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| road trip pics |
| 06.28.05 (12:36 pm) [edit] |
In the next few entries, i will chronicle A's and my road trip from California to Wisconsin. the Grand Canyon takes up most of the pics because 1)it is beautiful 2)we ran out of room on the memory card.On Wednesday, June 8th, Aaron went to work by 6 a.m., I finished last-minute errands, and I picked him up at noon. It was a hot, sunny day. I thought it might be a long time before I saw that blinding California sun (it turns out it is a Southwestern sun). We managed to stop at an In-N-Out on the way out of California, where it is mostly desert and hardly (business)life. It was yummy. If you choose to go fat food, In-N-Out at least doesn't freeze anything (maybe icecream)- it's cool how they slice the potatoes that day. Anyways, we brought snacks and water, and usually one full meal a day. Now, Aaron has the actually notes on what we were thinking/noticed along the way, so ask him for details. I'll do my best with the photos. I'm starting with the beginning of the trip. so the bottom is the first set, and eventually, you'll be able to look bottom-up to experience it )kind of ) how we did, or top-down as a mad reverse of things (maybe we'll turn paler). So here it goes: This gas station-place is in Arizona- our first stop for gas, I believe. It was very hot and very windy and the most expensive gas on the trip ($2.69/gal, I believe- we got 3.5 gals- enough to hopefully get a lower price ahead). The sign for a hotel foreshadowed much of Arizona- worn down. Obviously full of life at some point decades ago. This decay has been attributed to major interstates routing drivers past the towns on Route 66. But despite this decay, many exits site 'Rte 66,' and it seems like people really want you to bring life back into their towns.  We saw many different types of landscapes- mostly hills and mountains in California and Western Arizona. Those clouds also looked cool. 
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posted by: newbie39 (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (12:48 pm)
"fat food"--lol
"it seems like people really want you to bring life back into their towns"--lol, ya think? ;)
. . . and where did Aro get the coveted "Team Rodeo" tee?
posted by: Aro (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (1:00 pm)
Nice job complining the pictures! Perhaps I'll have to do parallel entries with the notecards we wrote up every hour of driving, so that people can switch between our reports and match up words with pictures!
posted by: Aro (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (1:00 pm)
as far as the Team Rodeo shirt goes -- I'll never tell!
posted by: hopie26 (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (9:50 pm)
Hmm, the pics don't seem to work on my computer. I think gas is supposed to get up to $3/gallon by August!
posted by: hopie26 (reply)
post date: 06.29.05 (5:06 pm)
Oh, I can see the pics today. You and Aaron look really nice - grown up really :)
posted by: Erin (reply)
post date: 06.30.05 (3:10 am)
Reply to: newbie39
Obivously, Aaron's team won the rodeo, and got a T.
Aaron: about parallel entries: sounds great!
hope: I'm glad you can see the pics now- and I don't feel more grown up, even if I look it.
posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 06.30.05 (12:52 pm)
"Obivously" NOT!!!
Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
posted by: newbie39 (reply)
post date: 06.30.05 (12:55 pm)
That was me.
(Don't ya?)