08/09/98 1:23pm PDT San Diego, CA Greenville SC to San Diego CA 3132 miles 14 days 11 campgrounds 4 mechanics 1 belt squeal that still won’t go away 0 air conditioners And some other numbers that have stuck with me: 20 Tour Updates 115 degrees in the Mojave 56 degrees in the Caverns 6 rolls…
Tonight’s update brought to you by the numbers 145 and 115, and the letters A and C. You’ll get it later. Well, New Mexico and Arizona had both been nothing like what I had expected: flat, brown, and hot. Why should California go according to plan? The bad part is, I thought California was going…
My computer thinks it’s two thirty in the morning. I can’t say I blame it, that’s about what it feels like to me, too. That’s what it would be if I was at home. Turns out it’s still eleven thirty last night here. Arizona doesn’t believe in Daylight Savings Time. Except on the Navajo reservation. …
Although I did, in fact, stand on the corner for a moment, just to be able to say I’d done it, right now I’m sittin’ in a Denny’s in Winslow, Arizona. Let Glenn Frey write about _that_… Embarrassingly enough, this is not the first time Denny’s has come to my culinary salvation. I suppose it’s…
You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now, wouldn’t you? Heading out the 40 I am, feeling pretty good about life (Santa Rosa provided me with two of the best meals I’ve had on this trip. A spanish omelette for breakfast, cheese enchiladas for dinner, both in family-type restaurants where the staff knew just…
First of all, two apologies. The first goes to everyone looking for an update when there wasn’t one here. I made two abortive attempts to write one yesterday, but hated them. We’ll talk more about this later. Secondly, I’d like to publicly apologize to New Mexico for callously clumping it with Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas…
In what seems to be shaping up as a trend, I gave a mechanic a fistful of money today and he failed to actually fix the problem. I mean, it’s nominally better than it was. Now the roaring and being limited to 45mph is interspersed with short stretches where I can go as fast as…
Roberta Verona’s (RV, get it? Hey, don’t blame me, Susie and Bill did it. Susie mostly, I’m betting) health status is still unknown, and that has caused some serious changes in my plans. First of all, my main goal is now to get to San Diego on time, because I’m meeting Jonathan’s plane out there…