll probably be best off if you either bring yours or buy a new one out here. I’m from New England so I know it’s pretty ridiculous to drive it all the way out here; personally, I’m not going to do that, but I know people who are going to have cars and I’m probably going to get a zip card in case no one I know can drive me and I absolutely need to go somewhere. That might be something to consider too - if your campus has ZipCars that might be an option, but they can get pretty costly if you use them a lot.</p>
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<p>That’s probably because you were driving in Iowa; I’ll agree that’s not the most exciting part of the country (Corn, little lake, two trees, cow. Corn, little lake, two trees, cow.). However, once you get out to South Dakota, western Nebraska, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado (I-70 West of Denver is spectacular), and any of the states in that area and you’ll see the drive is totally worth it.</p>
<p>Part of it is also budgeting your time. Try to find attractions you’d like to see, and try to make it so you drive four hours in the morning, stop there, then drive four more hours after visiting there. You can get an easy 550+ miles a day in that way and really enjoy the ride.</p>
<p>^keep in mind. i’m not gonna go frolicking into state parks by myself…or any other attraction for that matter</p>
<p>Why not?</p>
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