- I wish every hotel had free internet. We payed like $45/night for our first hotel and it had free inernet, but our last two hotels haven't had it. Of course, there are plenty of other things to do at the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas other than using the internet, but it would've been nice to check our email and post on our blog when we wrote the posts.
- We've been eating nothing but fast food for the past few days. Of course we've wanted to eat quickly for lunch when we've been driving, but even last night in Vegas we couldn't find anywhere to eat for a reasonble price so we gave up and ate fast food. Plus, we've been eating our snacks in the car, which haven't been all bad, we've had some bananas and granola bars and stuff, but it will be nice to have a good meal.
- Vegas is a crazy place. I'm glad I got to see it, it was pretty neat, everything's just so big and flashy. I probably won't want to go back for a while, but it was a neat place to stop.
- The car is so full, I really wish we didn't have all of these coats and dirty laundry and stuff, it's just a mess, and all of our bags keep falling over and our food keeps faling out of the bags and it's just such a mess. I'll be glad to clean the car out.
- Being from Texas, I'm not very used to experiencing elevation changes, but we've experienced a lot on this trip. As I'm typing this, we're on a downhill slope of freeway that lasts for 17 miles. When we open any bottles we've brought, the air inside is at a higher pressure than the ambient air, so the pressure has to equalize. And, driving at these high elevations really makes the car sluggish because of the lower amount of oxygen, it makes a bigger difference than I thought it would.
- It'd be nice to have a different car for this road trip. Our Protege is fine, but if we still had my old Lumina, it would have a lot more room, it would ride better and quieter, it wouldn't get pushed around by the wind as much, and we'd get better gas mileage.
- We stopped to get gas in Oregon, which was an interesting experience because Oregon is one of two states (the other being New Jersey) where people are forbidden from pumping their own gas. Some guy had to walk over to the car, swipe my credit card for me, select the gas, fill it up for me, and hand me my receipt. I guess if I'd stayed in the car, it might have been nice to have the convenience, but not being able to pump my own gas is as weird as it would be to have to let someone start my car for me. I'm kind of glad we're moving to Washington and not Oregon for that reason alone, like why should I have to pay for someone to gas my car, why can't I do it?
- It's kind of weird that we don't really have a home now. Both of us have Texas driver's licenses, but we don't live there anymore, and we don't really live in Seattle yet, so we're basically homeless - just for one more day, though.
We moved to Seattle in February 2008 and shared blog posts and photos during our first few years in Seattle.
- Troy & Lesley H
Saturday, February 23, 2008
A few thoughts from the road
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I've come to enjoy the full service gas stations here in Japan. getting out of the car now seems like a bit of a hassle.
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