Sunday, September 28, 2008

highlights thus far - good, bad, ugly.

in chronological order:
  • crater lake of course (which, upon arrival was deserted......however, emerging from the car the brisk 30 something degree weather explained having the place to ourselves).
  • eating a burrito the size of my head in Mt. Shasta City (as Dave said, it would have been an appropriate size if we were going to summit Mt. Shasta or bike across Rt. 80....Cliff and Ali take note: Seven Suns Bakery egg burrito)
  • waking up to frost outside the tent on night #1
  • a tempting " all clothing $3.99" sign in Groveland, CA
  • the abandoned campground at Stanislaus National Park (I wasn't sure I had been so scared in a while until nights #3 and 4 and 5....oh and 6 too).
  • Having to grind coffee in a restroom bathroom out of pure desperation - apparently if a National Park is abandoned it has not water OR electricity.
  • Yosemite, Yosemite, Yosemite.
  • Antelope Valley, more specifically Topaz, CA population 100.  Dave wasn't sure but thought Tremors just may have been filmed here.
  • ELKO a must stop!  For those that have not been informed, Elko is the home of cowboy poetry....and apparently there are words that rhyme with varmant.
  • Coffee out of a styrofoam cup.  Need I say more.
  • Surviving the odometer turning 131313.
  • oh...and tonight, I got to view a real life skeleton of a woman on a dining room table.  Pictures to come.

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