Well, lack of internet access and time has slowed down my blogging. Sorry about that. I’ll recap our travels and make more detail posts over the next few days. We left Albuquerque on Sunday in search of The Grand Canyon, stayed two nights and then headed north.

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Next we drove through Monument Valley on the way to Moab, UT. I think I could have stayed at Moab for a week or two with everything to do (more on this later). We did visit Arches National Park while there.

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We left on Wednesday to head back east. We took I-70 through Denver and made it 785 miles to Salina, KS (can you say the middle of nowhere flatlands?)

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Thursday we drove 839 miles to Columbus. Bleh, too much motoring in the Mini. Anyway, more details later.

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Lots of photos today. Besides, do you really want to read my writing or look at my photos? You should really check out Gretchen’s blog for more about our trip as well.

Anyway, we stopped in Amarillo, Tx for the night and went to The Big Texas for lunch, a place Woody would be in heaven. Needless to say they had very large steaks, including a 72oz. steak that if you could eat in an hour you got for free. The record holder did it in 8 mins and 53 seconds. Um, yuck. Here’s my 8oz, the smallest they had.

Moving on from having way too much meat for lunch was this sight just west of Amarillo off 40.

Well, to be honest I was planning on stopping at the famous Cadillac Ranch anyway. But the view is pretty odd in the middle of nowhere Texas. Here’s more of my photos of the 10 old Cadillacs stuck nose first into the ground. They are continually changing as almost everyone adds a little more pain to the finish. No rust here.

Once into New Mexico I had to take a few shots of an abandoned church at one of our stops.

We finally arrived at Moe’s Place in Albuquerque, NM around 5:00 local time. Time for laundry and a few days break. Moe is thrilled.

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So the Mini to doing well for us on the road. Good gas mileage and even a great ride over Oklahoma’s crappy roads. So, lots of photos of the Mini today We are in Amarillo, Tx today and are going to go see Cadillac Ranch today. Then it’s on to Albuquerque, NM and see Moe.

Mini Camping in Petit Jean State Park in AK.

Mini at a stop before Oklahoma City.

Mini at our lunch stop at a cool little Irish pub in the middle-of-nowhere AK.

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We made it to Nashville to visit Gretchen’s aunt and uncle for the night. The settings on the auto-camera got messed up, so there won’t be any photos between KY and Nashville. The above is from NC somewhere. I’m now mounting the camera in the back seat facing toward the side. A bit more interesting hopefully. Next up, we are heading toward Little Rock, AK. Not a bad drive for the day. Hopefully we’ll find some internet in Oklahoma City when we stop there on Wednesday.

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Kinda. We drove from Raleigh, NC to Winchester, KY on Saturday morning. Mileage on the Mini when starting….

We are dropping Lucy and Scout off at Gretchen’s aunt’s house while we drive out west. Lucy loves chasing the cats and dogs and Scout gets to visit with her mom, dad and brother. Needless to say the dogs are not a big fan of the car. Though Scout loves to try to look out the front window and cuddle with Lucy.

I’m also working on another movie, kinda a stop action for the entire trip of the view out the front window. Here’s the rig set up in the car. It’s on a timer that shoots a photo every minute. I can also shoot extra shots when I want as well. working fairly well so far.

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Ok, reason I haven’t been blogging much is because we have finally officially put our house up for sale. So, buy my house, here’s the listing. Gretchen and I have been running around cleaning and getting the house ready. I was even outside mowing the lawn in the rain.

To add to everything Gretchen and I are taking off in the Mini and driving across the U.S.A. to the Grand Canyon and back. We leave in the morning and who knows when we’ll be back. We are stopping in KY, Nashville, possibly Dallas, Albuquerque, to the Grand Canyon, then back through Utah (watch out for polygamists!) to Denver and somehow back to Ohio to check houses out in NE Ohio. I’ll be making updates with photos along the way.

So…..stay tuned damnit.

Who doesn’t enjoy some free music?  NIN is giving away their newest album, The Slip, for free on their site.  Very nice give it up to Trent and the boys for this one.

Download it here.

ya ok. product seems to make the world go round. check out the comments on the last post. everything is always brought to you by someone now. AT &T brings you this concert, or sporting event or a trip to some place you never heard of. I seem to be about product today. me, at least it my local brew pub around the corner. brewery, actually. my band had a show in Elon University today, outside, it was nice to place in the sun for a change. although seeing my cymbals in real light…wow, they are actually green. anyway. I wore my new shirt from Big Boss, the brewery 1.6 miles from my house (exactly a 5K there and back) for Hell’s Belle, a damn nice Belgian Blond they started selling in bottles locally. Figured I’d support the locals. I get home, actually have some in the fridge and pour it into my Big Boss glass.

WTF? When did I become to product centric?

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