Day 7

Calibound has reached cali. We've beached it, surfed it, and strutted our stuff on the streets. Yesterday we beached it all day and the surf was pretty slow down at Doheny beach. It was more of lake Doheny, the waves were pretty much nonexistent. But they eventually picked up and we got some good quality hours in. Next was Chronic Taco thee best taco place in the world. They make these ginormous burritos and awesome fish tacos. After the beach we played some basketball and hung with the neighborhood kids for the rest of the night, party animals. Today we drove to VIVAAAA LASSSS VEGGASSS!!!! Short car ride today only 4 and half hours YAY!! Now if you've never driven from Cali to Las Vegas let me warn you now fill up on gas before you leave cause there is absolutely nothing in between. But once you enter Vegas your jaw just drops, the sights are so cool to see. It's like seeing all the mayor cities in the world all brought together into one. We've got New York, Paris, even M&M world it's pretty awesome if you ask me. And M&M world is not only one floor but FOUR FLOORS. Pretty Crazy. Now our hotel is absolutely amazing. We're staying at MGM Grande,the signature. Talk about jaw dropping. This place is ridiculous, it has over 30 floors, which was really fun when Amber decided to make the lights in the elevator look like a Christmas tree, making us stop at almost EVERY floor in between our room on the 22 floor. Thanks Amber, at least there was no farting on this elevator ride unlike the one in the coca-cola store. Yeah, you don't wanna know! Now we're about to go to the pool and then go out on the strip once it turns dark. The lights and water show I hear are one of the best parts. Not to mention the lion exhibit INSIDE our hotel, RAWR!! So far only $7.00 has been lost in gambling money, but seeing the blackjack tables and craps tables are tubular dude (I've picked up some surfer talk ever since I've been out here). Can't wait to try out some of my other accents; more to come...

Day 6

Ahh cowabunga dude. We're surfin' it up today. Last night we hit the pool and again dad tried to take away my title but don't worry it didn't happen. We've been hanging at the house and we had homemade pancakes for breakfast!! Home-cooked food after almost a week of fast food is paradise. We'll be at Doheny today and then headed to Vegas tomorrow. Oh yeah this is happenin'. We'll be live tomorrow and i'll get to write and more to come...

Day 5

Wow, what a short day comparatively. We finally made it to the west coast!! After yesterday we were pretty exhausted so we called it a night after quickly jumping into the pool and playing a quick round of beach volleyball. Of course I won, I mean if you ask the other party (Terrence aka daddy-o) he might debate something different but all in all we know who truly won, mwah! We crashed in some pretty comfy beds if I say so myself. Breakfast was quite tasty, omlets are always a personal favorite. Then we packed up and headed out. Our trip today took about 5 and half hours, YAY for short car rides. Then we made it here. The weather has changed big time, the difference between here and Texas is awesome as in you can actually step outside without dripping in sweat. Now we've just been chilling at the house and Amber and I just got back from a bike ride.
Song of Today: Chicken Fried by Zac Brown Band (Zac Brown Band is holding strong with 2 top songs this week)
More to come...

Slideshow Attempt

Hey everyone,
So I tried to get a slideshow up and running but since technology and I aren't on the best of terms it's not being very friendly. It's cutting off all the pictures but if you look at the picture to the right --> underneath is a button that says "make your own" and then next to that is another button which is partically cut off. You want to click on the partically cut off one and then another window should pop up and then click "view album" and then some pictures should show up. There's not a lot there but I will hopefully get more up soon. Sorry, I'll try being nicer to my computer and maybe it'll return the favor. More to come...

Night #4

Longest travel day EVER. After 12 hours in the car your butt starts to get a little numb. Yeah you heard me right, 12 HOURS!!!! Lucky for us we picked up two hours today so we get to sleep in a little tomorrow, YAY for sleep. So it's currently 11:15 p.m. eastern time but in Phoenix, AZ it's only 8:15 p.m. The majority of today was spent in the car and consisted of trying to find a cooperative radio station. But in the middle of nowhere it's a little hard. Each time a good song came on static would start to take over, so the iPod was plugged in for a while, props go out to Rachel for setting up our song lists. If it's on the list, it's on the list...sure Rachel :)
Two major non-family shout outs go to our buddy Jimmy Cryspin who sponsored our hotel room and dinner at the very lovely Embassy Suites right in the city. You so totally rock dude!! The view is pretty killer; we open our front door to over look the pool that is surrounded by palm trees. And the mountains that line the city look like a backdrop from the movies, postcard perfect.
Second shout out goes to KNIX 102.5 FM best country music north of Tucson and hopefully will lead us in Cali. Representin!!
We made it for happy hour at the hotel and had complimentary (our new favorite word) hors d'oeuvres and drinks. You should see the mustaches on some guys in Arizona they are pretty funky lookin'. Por ejemplo [this is me practicing my Spanish, I mean we did see Mexico today, well we could see the fence that tries to keep immigrants out] : so we're sitting at a table & a man sitting at the end of the bar has a pretty bushy mustache, but it's not only bushy, it comes to the corners of his mouth and is then twisted, looking almost gelled, up at the ends. Like those French chefs you see in the movies. Haha it was...different.
No interesting road kill stories for today but we did have to go through an inspection check point, to make sure we weren't smuggling anything or anyone. Just to make sure no one would be confused we turned up our country music and sang along; we didn't want them thinking we were illegal or anything so we thought the country music might help.
Song of the Day: Sounds Like Life to Me by Darryl Worely
Tonight's a relaxing night, maybe hitting the pool later on but sweet dreams and more to come...

Day 4

Spending the night in central Texas last night was interesting to say the least. But it’s not a road trip without some adventurous stories right? We got up and ate breakfast with some former military people who couldn’t help but complain about our government. Coolest thing ever: waffle maker in the shape of Texas, so I ate Texas this morning. This morning we entered into western Texas and hit the only point of interest for about 200 miles, Davey Crockett’s monument. It’s the only thing in town and when I say only thing I mean ONLY THING. The town is basically surrounding this little monument. Now we’ve just been driving and we still have a ways to go before El Paso. So far no armadillo sightings :( but we still have New Mexico. We hit the 80 mph road (80 mph optional, give or take a few 20, it’s just joke mom) and it’s pretty sweet. You can see for miles in either direction. Just plateaus, mountains, and valleys. Ain’t no mountain high, ain’t no valley low, ain’t no river wide enough baby to keep me from getting to you.
Total miles of day 3: 667.4
Total as of 12:05 eastern time: 1921.5 miles
More to come…

Night #3 Fiasco

Things didn’t exactly go as planned, but then again they never really do. Here’s our story. We were all set to camp out tonight, called ahead to a couple of campsites to make sure everything was on the up and up. Even asked to see if other people would be camping out too, just to make sure we wouldn’t be the only losers sleeping outside on a hot summer night in Texas. Everything was looking pretty good. The two campsites we scoped out had swimming pools, riverside views, flushing toilets :-), a pavilion, and nice shady areas with hopes of a nice cool breeze. We take our exit and type the address into our GPS and start following our British lady’s accented directions. Let me remind you it’s already 9:30 and the sun has already set (which by the way was beautiful to watch. The sun set right over the hills and half the sky was still blue with clouds while the other half was turning a light golden, orange. I’ve seen the sun set on the ocean, but this kind of sunset is something completely different. It was slower and the colors were entirely different) so it is pretty dark out. We’re now off the exit and following these curvy back roads. It’s just the road, and mounds of sand on either side. We’re the only ones on the road and not gunna lie it was a little erie. So we follow the directions to the end of the road and then we see a sign that says “end of paved road”, WHAT?!?! So we take our assigned left onto a road and then we spot another sign that says “dead end”…are you kidding?? Ha I wish we were. It was a long gravel road with bushes on either side, it looked like something out of those scary movies when the family is driving down the road and all of a sudden they get a flat tire and have to pull over oh and then members of the family just start disappearing, what a coincidence. So trying to avoid as many scary movie scenarios as possible we quickly booked it out of there, having to cross a one lane bridge blocked off by construction cones. We pulled into a nearby town, gassed up the car and asked where the other campsites were located. The directions seemed easy enough, so we found our first campsite of the night. The State Park in Junction, TX, wide open to ANYONE. There was no gate on this campsite and there was also NO OTHER CAMPERS but there was some local wildlife, deer. “There had to be a hundred thousand, maybe even a million. It’s gunna take hours before we get this cleared”(Name that movie).
Tonight was the night for deer cause we saw at least 50. We tried to see if we could get some luck at another campsite the lady at the gas station told us about only about a mile away. We found it, again more deer, and it was closed for the night but there was a late parking area but then you had to pay a ridiculous amount pretty much the same as the nearby motel, Lazy T’s. So we tried ANOTHER campsite. This one was five miles away and this was the creepiest one of all. We followed the signs that lead us into the park. Now we’re in the park and we are on some remote roads, way far off any exit, and the first sign we spot is one that says “watch out for snakes”. Now just pause a second and let that sink in. CREEPYYYYY!! Why would you wanna camp in the middle of the woods where you know it’s basically going to be a snake haven? Despite the sign we continue to drive down this rocky road (Rachel’s favorite ice cream). There’s another wooden sign that says park headquarters 1.5 miles. We continue to drive. Along this mile and half we were chased by deer, followed by some jack rabbits, and even had a standoff with a raccoon that had no intention of backing down. Reached the headquarters and the parking lot was empty, and no lights on inside the “headquarters” if that was even what it truly was. Not to mention there wasn’t any other campers in sight. We turned the car around and exited the park asap. Now the night isn’t so young anymore and the wildlife seems to be even more abundant. Next we plug the GPS in and try to find anything even semi close to where we were. Oh wow, gee how convenient the GPS can’t find satellite. Great. We drive and eventually get some signal. So our camping experience didn’t go as planned and we end up spending the night at a hotel. But let me just describe to you our hoteling experience. So you know that Verizon wireless commercial where the guy goes into the hotel and the guy behind the counter looks kind of creepy and tells the man that he won’t get any signal, trying to scare the guy off. Then the customer explains that he has Verizon so he can get signal anywhere, and the guy behind the counter hands him the keys and says, “Well…towels are kind of scratchy.” We located that hotel without any signal. Let me just say this, I didn’t go into the bathroom without my shoes on.
Traveler trip of the day: Always use your military discount, best price in town!
More to come…