Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Break Week 4

My time spent in Dallas was pretty relaxing. Didn't do too much site seeing. Went to downtown Dallas to grab some food and drove around a little. Mostly it was just family time, a lil bowling, football and my step-mom's birthday.

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Just a little bit of dirt from the snow on the way there.

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The Trails of Frisco

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Highland Park

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Downtown Dallas

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Who needs a bungee cord when you have Roscoe around.

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Trench-coat Nico getting ready to bowl.

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Step mom Maggie blowing out her bday candles.

On Monday around 10 PST I started on my journey back to the West Coast. This time I decided to drive back going along the south route. I took it easy on the drive back. Seeing as I got a speeding ticket on the way there I didn't want to get one on the way back. I didn't have a radar detector this time so I was pushing my luck as it was. The drive to El Paso was pretty boring. That took about 10 hours. The drive from El Paso to Pasadena was looooooong. 12 hours to be exact! I was beat by the time I got back to LA. Its good to be back home. Now I can start my new year.

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Sunset on the first day going back.

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Did I mention I love sunsets on the road.

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Juarez. Be careful don't get your dome cut off.

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Land of the Zonies aka terrible drivers!

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Flat roads with lots of nothing around.

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Word!

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Um drive on the right pass on the left.

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Lordsberg looks godforsaken.

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While you can't see it here. This stretch of the trip looked like an overdone HDR image. Amazingly beautiful!

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Sunset day 2

there
According to Mapquest 20 Hours and 48 mins, 1496 miles there. This actually took about 28 hours with a 4 hour stop for sleep.

back
21 hours 20 mins, 1449 miles back. Took about 22 hours