3,500 mile week

ever wonder what driving from texas to cali looks like? i took a picture every 30 minutes....



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what a freaking trip. dallas to my parents (ft hood), to LA, to Victorville, to my parents, to austin, to my parents, to houston and finally back to dallas in 10 days. all driving. if i spent one more hour in a car i woulda kicked out the fucking windshield.

trip to cali was crazy. our uhaul truck sucked and broke down on several occations. the reason for the breakdowns was the tranny getting hot.... so we would break down in the middle of the desert. sitting in the middle of the desert for over 2 hours in 110º heat sucks balls. on top of that... we couldn't use the AC. we drove for 6-8 hours in 105-118º temps with no AC. the wind coming in the truck literally felt like it was burning your face.

picts from under the bridge we forced the truck to get too so that we'd have some shade. i went on top of the bridge to see where the road went... no where. just a dirt road in both directions going as far as you could see off to the mountains.








here's a random 50 foot baby in the middle of no where arizona...





going through el paso... one side of the freeway is texas, the other is mexico... you can see mexico here...





our first del taco stop (the first one you'll see on the way to cali... between tucson and pheonix). mmm.... we love del taco.





heres all the wind mills near palm springs... theres thousands of them...





finally we're in LA (redando beach to be exact) and we can relax for a couple days...




manhattan beach


i made dad drink a pitcher of pabst... he didn't like it.



so... as some of you know, one of my goals was to pick up my dads old '56 Ford F150. we couldn't get ahold of the guy who has it ahead of time, so we just showed up... he was there, the truck was there, but we were headed back to texas in like 4 hours, so we didn't have time to arrange a truck to take it back to texas. so we left it. i'll go get it later this year i hope.



here's *some* of the other random cars this guy had... lots of potential rides here...