no sleep till brooklyn: day three
SUZANNE'S BIRTHDAY!!!
ok, so last night, after i posted the day's review, suzanne and i decided to mapquest our trip just to make sure we had everything clear. much to our surprise, mapquest informed us that we had approximately 850 miles and 14 hours of driving ahead of us. after much deliberation, we decided that we had no choice, and that we'd have to just wake our asses up early and hit the road. unfortunately though, we had to chop yosemite from the itinerary.
so anyway, this morning we woke up at 4 pacific time, i gave suzanne a beautifully poetic birthday card filled with all my pontifications on our love, our journeys and our future. it was great. i hopped in the shower, let suzanne sleep a bit more and then started packing shit up. we got on the road at 5:20 a.m...awesome right?
we drove for a little while before realizing how hungry we were, so we stopped at the first denny's we could find. i got the moons over my hammy, minus the hammy and suzanne ordered a veggie omelette. while she was in the bathroom i asked the waitress to put a candle in her omelette. when it arrived, i sang, the waitress sang, and the woman sitting behind suzanne (who i had befriended primarily because she heard me asking the waitress for a candle), she sang too. it was cute.
from there, we just kept on driving, and driving, and driving, and driving. we left california, and then we were in nevada. did you know that the last above-ground atomic bomb test was actually done on july 17th? we found that out last night. anyway, while we were driving through nevada we saw a sign that said "low flying aircraft," and then after we saw that, we saw the hillside exploding. well...not really exploding, it was kinda like they were firing blanks at the hill. whatever they were dropping, didn't have explosives in it, but something was causing dust to shoot up from the hill.
we saw this on route 50 going through nevada. route 50 is also known as "the lonliest road in america." this is probably because this was the most desolate, abandoned, nothing-around-for-miles road i've ever been on. it was amazing. tons of mountains, tons of desert shrubbery, tons of nature's majesty.
next came utah...that's right, we drove through california, nevada and utah...we were busy today. did you know that utah is on fire? neither did we, until we were driving through more desert and we realized that everything around us seemed really orange and really smokey. when we finally made it to a town, we asked a gas station attendant if there were wildfires going on. after he laughed at us, he confirmed what we though. apparently there are fires to the west, to the south and to the east of delta, utah. after delta, we only had like another 175 more miles to drive...only. we finally made our way to fabulous provo, utah and into the econo lodge...thank goodness for small miracles.
so, at the end of yesterday the odometer read 512 miles. today it reads 1404 miles. quick math reveals that we drove (and by we, i mean i drove) 892 miles. as stated previously, we started at 5:20 a.m. pacific time and we arrived here at 8:30 p.m. pacific time (9:30 p.m. mountain time) which means we were driving for 15 hours and 10 minutes.
fucking awesome. thank god tomorrow we only have like 6 1/2 hours to drive to durango. we're crossing our fingers and hoping that none of the roads we're taking are closed because they're on fire.
right now we're eating pizza, and after that we're eating leftover cake that we've been lugging around with us for 3 days. i had the foresight to bring birthday candles, and the insight to bring ones that looked like crayons. it wouldn't be my girl's birthday if they were just normal candles. god i love her.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAREST!
ok, so last night, after i posted the day's review, suzanne and i decided to mapquest our trip just to make sure we had everything clear. much to our surprise, mapquest informed us that we had approximately 850 miles and 14 hours of driving ahead of us. after much deliberation, we decided that we had no choice, and that we'd have to just wake our asses up early and hit the road. unfortunately though, we had to chop yosemite from the itinerary.
so anyway, this morning we woke up at 4 pacific time, i gave suzanne a beautifully poetic birthday card filled with all my pontifications on our love, our journeys and our future. it was great. i hopped in the shower, let suzanne sleep a bit more and then started packing shit up. we got on the road at 5:20 a.m...awesome right?
we drove for a little while before realizing how hungry we were, so we stopped at the first denny's we could find. i got the moons over my hammy, minus the hammy and suzanne ordered a veggie omelette. while she was in the bathroom i asked the waitress to put a candle in her omelette. when it arrived, i sang, the waitress sang, and the woman sitting behind suzanne (who i had befriended primarily because she heard me asking the waitress for a candle), she sang too. it was cute.
from there, we just kept on driving, and driving, and driving, and driving. we left california, and then we were in nevada. did you know that the last above-ground atomic bomb test was actually done on july 17th? we found that out last night. anyway, while we were driving through nevada we saw a sign that said "low flying aircraft," and then after we saw that, we saw the hillside exploding. well...not really exploding, it was kinda like they were firing blanks at the hill. whatever they were dropping, didn't have explosives in it, but something was causing dust to shoot up from the hill.
we saw this on route 50 going through nevada. route 50 is also known as "the lonliest road in america." this is probably because this was the most desolate, abandoned, nothing-around-for-miles road i've ever been on. it was amazing. tons of mountains, tons of desert shrubbery, tons of nature's majesty.
next came utah...that's right, we drove through california, nevada and utah...we were busy today. did you know that utah is on fire? neither did we, until we were driving through more desert and we realized that everything around us seemed really orange and really smokey. when we finally made it to a town, we asked a gas station attendant if there were wildfires going on. after he laughed at us, he confirmed what we though. apparently there are fires to the west, to the south and to the east of delta, utah. after delta, we only had like another 175 more miles to drive...only. we finally made our way to fabulous provo, utah and into the econo lodge...thank goodness for small miracles.
so, at the end of yesterday the odometer read 512 miles. today it reads 1404 miles. quick math reveals that we drove (and by we, i mean i drove) 892 miles. as stated previously, we started at 5:20 a.m. pacific time and we arrived here at 8:30 p.m. pacific time (9:30 p.m. mountain time) which means we were driving for 15 hours and 10 minutes.
fucking awesome. thank god tomorrow we only have like 6 1/2 hours to drive to durango. we're crossing our fingers and hoping that none of the roads we're taking are closed because they're on fire.
right now we're eating pizza, and after that we're eating leftover cake that we've been lugging around with us for 3 days. i had the foresight to bring birthday candles, and the insight to bring ones that looked like crayons. it wouldn't be my girl's birthday if they were just normal candles. god i love her.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DEAREST!
posted by R. Peeps at 12:26 AM
2 Comments:
god i KNOW i love her too!! *smacks one on suzanne* dont hate rob, we can share. *wink*
i knew you would do something so microscopically magnificant, it would seem HUUUUUUUUUUGE, for her birthday. :-) awww... isn't detail everything? couldnt ask for anything better than a veggie omelet. COW HUGGERS! :)
and oh yeh, i wanted to thank you guys for the vicarious roadtrip. i'm closing my eyes right now and seeing the hills explode. yeeeh!! thats awesome. :P
now proceed with your adventures and bring me back more details. muuahaha!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SUZE!
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