Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso…

May 12, 2008 · Posted in General

Well, we made it. We actually came in at about 1:00 Wednesday morning, and have been trying to get situated ever since. Just a hair over 33 hours from there to here (well, the car was running for 33 hours; it wasn’t all drive time).

I learned one very important lesson: California is too damned tall. Seriously. It took us an entire day to get from Redding to Riverside. And — with apologies to anyone reading this from the area — Central California is just damned boring to drive through. Oregon was nice. Arizona was, well, at least the scenery changed. I was too damned tired to pay attention to New Mexico, but I know it’s about the same as Arizona.

Come to think of it, once you get past the windmills around Indio, you can’t hardly tell by the scenery whether you’re in California, Arizona, or New Mexico. But at least there’s mountains and the road curves a little bit. Maybe I’m a little harsh — there were some olive trees (an orchard? a grove? what the hell do you call a field of olive trees?), and we saw a couple of bi-planes crop dusting, something you don’t see much of in the city.

Anyways, I’m starting back in at work today, and I’m a little anxious; I haven’t even thought about programming in over a week, let alone done anything with it. That’s a long time for me. Always thought it’d be good to take a break from it, and maybe it would be if it hadn’t been such a long one. Just haven’t really had much of a chance between moving and getting set up and taking care of things.

Okay, I need to run so I can start getting ready. And to smoke – always got to smoke. (If I think of anything else worth posting about the trip, I might add it tomorrow; but for now I think this is about all that’s fit to print.)