{Driving/Machine}

I like driving, and I'm apparently a driving machine. We were originally going to drive into Missouri, around the St. Louis area, and stopping for the night. We got started kinda late, and some how or another we ended up just driving continually, or essentially continually...we stopped at a rest stop right outside of Kansas City for a little nap. Well they did, my body doesn't really do naps, and I had slept an hour early while riding, thus pretty much taking up my quota of napping for a good deal into the future. So the guys crashed for an hour, which unsurprisingly turned into 2, and I just sat on a table pretty much the whole time. I was ready to hit the road, ready to get to a real stopping point, ready to feed the wanderlust.

When the guys came to, I realized that my key had somehow been turned to the "on" position that whole two hours, and so my battery was dead {for the moment, it was new, like a month or two old so I knew that it wasn't dead dead...nobody has taken responsibility for this yet}. So, the other car and I went to Walmart to find some jumper cables for future use, as essentially everybody we asked didn't have any, or said they didn't have any {I will give them the benefit of the doubt} and what we found was a Walmart that had seemingly been stuck in a time warp on the inside. It was the new shiny colors of what Walmart is doing with stores now, but on the inside it was small, and bizarely laid out, and just kind of weird all around.

I got jumper cables, the others met us there as some person had been nice enough to jump the car off, they got some things, and were off to get to Colorado, which was originally where we planned to get the 2nd day, and we still did, but early than we though. All in all I pretty much beasted like 17 hours of driving out of like maybe 19 total, required for the 1700 miles we drove essentially non-stop.

I don't like to sleep, I do like to go, so I think I'm pretty much perfect for long distance driving.

This story is a bit behind the times, as we spent several days in Colorado, and then drove to Utah. I really enjoyed the Colorado mountains (though the rest of CO looked kinda like Kansas...oh Kansas...} and I have loved Utah. Cafe Rio, meeting cool new people, seeing a few people I kind of wanted to see but wasn't really sure if I would get to, meeting people I had kind of heard about but didn't really know, and seeing people I had kind of forgotten about as well. Colorado was cool, but Utah has been my favorite for sure.

However, today we head to the state of California, whose motto is "Eureka, I have found it!" I like hte sound of that. Maybe I'll find lots of things in California, who knows...