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*Arrival In Montgomery* So the three of us pull up to Montgomery all stoked about getting me a house and finding some furniture and having some beds to sleep on that aren’t costing us $49.99 a night. The first lesson we learned here is that no one really wants to do any sort of activity that might be considered work, posted business hours are only a suggestion as to when you might be able to see someone stop by, and inbreeding is very, very dangerous. We got put up in the dorms for the first few nights because here things are a lot different then in California. When you make an appointment with someone to see a house at, say, 11 a.m. what that actually means is that if you’re lucky that person might show up that day. And if you go out after 2 p.m. you might as well forget it because you are wasting your time, everyone has gone home for the day to take naps (not kidding). Even with these problems we were still able to find a cool place for me to stay in under 3 days and we got our Uhaul turned in on time (I was sad to see it go, well it would have been better if it was on fire when I turned it in anyway.)
OK FOLKS HERE IS THE DEAL, for the past few days and untill schoolstarts i have pracitce from 6:30am until 10:30pm
Yes you read that correctly, I practice ALL DAY with breaks only for lunch and dinner and some ice baths (whew that will cause some shrinkage! ...but good none the less...) Anyway when school starts agian i will have more time to update I know ive kinda been all over and sketchy BUT HEY ITS MY DAMN JOURNAL RIGHT!?!?!?! Ok ok, anyway im having fun, im soar as hell and i miss California! Ill talk to you all soon!
*ARRIVAL AT CARSON CITY* Upon arriving Josh, Gina and I noticed right off that the funnest thing to do in Nevada is to hang out at your local tire dealer and argue about warrenties, milage, and a set of tires you bought in 1956 that are still good because that when tire companies CARED! The following is an actual conversation i overheard while waiting for the restroom (what was that guy doing in there for 20 minutes) :
Old man "Well Martha what do you think, these tires here are $370.00 and these here are $298.00"
Old woman "For $298 do you still get four?"
Old man "Of coarse!"
Old woman "Then i say we get these thats a lot of money you save and i dont see the differance"
Old man "WOMAN! you dont know the first thing about tires! You have to consider the milage and how many ply they are blah blah blah"
Old woman "THEN WHY DID YOU BRING ME OVER HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE???"
Old man "I JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU WHAT I WAS LOOKING AT!"
Old woman "Well i dont know why... i could POSSIBLY understand the complexities of a tire..."
WOW, Nevada... If you love tires and hate your spouse I've heard they have plenty of cheap lots to move in on. That is if you dont mind growing a 3rd arm from all the radiation there.
Fast forward an hour: The old couple is still arguing about tires but we, finally, are on our way. We drive through the night and arrive in Vegas!
*VEGAS* What to say about Vegas, i suppose the first thing i can say is that movies/tv make Sin city look WAY better then it actually is. I realized that Vegas just doesn’t have the same alure it does as when im watching Brooke Burke give a tour on "Wild On" (something about the scenery im sure). Anyway we got to vagas late and walked around to a bunch of hotels. Heres what i have to say about the hotels: THEY ARE ALL A TRICK! On tv the hotels are giant pyramids and roman empires so when i get there i expect to see, well I don’t know maybe a gladiator fight or something. Maybe if there was even the slightest chance I might be attacked by a lion and have to climb the pyramid i would be impressed, but none of that was true. Vegas is all a fake front. No matter what the outside of the casino looks like the inside is ALWAYS the same, you walk into the main gambling room that looks exactly like every other gambling room in every other casino from Tahoe to Reno... and then thats it. Nothing fancy. People said the thing to do was to go see a show, oh sure why don’t i just shell out 50 bucks a head to see grown men prance around in tights, no thank you. As you may have noticed, when we got to Vegas i was tired, and cranky, and it was hot as heck so it was no trouble Leaving Las Vegas, pardon the pun.
So the next day we wake up and walk around Vegas one more time because there was a spot on my body that hadnt yet been drenched in my own sweat, and then we took off for the Hoover Dam.
*HOOVER DAM* AWSOME! The Hoover dam is huge and cool looking and was fun to take a tour of. If any of you reading this get a chance to go check it out I would definantly recommend it, unless your a member of a terrorist organization and staying away just goes without saying. So we hit the dam gift shop and take the dam tour and we are on our dam way... so to speak.
about 90 miles outside of las vegas i see large plooms of smoke coming from, wait is that? YES its US. Our trusty, never let us down, Uhaul has now blow a tire (not the one we got repaired mind you) in the middle of the freaking desert. *sigh* I had seen a police officer about a half mile back on the other side of the highway so i figure he can help us because ginas phone is not working. We unload my pickup and i drive back to the officer.
Me "hey i just got a flat, do you think you can help me?"
Officer dick head "Yeah your about 50 miles from the next town."
Me " ummm ok, well do you know where i could get to a phone?"
Officer dick head "Yeah about 50 miles down the highway is a town."
Ok jackass, you and i both know you have a phone right there in your little squad car that would work just fine for what i need but noooo you dont even offer it you SOB. Jeez, wlecome to Arizona, now bend over so we can stick a cactus in your .... "Thanks for the help sir"
I decide to try a little town that looks like its about 4 miles off the highway i mean, i can see it... how far could it be right. ATTENTION: Objects In Desert Are Nowhere Near You So Dont Even Attempt To Reach Them! I drive and drive and drive towards this town but never seem to get any closer, but i can see that im using gas so i must be getting closer, right? Blah i finally roll up on the "town" and i use that term loosely because this particular town is made solely of trailers. I head over to the main Store/gas station/everything else all in one building that is, you guessed it just one big trailer. I have honestly never seen a gas station that could just bee rolled to wherever you might need gas. Anyway they dont have a phone so i settle for some fix a flat thinking i could hobble into the next town on it. I get back to the Uhaul and dumb 3 can of fix-a-flat into the remaining dually on the driver’s side to see if i can drive with that at least to a phone. So we drive about 10 miles and we come up on a little store/gas station with a pay phone out front. Now i dont understand what in the world these people were even doing here because, A. They had nothing inside to sell. B.The gas pumps had been taken out. And C. The phone was out of order and from what i gathered out of their country jargin it had been from some time back in the late 80s. But they were o-so help full in suggesting a town that was just off the high way up ahead that may have a phone because they had bars. I decide Im going to give it a try. (Side note NEVER BUY A PHONE FROM CINGULAR WIRELESS! Gina’s phone didn’t work the whole time out there but we saw Jeb blabbering away on his AT&T phone which he so kindly decided not to offer to share.) Anyway i get to this little town an it consists of no gas stations, no banks, no stores, no nothing except they have THREE bars. The town is called Choloride, Arizona although it would be better named "place you come to die" But they have a payphone and it works so i call up Uhaul and they tell me i need the address of where im at and a phone number for them to call me back, so i decide to go into one of the bars and ask the address. The bartender comes over and when i ask him the address of the bar he looks at me as if i had just asked him to explain the law of relativity to me.
Bartender "We dont have an actuall address..."
Me "WHAT?!?! where do you tell people the bar is at?"
Bartender "Well its Joe's bar in Chloride!"
Oh silly me how could i have expected them to be able to locate themselves on a map!
So we decide to hobble the uhaul the rest of the 50 miles to Kingston, AZ at 35 mph (that was fun on a higway in the desert) We go to bed and the next afternoon, two tire shops and 3 new tires later we are back on our way! We stopped to see meteor crater, cool. We drove all that day and all throught the night and then again the whole next day to make up for lost time. Josh and I alternated he would sleep and i would drive, then i would get in the back of the Uhaul and sleep on the Futon and he would drive. It worked out well and our system of morse code proved to be quit handy (knock 5 times if your running out of air). That night we arrive at Memphis, home of "The King" and birthplace of 85% of America’s crime.
*Memphis* SUCKED! I wasnt even ok with staying the night in Memphis so we jsut drove through and stayed in a hotel on the outskirts of the town. Memphis looks like a gigantic goverment housing project fell out of the sky and exploded over Elvis's house. Its sick. General concesious, "Lets get the heck out of here!" The next day we get up and head through Nashville "Hey Grand Ol' Opry, love to see you but its dumping rain and no one wants to get out of the truck." and stop at the corvette museum, "cooooool" and then continued on to Lexington.
*Lexington* Not much here but a waffle house which oddly enough only has one type of waffle but 25 types of hash browns *shrug*. Got a hotel and got ready for that last leg of our trip. The next morning we got up and drove into Charleston, Whew trips over, we all have a good time, everybody is happy to be here and its all smiles.
So thats where I am right now Ill update later and tell you guys about finding a house and whatnot so until then see ya and "Ya'll come back now!"
ONLY 10 DAYS LEFT 'TILL I LEAVE FOR WV!!!!! AAAAAHHHH!
