Huzah!!!!! I am now on the west coast. San Diego to be exact. South of San Deigo to be even more exact. I'm staying with my Aunt Gloria and Uncle Bob (Col. in tha Marines) south of SD and 5 miles north of Tiajuana (or TJ as the kids call it here). Since my last blog Jason and I drove through the night just to get out of Texas (which is a fucking huge state) and then through New Mexico and eventually rested in Tuscon, Az. After a day there we drove some of the night (while sleeping the rest) to San Diego.
I don't think I've ever seen land as beautiful as that between texas and california. The rock formations are gorgeous, the desert is reallt flat, but then there are the kick ass mountains which just pop up out of nowhere. The three things that really caught my eye on this leg of the trip were:
1. A series of large hills that were so covered with rocks ley looked like trash heaps. I mean there were thousands of little rocks so you couldn't see the actual mountain.
2. When the world went from dirt to sand. I woke up and there were dunes everywhere. They came in three size, wee, not so wee, and friggin' huge. Before there was dirt and brushes, but the brushes were gone. It was cool.
3. The Colorado river runs through the desert. So there was this one shot of two large dunes on either side of this river . . . in the desert . . . the sand went up to the banks of the river which had long reeds on it.
In Austin I found a place that let me pay 10 bucks and play video games for free from 3-9pm. So that's what I did in Austin. I regained my Tekken pride by losing only one match all night and that was because I wanted to go get a coke. Once again I got asked the where do you play question and again I failed to give the correct answer. The people in Austin (at least at that arcade aren't all that great at Tekken. According to the guy who works there I could walk through thier Tekken tournaments and win some cizash, but the tourney isn't until saturday so I can't play. The other cool thing about the free stuff is that I got to play all of the expensive games including Dance Dance Revolution. DDR has this wierd cult of kids (almost all male) who play it . . . and actually try to make it really competitive. Now we can all agree that I might have competitive streak at times, but DDR is a fun game that should only be made competitive if it is in jest. Anyway, I didn't play much because the people were annoying, but I will be playing a lot at challenges when I get back to Atlanta.
Tuscon has a decent night life. Jason and I went to a place called 4th avenue that is a mix of little five points and the highlands. It was nice. Tonight we're going to the gaslight district in San Diego. The driving plans for the remainer of the trip are question mark. We may take a north loop, we may go south. We may leave tomorrow mid-day we may wait until afternoon. What I do know is that I'm really tired after pulling two night shifts in a row and I am going to need more sleep to make it back well.
Hmmm . . . what else? Oh, I've been writing the abbreviations for all the states the truck has been in. California makes it 25. There will be at least two more before the end of the trip (oklahoma and arkansas). After that the truck may just need to die. This whole not shaving thing sucks. My beard really itches, but I told people that I would keep it until I get back. I'm shaving the sucker off wednesday night though, and no more hair for me.
Jeremy, Klonoa 2 is out for the PS2 and is amazing. Jason and I have been playing GBC a lot and have found the second link game (Oracle of Ages). I played Sega Rally in the arcade and it is a lot better with a wheel.
Brad, next time you see Cori and Derek tell them comgrats for me. I used to see them playing volleyball by sixth street the past month.
Mike, I hope you still go to simpsons trivia every now and again.
Ted, I'll stop by as soon as I get in town to grab some stuff and leave my keys (but I'm going to start a petition to keep the backdoor key [because I like backdoor entry? {or maybe because I like nested parens}]). I hope you get a roommate soon.
Finally, the place that I am currently staying is great because it is on a hill so you can see into TJ from the second floor, and you can also see the ocean, and it faces west so you get sunsets. Score!
I don't think I've ever seen land as beautiful as that between texas and california. The rock formations are gorgeous, the desert is reallt flat, but then there are the kick ass mountains which just pop up out of nowhere. The three things that really caught my eye on this leg of the trip were:
1. A series of large hills that were so covered with rocks ley looked like trash heaps. I mean there were thousands of little rocks so you couldn't see the actual mountain.
2. When the world went from dirt to sand. I woke up and there were dunes everywhere. They came in three size, wee, not so wee, and friggin' huge. Before there was dirt and brushes, but the brushes were gone. It was cool.
3. The Colorado river runs through the desert. So there was this one shot of two large dunes on either side of this river . . . in the desert . . . the sand went up to the banks of the river which had long reeds on it.
In Austin I found a place that let me pay 10 bucks and play video games for free from 3-9pm. So that's what I did in Austin. I regained my Tekken pride by losing only one match all night and that was because I wanted to go get a coke. Once again I got asked the where do you play question and again I failed to give the correct answer. The people in Austin (at least at that arcade aren't all that great at Tekken. According to the guy who works there I could walk through thier Tekken tournaments and win some cizash, but the tourney isn't until saturday so I can't play. The other cool thing about the free stuff is that I got to play all of the expensive games including Dance Dance Revolution. DDR has this wierd cult of kids (almost all male) who play it . . . and actually try to make it really competitive. Now we can all agree that I might have competitive streak at times, but DDR is a fun game that should only be made competitive if it is in jest. Anyway, I didn't play much because the people were annoying, but I will be playing a lot at challenges when I get back to Atlanta.
Tuscon has a decent night life. Jason and I went to a place called 4th avenue that is a mix of little five points and the highlands. It was nice. Tonight we're going to the gaslight district in San Diego. The driving plans for the remainer of the trip are question mark. We may take a north loop, we may go south. We may leave tomorrow mid-day we may wait until afternoon. What I do know is that I'm really tired after pulling two night shifts in a row and I am going to need more sleep to make it back well.
Hmmm . . . what else? Oh, I've been writing the abbreviations for all the states the truck has been in. California makes it 25. There will be at least two more before the end of the trip (oklahoma and arkansas). After that the truck may just need to die. This whole not shaving thing sucks. My beard really itches, but I told people that I would keep it until I get back. I'm shaving the sucker off wednesday night though, and no more hair for me.
Jeremy, Klonoa 2 is out for the PS2 and is amazing. Jason and I have been playing GBC a lot and have found the second link game (Oracle of Ages). I played Sega Rally in the arcade and it is a lot better with a wheel.
Brad, next time you see Cori and Derek tell them comgrats for me. I used to see them playing volleyball by sixth street the past month.
Mike, I hope you still go to simpsons trivia every now and again.
Ted, I'll stop by as soon as I get in town to grab some stuff and leave my keys (but I'm going to start a petition to keep the backdoor key [because I like backdoor entry? {or maybe because I like nested parens}]). I hope you get a roommate soon.
Finally, the place that I am currently staying is great because it is on a hill so you can see into TJ from the second floor, and you can also see the ocean, and it faces west so you get sunsets. Score!
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