Day 38

Day 38 we drove from Kansas City to a town outside of Bloomington ID. The drive was uneventful, and shortly after arriving at the campground, we went for a swim at the pool. Later that evening we drove to Wall-Mart and Noah bought some DVDs for us to watch. When we got back to the campsite, it was late, but we couldn't sleep. To kill time we sat in the car and watched a movie. After that Noah went to the tent to sleep and I slept i the car.

Day 37

Day 37 we drove from Denver to Kansas City MO. It was both one of our most eventful an uneventful days. While the view from the car was very dull, we did get pulled over by the cops twice. The first time I was driving and got pull over and ticketed for speeding, and the second time Noah got pulled over but got off with a warning. When we finally made it to Kansas City we stayed in a KOA. The place was nothing special, and was hot and a little humid. We did eventually fall asleep and slept in until 10 AM.

Day 18 video

Day 36

We decided to stay in Denver for an extra day today and headed out this morning before 9 to see the sights. We went down to 16th street mall which is a long stretch of shops built on either side of a road where the are only free shuttle buses driving. The shops stretch for over 10 blocks, and seemed to be pretty good. We walked around and shopped for a while not buying anything, and then went to the Cheesecake Factory for lunch. The food was good and very amply portioned. When we got back to the car after lunch, we noticed that the tire was low and decided to fill it on the way to our next stop, the Coors Brewery (we think that it had never been filled completely the other day and that is why it was low). Anyways, we drove to Golden Colorado where the brewery was and took the tour. We saw many people quaffing the free beer from the tour. People were able to get 3 full sized classes of any Coors beverage. After the tour we went back to the KOA and I am washing my clothes while David does computer stuff. Tomorrow we leave to go to Kansas City where we already have KOA reservations.

Day 35

We drove all night, and arrived in Bolder around 9 in the morning. The drive was long and tiring, but it was nice to get it out of the way. When we got to Bolder we drove around checked out the campus and then tried to figure out where to spend the night. We looked at a hostel but it was going to be too expensive so we ended up getting reservations at a KOA about an hour away. We did all this at a coffee place with free internet. After that we went back to campus to take a tour. While Noah was on a walking tour I noticed that our back right tier was low on air an put on the spare fearing a puncture. After I got in touch with our dad he suggested that I may have just unseated the bead while parallel parking. We went over to a gas station where we filled it up with air and poured water on it to see if there was an obvious leak. There wasn't so we put the original tire back on the car. After this we drove to the KOA where we swam and hot tubbed and then went to a cheap restaurant across the street for dinner. After dinner we watched a movie on my computer and then went off to bed. It thundered and lightninged in the night, and rained a great deal, but our tent seems to do well in the rain and only leaked a little on the bottom of the tent, and mostly on Noah's side so it wasn't so bad.

Day 34

Day 34 we drove from Flagstaff AZ to Zion National park in UT. The drive was uneventful. On the way to Zion we stopped at the north rim of the Grand Canyon. It was really cool. We walked around and took pictures for a little while, and then we returned to the car to head towards Zion. Zion was nothing special. It was cool to look at, but not that great. When we got to the campsite we were hot and decided to try swimming in the river near the campsite. The river turned out to be very muddy and very rocky. We didn't swim for very long before heading back to the tent and reading and playing cards. We tried to go to sleep in the evening, but it was too hot, and the moon was too bright, so we decided to push forward and get a bunch of driving done. We left the park around 11 in the evening and headed for Bolder CO.

Day 33

So we started out in Phoenix this morning after a very filling breakfast at Chompie's. We had a fantastic time with the people we were staying with and were very great full for a spot in their beautiful home. Today was one of the shortest drives so far on the trip, only a couple hours. Our goal was to end up in Flagstaff where we had reservations at a KOA. We only drove an hour to begin with before stopping at "Slide Rock State Park" for a swim. We had so much fun. We jumped off cliffs and swam down rapids. Pictures and video from Slide Rock will be coming soon. Afterwards we had an hour drive to the KOA and got there around 6pm. Tomorrow we will see the Grand Canyon.

ATV day video

Here is video of us ATVing at Pismo Dunes.

Day 31

Today we drove to Phoenix AZ


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Day 30

Day 30 we hung out with my friend Tanya

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Day 29

Today we went out and visited Beverly Hills.


We got up late and hung around the house for a while. We eventually went out and drove to Beverly Hills. There we walked around and tried to find a Starbucks. On the way to the Starbucks, we passed a cupcake store called Sprinkles which had a massive line outside the door. The other thing we saw was that all the car rental places rented out really expensive cars. We saw Bentleys and Rolls Royces and even a Ferrari. After we got Starbucks, we went back to the house and had a great dinner.

Day 28

We drove from San Diego to LA. We got up and started packing the car around 10AM. We cleaned out the trash so that we could fit all three of us in the car, and then we hit the road. We stopped at Starbucks and Jamba Juice on our way out of town. We got to LA early in the afternoon and hung around the house for a while. Later that evening, we went out for Chinese food with the family we were staying with. After dinner we were freaking out b/c we were about to go for our interview with Dr.Drew and Stryker. We drove over to the Westwood one studio around 8 and went to Wendy's to kill some time before we were to be at the studio at 9:30. The interview went well and after words we got to sit in the studio and watch the recording of the radio show Loveline. We got back to the house around 12:30 and went to bed.

Day 27

This morning we woke up around 9 and went to breakfast at Pipes with the family we are staying with. We then went to Ponto Beach which was beautiful with crystal clear water. We spent a few hours there body surfing and boogy boarding, which was nice since we have never had access to boogy boards. We broke off from the Everett's and and went to opening day at Del Mar horse track. We were able to catch the last three races. There were many short dresses, crazy hats, and drunk idiots. Joining the spirit of the track I had David put in two bets for me. I bet $7 on Glimmering Pete in race 8 of 9...he came in second to last, but I could tell he was putting forward is best. The odds for that race was 1:10. For race 9 I bet $3 on La Swing. The starting odd were 1:8 but ended up being 1:15. The race started out looking good for me. La Swing came out of the box fast and lead the race for a majority of the time but at the very end he dropped 4 places and I was out of the money since in both of my bets I bet for the horses to place. After the race we took a free shuttle back to our parking spot. By the time we got back to the house it was 7:30 and we were ready for dinner. We went to Uno and had a great meal. Now its 10 and we are watching "So you think you can dance." I'm looking forward to a good nights sleep after such a long day.

Day 26

Day 26 we drove from San Clemente to San Diego. We did not realize how short the drive was, so when we got to SD we decided to track down some lunch. It was surprisingly hard to find somewhere to eat, and we ended up in a small Mexican strip mall were we got foot long subs for $3. After lunch we got back on the 5 and went down to Imperial beach. When we got to the beach, I dropped Noah off at the beach and drove to the local library to get some internet. After calling the people we would be staying with, I headed to the beach to swim with Noah. After a couple hours of swimming and body surfing, we hit the road to Escondido. Last night was relatively mellow, we hung around the house and had a great home cooked meal for a change, and showered off.

Day 10 video

Day 9 video

Day 8 video

Microsoft Surface

Day 25

After a night filled with the sound of ATVs, Dune Buggies, and Dirt Bikes we were ready for a little fun of our own. We rented two Honda 250 EX 2007 ATVs for 2 hours. It was expensive but well worth it. We started out slow but quickly got used to the semi-automatic controls and steering of the ATVs. We then hit the Dunes, which reminded me of a large ski resort. We started out on small hill but moved up to large slopes and small jumps. We were catching mad air at this point. Like 3 to 6...INCHES....it was off the hook as you will see in our videos. Though I usually manage to get hurt on things that go fast and have the ability to go off jumps, I managed to get away with only a few scrapes and bruises on my ankle from failing to do a wheeley. David being the little girl that he is had to stop half way through because he felt "sick" and needed to eat pop tarts. Once our 2 hours were up we packed up the campsite and left for somewhere in Southern California. We embarked on an 8 hr drive. When we drove through Malibu we saw a lot of huge ridiculous houses. Then in LA we stopped at an In-and-Out Burger for the first time, it was tasty. Our last place we drove through was Laguna Beach, the setting of the forever popular TV show "Laguna Beach". I think I saw Jessica. Our night ended in San Clemente State Park, where we had a successful fire with wood that was given to us at Pismo Beach earlier that morning. It was hard to fall asleep because some really loud women in the campsite next to us, but once we did fall asleep we slept well.

Day 24

Day 24 morning we drove to the Monterey Aquarium to check it out. It took us a while to figure out parking, but in the end it turned out ok. The aquarium was really great, because of its location in an area that is home to most of the remaining sea otters, the aquarium focused a lot on them. After walking through most of the aquarium, we saw that there were some free movies so we decided to check them out. The first thing we saw wasn't actually a movie but instead a game shaw called "You Otter Know." It was semi-entertaining, and as I predicted the oldest person who was not an adult won. The next video was about sharks and was hosted by the author of Jaws. It was so so, and as soon as it was over we left to head towards our next campsite. We didn't actually have a place to stay so we decided to drive and check out the campsites as we saw them. We ended up at Pismo Beach, where we were able to camp literally on the beach. That evening around 9:30, we went for a walk on the beach where we saw a massive RV get horribly stuck in the sand. We were mildly amused when we saw them get stuck, but we saw that they clearly needed some help so we lent a hand. It took us a while, but we finally got them out. After driving about 100ft they got stuck again, and again we helped get them out. Then we saw a guy in a pickup truck who looked like he was stuck so we walked over to offer a hand. When I asked if he was stuck he said "Yeah, but not that kind" he was clearly very drunk so we decided to go our separate ways, but before we left he offered us some weed, we decided to pass on that and went back to the tent to sleep.