Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Road Trips...

In my short time of being "on the road" with Ryan and Cameron, I've already spent over 40 hours in the car in just 2 trips. It has been so much with playing electronic board games (Taboo, Outburst, and Scattegories), traditional Tri-Bond, 2 truths and a lie, the cities/states/countries game, and of course the best ever hand-made car game by Jill!

Our first trip was to LA to meet with the producer who is recording their next cd. This trip was for "pre-production" work, the actual recording will hopefully begin in the next couple of weeks. On our drive home we went through San Diego and then into western Arizona...the green rolling hills and forever-wide sand dunes were gorgeous!

Driving through San Diego...


This is where one of our favorite bands got their name...


Western Arizona...


The desert as many imagine it to be...


Last weekend we drove through Arizona and Utah to get to Idaho where they opened for Better Than Ezra! It was a great show...sold out to 1200 people! We sold out of all of our cd's and only had 1 t-shirt and two hoodies left at the end of the night...it was crazy cool!

The drive home was BEAUTIFUL!! If anyone plans on taking a cross-country roadtrip, you HAVE to drive through these states! Northern Arizona is all painted canyons...







Utah is beautiful redrocks...







and Idaho has incredible white capped mountains...



On the way home, we actually missed our exit and re-navigated our trip and ended up going up a mountain. At the base we had no snow, by the time we reached the top, we were in about 6' of snow and the road we needed ended up being closed....and we only had 7/10 of a gallon of gas left in the car! Fortunately we found a gas station that happened to accept credit/debit even though they had no one working there. Then we had to drive all the way back down the mountain and about 20 miles back to the exit we had originally missed. It was such beautiful scenery though that no one seemed to mind too much... :)





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