Archive for June, 2008
Day 8: California
29 June 2008Marie makes an amazing tour guide, and she took us all over San Francisco on Saturday. This was great in many respects, not the least of which being that I didn’t have to drive through the city any more, as it was kind of giving me a heart attack with all the uncontrolled intersections. It’s [...]
Day 7: California
28 June 2008Most of Friday was spent getting to San Francisco which, personally, I think should have been a lot easier. But it turns out you can’t just drive straight across Nevada, you have to go all the way south through Vegas to head north through California. This baffles me– how is there no highway that just [...]
Day 6- Utah
28 June 2008We drove north from the grand canyon up to Utah and Bryce Canyon. Initially I thought this would be kind of a let down– how can you compete with the grand canyon?– but it was fantastic, even thought it took a mildly frustrating drive on one lane roads through arizona to get there. At one [...]
Day 5: Arizona- Grand Canyon
27 June 2008I didn’t think I would have any strong emotions about the Grand Canyon– going into it, I figured this was really my mom’s rodeo and I was just along for the ride. “Isn’t it kind of just a hole in the ground?” I emailed to Julie the day before we went. “I didn’t think of [...]
Day 4: Arizona, Part I
27 June 2008This entire trip has more or less been planned around getting my mom to the Grand Canyon, to the point where I was a little nervous that she would just turn around and start walking home after we were done there, convinced that she had done enough on this trip and ready to be rid [...]
Day 3: New Mexico
27 June 2008The number one question my mom and I have asked each other this week is “What time is it?” followed closely by “What day is it?” We never have any idea. I have been confused by the idea of time zones my entirely life (when you cross from one to another, where does that hour [...]
Day 2: Oklahoma
25 June 2008I’m already about a week behind in updates, which should shock no one, but I’ll try harder. Right now it’s technically day 5 and we’re at the grand canyon, but I’ll dig deep and see what I can remember about oklahoma.
In the span of 150 miles or so I bought myself two hats. At rest [...]
road trip day one: Tennessee and Arkansas
22 June 2008(Topping the list of things I never thought I’d say:) I’m in Arkansas. I don’t have a real grasp on my feelings for this state yet since it was nighttime when we drove in, but the hotel we’re checking out of shortly was out of nonsmoking rooms last night, which I guess is a good [...]
mashed
20 June 2008I really hope that at some point in my life, someone will give me a Mr Potato Head as a gift by sending him to me piece by piece in the mail (one day, a hand… the next, a moustache…), but I don’t think that works very well as a PR campaign, Disneyland.
via Jen!
Touched down in the land of the delta blues in the middle of the pouring rain
19 June 200848 hours from now I am scheduled to be in Memphis. And then Oklahoma City, and then Santa Fe, and then the Grand Canyon, and so on. I’ve done what I consider to be an enormous amount of meticulous planning, though that just means I called AmEx to insure everything I’m bringing but still have [...]