Basketball at Midnight » Road Trip America ‘03

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Kevin — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:43:36 +0000

Fresno, California

Final Trip Map

Kevin — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 01:09:52 +0000

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Kevin — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 01:09:51 +0000

The final drive was begun at around 10:55 local (12:55 central time) with the odometer reading 184,957. I arrived in St Louis in the afternoon, around 3:00 the following day, with an odometer (ok- I need to go check the car.)
Final Stats:
46 Days
12,666 miles
31 States
2 Canadian Provinces
Close enough to Mexico to throw things

So exhausted I can’t look at the Odometer

Kevin — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 18:16:44 +0000

I have returned to Saint Louis in a marathon drive from Las Vegas here. I slept for about 40 minutes in Utah a little after sunset (a beautiful sunset), and then drove straight through until sunrise in Kansas, where I slept for a couple hours before finishing the drive. I am convinced that the drive between the NV-AZ border on I-15 to I-70 into Denver is perhaps the prettiest stretch of interstate in the country. YOu pass through desert canyons that give way to snow-peaked mountains in the distance, then forested mountain and canyonlands, to the hardcore snowy rocky mountains of Colorado. I drove through a snowstorm in the mountains in the pitch of the night. At points I could only see about eight feet in front of the car, and the snow was completely covering the road so I couldn’t see the lines. I ducked in behind a truck and followed them, although I think a lot of that was in the middle of the highway. No one tried to pass me, so it wasn’t much of a problem. It was freezing cold and overcast through Kansas, but I outran the rain (by the time I got to Denver the snow gave way to rain) about 100 miles in. When I crossed the MO border, I checked the air temp as the skies were beginning to clear, and it was warm! St Louis right now is almost hot- much warmer than Las Vegas. I arrived in a fine clear skies a little before sunset.

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Kevin — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:15:58 +0000

LAS VEGAS, BABY

Lost in the Desert

Kevin — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:15:07 +0000

Bartowe, California and the Mojave Desert.

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Kevin — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:14:19 +0000

Sequoia National Park, California

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Kevin — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 18:13:02 +0000

Kings Canyon National Park, California

So natural there were no numbers!

Kevin — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:40:23 +0000

Yosemite National Park, CA

Too gone to see

Kevin — Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:31:55 +0000

Sonoma Valley, CA. Wine Country!