Archive for 'Great American Road Trip '08' Category
Life is a highway: 2009 edition
6 July 2009Hello, friends. I have been away from you far too long. I blame the two-headed monster of Paying Attention To My Job While I’m At Work and Paying Attention To My DVR While I’m At Home. Seriously, have you guys been watching 16 and Pregnant on MTV? Never have I felt so many of my [...]
Day 13: Missouri
6 July 2008When we got to St Louis, we drove directly to Busch Stadium so I could get one step closer to my life’s goal of eating a hot dog at every major league baseball stadium. The cardinals’ stadium is beautiful:
and we loved the view of the arch. We were under the overhang, which was lucky as [...]
Day 12: Nebraska
6 July 2008Sucks.
Day 11: Wyoming
6 July 2008The only experience I had with Wyoming prior to this trip was my assignment to act as a republican senator from that state when we did Mock Senate in AP History. I wrote “Wyoming- Wy Not?” on my name tag (a pun I’m so terribly proud of that I still write it into fiction pieces [...]
Day 10: Utah II
6 July 2008We filled our Utah stops with books and dinosaurs, which I think was my mom’s silent way of apologizing to me for Reno. She knows me well enough to be sure that putting dinosaurs in front of me will guarantee my happiness for the next 600 miles or so.
We woke up in Salt Lake City [...]
Day 9: Nevada
1 July 2008I thought it would be at least a little hilarious to be at a casino in Reno at 10am on a Sunday. Over the course of the day I made at least 14 jokes via various means of communication about shooting a man just to watch him die, so I suppose I got my money’s [...]
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 [...]