From The Back Row

After last year’s epic road trip (14 days, over 4000 miles, 2 countries), I decided to play it cool this year and take it easy. I’ll escape soon after my exam on Friday, spend 2 nights in Atlanta (one of which seeing Lynyrd Skynyrd with Kid Rock), move along to Memphis and Graceland (and Corky’s). After that it’s Oklahoma City and Albuquerque. The final day is really more of a test than anything else, a 774-mile run from ABQ to Arcadia – just to see if I can do it.
Should be an interesting trip as it is probably the last of it’s kind for awhile.

Day 1 – Tucson
Late start leaving the Arc, didn’t actually pull out until just before 2pm. My punishment was one last dose of LA traffic (210 east, 71 south, 91 east). An hour later I was on 15 and headed for the border. Took the 15/8 route this time since the last time I went through PHX to Tucson I spent an extra hour and a half in traffic. Drive was good, scenic – plenty of rocks. Made a stop at the Golden Acorn Casino for gas. Didn’t really make a lunch stop per se, got into the Marriott here around 11pm and got a salad from rm svc. No pictures as my iPhoto just finished getting updated. Playlist for Day 1 is a little tragic – podcasts included MacBreak Weekly and GDGT, music ran the gamut – Buffett, Marley, Winger, Journey, NWA, Smash Mouth, Eli Young Band, Don Henley. I know, ouch.

Day 2 – Fort Stockton
Day 3 – Austin
Day 4 – New Orleans
Day 5 – Jacksonville
Day 6 – Fort Lauderdale

Ok, so it’s been awhile since I’ve posted to my personal blog. There are many reasons, but the basic one is that I’ve been “participating” more on “The Facebook” lately. Also, I do use Twitter fairly regularly (and have been for 2+ years now), but since that is shown in this blog’s sidebar, I guess it counts as updating this site. Also, I haven’t been using Flickr much – that could change as well. Basically I’m becoming more of a mobile blogger which is basically Twitter (which updates my FB status). After it updates FB, my non-Twitter crowd can comment on that status and discussions form, etc.

Since I’m wrapping up school in the next few fortnights, I’ll come back to this, my personal blog more. I have plans to start at least one more blog which I’ll update regularly (at least daily to start). The plans are for a “lifestyle blog” covering topics that interest me and that I think will interest a lot of people. I’ll probably develop it while I’m in Miami and the best I can hope for is maybe a September 1st launch. More details to come on that down the road…

The roadie is in-place, leaving Friday and hitting up Tucson, Fort Stockton, Austin, New Orleans, Jacksonville & Fort Lauderdale. Graduation is next Friday, May 15th – you’re all invited – see you at the BUC!

Matt & I get the road trip thing