January 2010
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Route 66
A little more on our Day 9 travels from Mary.
Route 66 (in Arizona, at least) has mostly been replaced by I-40 and exists today almost as a frontage road for the interstate. Many of the businesses that used to rely on cross country travelers have survived clustered around the freeway exits. Williams, where we ate dinner on Day 8 and stayed overnight, has made its center a little tourist town...
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My Last 5 Tweets
Hello from… well, I don’t know how many feet up because an idiot tried to bomb *Detroit* of all places. But hello from Virgin flight 358.
(Sure, I can’t get wireless at Andrew & Ethan’s in Berkeley, but on my flight home, voila.)
Not sure if ability to tweet make turbulence better or worse
Also, pilot says “It is currently zero degrees in Boston, but they...
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Day 9 (01.06.10)
After a chilly night in a poorly heated motel room, We started our morning by running across the street to the American Flyer Coffee Co. where Kristen had her first real cappuccino since leaving New Jersey. After clearing the ice (!) from the windshield, we took a shortcut on I-40 over to Historic Route 66 which we took from Ash Fork to Kingman.
From Kingman, an industrious but ultimately...
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The Thing?
I’d like to take a moment to re-mention The Thing?, which we visited on Day 7 in eastern Arizona.
The Thing? is extremely anti-climatic, but worth the dollar of admission for this argument, if nothing else:
1937 ROLLS ROYCE
This antique car was believed to have been used by Adolph Hitler. The THING is, it can’t be proved.
You know who drove cars? HITLER. Aaaand roadside...
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FINISHED!
IN BERKELEY. That means we made it! Internet evades us right now, but we wanted to let you know we were in safely. More updates tomorrow.
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*looks up* Oh hey, hi BART!
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Gah, fog. Must be in the Bay Area.
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On to 580 at Tracy! Very exciting to be close to our final destination! About an hour to go.
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Passing through the Sierra Nevadas. Mountains straight up on both sides of us.
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Out of the shadow of Death Valley and back in the land of cell coverage.
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Requisite Bellagio shot. What should we do in our 2 hrs in Vegas?
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My gods, the smog over Vegas is disgusting Coming from the east in low afternoon light, the city has an ugly brown haze over it.
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Crossed the Hoover Dam into Pacific Time. On to Vegas baby!
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Day 8 (01.05.2010)
We stayed the night at Kristen’s grandparents in Mesa and enjoyed some quality time with them (and their cats). In fact, we had a stowaway in the morning who had to be shooed away before Mary took him home to Boston.
Well, Boston via the Grand Canyon, of course. What’s a trip across the country without seeing the Grand Canyon?! So we headed north out of Phoenix, jumping off...
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We’re cruisin’ Route 66. Just passed BurmaShave signs!
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The only thing worse than no wifi is signal for <5 min and then connection timeouts and password protected networks.
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Headed north to the Grand Canyon via Sedona today. On y va!
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We’ve come back to snow country just south of Flagstaff. That said, roads are clear and it’s 47F.
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Passed through aptly named Red Rocks Country and Sedona, AZ.
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Day 7 (01.04.2010)
After breakfast at our great hotel this morning (as pictured previously), we hit the road for Tucson. We made a couple of short stops en route, once to get coffee in Lordsburg, NM (at Buckabrew’s [next door to Mom and Pop’s Pyro Shop], which we highly recommend) and once at The Thing (which was worth about the buck we paid for it - there’s a gorgeous rest area about a mile...
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Day 5 (01.02.2010)
Checked out of our motel and hit the road to San Antonio this morning, reaching the Alamo before lunchtime. We’d heard it was underwhelming; we thought it was pretty but very crowded. It seems Michigan State and Texas Tech are playing a bowl game in San Antonio? Fans from both school were there with colors flying. It was also a special “First Saturday”, so there were...
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A very bumpy drive thru Saguaro National Park.
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The Passat passed 100,000 miles!
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Passed over the Continental Divide and into Arizona.
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Breakfast, Day 7
Just thought I’d quickly upload this surreptitiously taken photo of the cowboys a few tables over at our hotel restaurant while we wait for our food.
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Crossing the Rio Grande, about 1 hr to bed.
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Arrived at White Sands at sunset stayed til our hands were cold and it got dark
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Driving thru Texas desert from Carlsbad Caverns to White Sands.
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We just time traveled into NM on a tiny, deserted road, grooving along to Mexican (well, out of Carlsbad) radio.
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We found some wonderfully twangy music here in west TX, but the station quickly faded out.
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Speed limit in this stretch of Texas is 80 mph!
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Judging by the number of tourists lots of people remember the Alamo.
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Day 4
We celebrated the new year by sleeping in a bit and Mary was treated to some of Jean’s excellent tea. We also got to pick some kumquats from Jean and Jeremy’s yard (note: The oblong ones have the sour taste I’m used to, but the rounder fruit from the shorter tree are sweet and amazing).
We took US 90 south out of New Orleans and drove through Acadiana, the bayous near the...
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I-10 Forecast →
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I love the rest area on I-10 W in Columbus, TX.
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Texas welcomes us with the best state welcome center so far plus free wifi.
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Passing Iowa, Louisiana, just to confuse you.
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Driving thru sugar plantations in the Delta.
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Leaving New Orleans with a bag of kumquats from Jeaner’s yard. Off to see the Bayou.
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- Neon icicles above takeout cocktails in the busy French Quarter.
December 2009
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About 30 miles outside New Orleans!
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Our lunch spot thanks to Aunt Wendy’s packed lunch and our Michelin atlas.
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Entering Central Time Zone!
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Off into a drizzly Georgia morning, but the forecast looks like it will be clear skies to New Orleans in an hour or so.
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We’re about 30 min outside Atlanta and it’s snowing.