Monday, February 9, 2009

2x500 mile Road Trip, with baby! In the rain!

Blogging, in brief

Friday, drive down
San Mateo
Livingston
Pixley - wild dogs, burger planet
Tehachapi
Mojave Desert - 40 degrees and hyper-windy this time of year

Joshua Trees


Victorville - Want to understand the housing crisis? 30 miles from ANYTHING, with no economic activity conceivable, let's build a development of 4000 sqft houses 5 feet apart from each other. Grand Opening, prices slashed! Developer: "Please buy one. Somebody just buy just one gd house. Aw, what does it matter?"
Palm Desert

Saturday, 100th birthday party



IMRP meets great-grandmother #1



Practically the whole CMS paternal family


Sunday, drive back

Adelanto - nice tamale lady
Tehachapi
Tulare
Turlock - dinosaur hunter?
(RAP: Which fork do we take.
CMS: This one. That one goes to San Jose.
RAP: (sings) Do you know the way to San Jose?
CMS: Yeah, that's it right there.)
Dublin
San Mateo - phew

Baby was very very good, the whole time.

Sunday's menu:
fifth avenue bar
2/4 kit-kat
2 tamales
granola bar
pepperoni combos (in the manzone, endorsed by Nascar)
gummi bears
hot peanuts & string cheese

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

We got _snow_ in the mountains on the way to San Diego. I was amazed... snow in a desert. Just not in my worldview. *shrug*

Great to see you guys!

-Erin

Cody Stumpo said...

Growing up in L.A., first time I ever saw snow in my life was in the mountains near Palm Springs.