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Fri, 29 Oct 21 1:26 PM | 25 view(s)
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Most everyone here is appreciative of the time you take to post some pics of things many of us will never see. This trip you and mrs. De accomplished was nothing short of a spectacular journey of sightseeing across our nation and back again on the ground.

the vast majority of people in America will never experience that including myself. I am too old now to even attempt it.
So, THANK YOU for sharing so much of what parts of the country look like many will not see. I enjoyed looking at ALL of them..
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Congrats to mrs. De for putting up with ya on that lengthy journey! I'm sure that you guys both enjoyed the moments and places as well!




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Now that the trip is over...
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Fri, 29 Oct 21 5:44 AM 		Msg. 25827 of 60008

Aside from friends and relatives we visited, here are the things I'll remember from this trip:


The 72 oz steak challenge at the Big Texan restaurant in Amarillo TX. Eat it in an hour and it's free. Otherwise, it costs 72 bucks. No, we didn't attempt it or even go to the restaurant, but we passed numerous billboards on the highway and saw the place.















A phone call from a friend as we parked the car at a casino in Reno, NV. He told us about "Let's Go Brandon" - which I had not heard of. Within ten minutes, I saw a guy at Circus Circus with a "Let's Go Brandon" shirt on. LOL...

The night spent sleeping in Evanston, WY. The low was 28°. FORTUNATELY, we had sleeping bags. I'm really happy neither of us had to get up that night to use the facilities.

The guy in the Hillcrest (the gay district of San Diego) bus stop who was wearing a shirt, shoes, and NOTHING else. Mrs. De noticed him first. She says he looked to be about 8 months pregnant. "He had the ultimate beer belly going on." I figger he thought that if he couldn't see willy, no one else could either.

The guy we saw at a crosswalk, coming toward us, also at Hillcrest, CA. Every five steps he squatted like he was taking a dump, stayed down for a few seconds, then rose and continued. It took three or four squats for him to get across the street. He was also talking nonstop. "Starship to Underground!" is the part I remember...

Near Gallup, NM, I saw a black dog ambling along in the median between the East and Westbound lanes. "Oh, crap!" I said - which woke my wife. I told her what I'd seen. We chatted about it a little and she said she wanted to go back and try to rescue him. We got ourselves turned around and drove 4 miles back and she saw him. I pulled over on the left (the fast lane side) which really ticked off a truck that was behind me. I got out and called to him. The dog looked at me, froze, and then sprinted back in the direction from which he'd come and we lost sight of him in the brush. We drove six miles up the highway to the next turnaround point and started coming back. Nearly SEVEN miles down the highway, my wife saw him again, no longer in the median. Now he was on the right side of the westbound traffic. We pulled over again - but this time to the right. My wife thought she'd have better luck with him than I had had so she walked a quarter mile back and did her best but he reacted the same way, freezing for a moment, and then sprinting off in the opposite direction. Oh well. We tried. We called animal control to report a dog running loose on the highway and then continued with our trip.

My wife says that had she caught the dog and found him to be collarless, she'd have wanted to keep him. I think that would have made the rest of the trip a real headache and am glad it didn't happen... 'cuz I agree we'd have kept him. It had been just two months, you see, since our own little black dog died....


Just after the California Agricultural Inspection stop (which resemble toll booths) we came to the town of Felicity, CA - POPULATION 2. We found that really amusing. Now that we're home and researching Felicity, we regret not stopping. It turns out that Felicity is a really interesting little place. Here's a link describing the history and things to see in what may be America's smallest, strangest town:
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/03/felicity-california-center-of-world.html






As we entered each new state, we attempted to take photos of the "Welcome to XXX" signs and stop at the first rest area - to pose and maybe learn a little about the state. Many states go all out with elaborate signs (you saw what Arkansas did in that video I posted) and Welcome Centers that are practically museums. But entering California - the richest state in the Union - from Yuma, we found a pathetic little sign that looked like it had been used for target practice. A rest area two miles further was the worst BY FAR of any rest area on the entire trip. It was nothing but a pulloff with a toilet in the median between east and west bound traffic. There was no flag, no sign, nothing. There wasn't even a mention of the fact that it was in California so we had nothing to pose with at this horrid little place that is the first impression many people get of 'The Golden State.' Sad.




A remarkable Arizona sunset straight ahead even as a thunderstorm raged to our left. I didn't get any pics showing lightning, but here's a nice one of that sunset. You can see a little virga on the extreme left of the shot.







Little America. Some of you might know it. It's just an extremely large hotel and truck stop in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, but it struck me as exotic the first time I was there at age 5 and the memory and emotion lingers. I remember the ice cream cones. And lights. And SO many trucks. It was all a big deal once upon a time. Anyway, it's nice to see that something I remember from that far back still lives. A lot of the other places I loved as a kid no longer do.

BTW, these were the 10th and 11th times I've crossed the U.S. by car. Seemed like a big deal the first time, while moving with my family from Cambria CA to Niagara Falls NY. Still seems like an accomplishment today.

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