Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Road Trip

We took an epic road trip. Here was our route:


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I tried to keep a video blog, but only remembered to do it three times:







And we also took a bunch of crappy pictures.
The trip was really fun - way more fun than these pictures and videos indicate. It went by really fast, and we got to see lots of good friends and family along the way. The best part or the trip was New Mexico. The worst was the first leg of the drive - it was long as hell.

Highlights of the trip (all a far second to the awesome hospitality of Jay, Laura, Jacob and Margaret, Anu and Sameer, Sunil, Ben and Melissa):

  • seeing Ratatat at The Filmore in San Francisco
  • staying in the "Coming to America" room at Planet Hollywood
  • the Grand Canyon (exceeded expectations)
  • staying with a cattle rancher/doctor (and his awesome wife, who owns/runs a meat processing plant) in New Mexico, and seeing first-hand how farms and small business in America are being destroyed by rising gas/food/energy prices
  • the William J. Clinton Library in Little Rock
  • the Stax Museum of American Soul in Memphis
  • Lexington, KY; it reminded me a lot of Utica (the motherland)

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