August 18th, 2008

Well folks, it's already been too long since i checked in here. Here we are, already on day six, and I'm just now sitting down to play catch up. The first leg of the trip hasn't offered many opportunities to access the web. We've been on the move this entire time and now I finally have a day of downtime. We started our journey with a mad dash out to Las Vegas, making sure to stop for T&A along the way.

We shacked up with an old friend of Joe's and immediately set out for a night on the town. The destination: Playboy Club. I didn't even know there was A Playboy Club until someone mentioned there friend is the manager. We waltzed right in like the champions we are and drank for free all night. Special thanks to Rico; the main man: without his generous hostiness, I would have been sober and these two bunnies would have told me to go F&@# myself.

The following day was pretty fun too. I went to the Hilton to pay my respects and say goodbye to the soon to be extinct "Star Trek Experience". It's fun and goofy and I'm glad I got a taste of the campy future to come, but it was just a warm-up for yet another night out.This time we were taken to a brand new club for its opening night. It wasn't actually open to the public, but the bar was open all night...so that worked for us.
That's Joe and Ally doing there best not to be embarrassed around me. I had a lot of fun runnin around with those two and we all managed to have a pretty PG-13 Vegas experience. Nothing that happened in Vegas really needs to stay in Vegas. I wondered if I was doing something wrong (?) I nearly got into a screaming argument and fist fight with a cocktail glass but experience has taught me that it's usually better to diffuse situations like that peacefully and maturely.

In any case, Joe and I set out for the rest of our adventurizing at the crack of 8:30 and that's where the real beginning of our trip took place. We both agreed that going to Sin City didn't really crack the seal on the roadiness of our road trip. It wasn't really until we hit Hoover Dam that it started to set in. On the way we stopped at a few random places to satiate our obscure curiosities.Now, for those of you that haven't seen the transformers movie; the hoover damn is fricken amazing! It's immense and beautiful and all of the engineering and structural support around it just blew our squishy little minds. The canyon it's wedged in is majestic in its own way and there's all sorts of intriguing bits of machinery and metal and high-tension cable all around it.

I mean; look at that thing up there: Do I know what the hell it is? No, I do not. Does it rock? Yes, I'm fairly certain it does. They're also apparently building a new interstate to cross the canyon as well. Ever seen one of these things? It's fricken HUGE!

Once Joe and I felt sufficiently damned, we got back on the road and, in true road trip fashion, took the long way to our next stop; Route 66 to the Grand Canyon. Now, when i say "the long way", i mean the scenic way; wherein you stop whenever you want and do whatever you want and really only sorta aim to arrive at your destination no more more than three times later than you would arrive had you driven straight there. We were just trying to beat the sun really, so we stopped a few times. The first was in some little town in Arizona called Kingman, to stretch our legs and look at a great big steam train.

This seemed as good a place as any to break out the cowboy hats and get this show on the road. Joe and I are hopeless geeks even without the presence of a massive choo-choo train, so you can imagine what happens when we find one we can climb all over.
Good times.

After that we went hiking in a cave 300 feet below ground, visited a cemetery that was out in a forest and, after that, an airplane museum.(dorks)

to be continued....