Blog Two: The Blog Has Landed

This post was written August 25, 2009 around 11 PM.

I really wanted to post it then, but I didn't have the time to proof read it. Even now I have done a shitty job. The next post will be tomorrow because I need sleep so much I don't feel like sacrificing it for writing for you chumps and chumpettes.

Thank you for your readership of my blog. Please keep reading.


So day three here on the road to Chicago. So I imagine you'd be pretty upset that you had to wait an extra day for an entry if you had had to wait that long and not actually a few hours.

So Monday we planned to leave around 9, but we ended up getting stuck in town till around 10:30, but, really, no one really cares about that. What really important is the melted ice we found under the car. It was all like “hey I'm melted,” except for the fact that it can't talk because it's not a life form. Of course all known life forms are part water so we could really perhaps count it for like three fifths of a life-form or something like that. Though to me it seems wrong to call something three fifths of anything.

Anyway that was pretty exciting, but not quite as exciting as the awesome road that we drove on in Nevada towards Arizona. This road had miles upon miles of smooth, cool (like the Fonz) driving filled with fun for the whole car, which you should know if you read the last post was just the two of us.

Soon we arrived in Arizona, possibly the most interesting state we've driven through so far, but I'll get back to that.........now. So Arizona started out how you might picture Arizona, a desert, but soon, it opened up into a world of imagination, better known as a forest. So the forest was extending on and on forever in all directions as we passed by it traveling at speeds of which ancient man only dreamed, also there were also lots of beware of elk signs. Soon though we became hungry, and decided to stop in Flagstaff, a town full of mystery and wonder, or that had a really cool shopping district with some interesting places. After visiting this town I contemplated one day possibly moving there, but I decided I should save those thoughts for later when I'm getting kicked out of the house.

So we departed for Albuquerque with me now at the helm, and we were now on our way to Meteor Crater. It was about 15 minutes before we arrived there when I was informed that we had to pay $15 to enter to see the park. I wasn't sure I wanted to spend that much on an attraction, especially since I'm leaving for Japan in less than two weeks now, which actually made my stomach jump a bit, but I think I'm fine now....now where was I.....hmmmmm.....ah yes, so we ended up going and it was cool to see the impact crater. We learned about meteors and such, but ended up having to leave earlier than I would have liked, but we had to get to Albuquerque. So we booked it from there, and by that I mean drove the speed limit because neither of us can afford a ticket. It was a very pleasant drive through Arizona with very nice scenery.

So now new paragraph time so I guess I should talk about New Mexico. Well New Mexico to me looked like when you open a closet with no light in it, primarily because when we got there it was night time, but there was still enough light to see the constant warnings of elk spattered across the highway. We ended up not getting into the hotel until 1 AM local time, no bueno. The desk clerk gave us free water and energy drinks which was awesome, but we decided to go straight to bed, despite the fact he desperately wanted us to keep him company. Like really desperately even though he insulted my shirt.

So in the morning we got going around 8:30 heading straight for the Midpoint Cafe, which is located on Route 66 halfway along the route Chicago and LA. We went inside and were treated to a wonderment of memorabilia, and with that note I think it might be time for another episode of “Tom! Don't eat that!” Now it really is a bit of a stretch to claim that I shouldn't eat what I had here, so you'll have to bear with me. I decided to order the Texas-Sized Hamburger. Now this doesn't necessarily sound like something I wouldn't eat until I explain some stuff to you. I pretty much ate burgers with only ketchup till around my freshman year of college. Now I know what you're thinking, “Kill the boy!” but I assure you I am not a vampire, and I have changed my ways. Today, which I guess now was yesterday, I would have to say I took that pretty far by not only having a burger with more on it than that, but not having a burger with ketchup on it at all and actually having it with three ingredients I generally don't like, pickles, tomato, and mustard. Well the burger, which had those ingredients plus lettuce and onion turned out to be one of the best burgers I've ever had in my life. It filled my stomach and my delight gage, which is rarely filled and only a select few know how to check it in the first place, yes you should be quite jealous. The burger also came with chips instead of fries, or for our British readers, crisps instead of chips. Though I enjoy generally fries more than chips, they fit the meal quite well. At the end I had a three berry cobbler which unfortunately didn't come it a shoe. I mean come on! How can you name a dish after a shoemaker and not make it shoe themed at all!! Anyway it was quite delicious. Bottom line readers, I would say if you're traveling I-40 or Route 66, this place is a must stop. It was the best food on our trip so far, and the burger only cost $7. Also if you're willing to brave the rattle snakes, they'll even tell you where you can dig up some original Route 66 signs.

After that we went to the Cadillac Ranch. There will be pictures at some point and that's all I have to say about that.

It's late, I'm tired of writing now, so I'll basically summarize thing quickly now. If you have a problem with this, well too bad because you're not here right now to tell me otherwise, what's your problem?

So basically we drove through Texas, more Elk signs, it wasn't at nice as New Mexico and Arizona, don't mess with Texas was on a government sign, laughter.

Now, we're in Oklahoma, we don't like it much here, roads and GPS made us angry here, nothing too interesting to see, more elk stuff.

Bed time. This has either been posted in the morning or the following night.

Off to St. Louis.