Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 21st, 2007
Santa Rampage!
Day 101:Las Vegas
We went back to Macys for breakfast and had some nice waffles and oatmeal for breakfast. We figured it was about 5 hours to Las Vegas give or take and we would gain an hour at the Nevada border. A guy called Leon had replied to our couchsurfing requests but made the offer [...]
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
What a Grand 100th day!
Today marked the hundredth day of my trip and was also the day I would finally get to see the Grand Canyon which always appears near the top of all the spectacular travel lists in the world. We even managed to get up reasonably early since we would be driving and walking around all day. [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
99:Tuba City, Az:Shiprock, 4 Corners, Monument Valley, getting covered in shite…
This part of New Mexico was pure desert, mostly flat when we started out in the morning but we could see a massive rocky mountain looming on the highway as we drove towards it. Checking the map identified it as Shiprock and it looked like a mass of sails towering into the sky. I will [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
98:Farmington:Keep on keeping on…
We had to get a move on, the Grand Canyon was so near now and we still had to get to El Paso for Christmas so after a late brunch with Mike we filled up with the cheapest gas of the trip so far ($2.66) and carried on west. We chose to head away from [...]
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
97:Santa Fe, Nm:Day trippin’ in the cold mountains.
Santa Fe is an artists town and I had now realized this was where Mel-Mel was based but since she was now enjoying herself in Thailand wouldn’t be available for drinks. The place is full of galleries but we weren’t looking to buy a load of paintings, we’d rather concentrate on seeing something cheap. We [...]
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Sunday, December 16th, 2007
96:Santa Fe, Nm:Too cold for art.
I wasn’t going to make the same mistake I did at the dinosaur park and we paid up our $14 pronto before they called in the feds and we headed back to Roswell, intending to go to the museum. I also intended to get a photo of me standing by the city limits sign with [...]
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
95:Roswell, Nm:The truth *is* out there, but I’d rather sit in the warm drinking coffee…
We woke up in the wal-mart car park feeling like we’d been abducted by freaks. Stumbling into the bathroom for a wash and teeth clean the people in Carlsbad looked liked they’d been breeding with Aliens or something. I’m guessing we might have looked just as weird to them but I’ve never seen such a [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
94:Carlsbad:The end of the road?
When I got up my headache was still throbbing in my skull but at least I could see and think straight, everytime I bent over my forehead would feel like my brain was trying to slosh out of my head. Still I had a job to do and it was the last day of my [...]
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
93:Ozona, Tx:Evil Cake!
The sun came out in the morning but it wasn’t enough to turn the car into an oven like it would in Florida and get us up. We filled her up in San Angelo and determined that today would be the end of my groundwriting and we would be free to go where ever we [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
92:Somewhere in the heart of Texas:Im not going to Graceland, in Memphis Tennessee
The weather was shockingly bad when we woke up, rainy and very cold. We had been watching the weather reports and it looked like the front of snow would just miss us but we still had a few miles north to go. We left Abilene and followed the road until it was time to go [...]
