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  • Day 1 - drive out of Florida
    Left Miami at 6:30 am. Drove straight to New Orleans. 13 hours of driving. The BRT had battery issues the night before, so we decided to change it north of Orlando.
    The cargo topper was making a lot of wind noise after we reached 60 mph. So we lived with the noise. By the time I'm writing this, we are so used to the noise, it's scary.
    We took some green mangoes to deliver to tom and melissa in Denver. It will make for some juicy snacks in the trip.
    I have to treat them with care, which is bound to drive tracy crazy.
    We arrived in New Orleans at 9 pm local time. The hotel's parking could not accomodate the BRT, so they had to park it offsite in an uncovered lot. This caused me to worry a bit but it turned out ok. the bikes and the cargo were untouched.


  • The great american road trip


    From Miami to Yellow Stone and Back. 85 hours of driving. $1,500 in gas. And many sleepless nights worrying about bears.


    The Valdes, Toy, Goad family is on the road again.


  • iPad
    got one. ok, maybe two.

    I love the instant boot, the PIM (email, contact, calendar) client, and the battery life. It runs for two days without a charge.

    I wish it had a pen and a camera.

    I think Apple should open up the OS. And let files be files.

    It needs a printing subsystem.


  • Day 3 and 4.



    Drove through Cuba, NM. Had to take a shot there. And a local gave me a root of the osha plant. He spoke 4 languages (english, spanish, navajo, and other native dialect.) Some of the root followed us all the way during the trip in case anyone got a sore throat.






    Arrived in Durango, CO and drove like crazy looking for a hotel. We could not find one even though there were at least 30 in town. Eventually, Tracy pull out her iPhone and found a Holiday inn. We had a home.




    Hung around town and visited the train museum and the Strater Hotel there. The kids had a blast looking for the secret hiding places. We also took the free tram around town. How do you spell tourists?




    Next morning we checked out and went to Mesa Verde, where the Anasazi indians lived in cliff dwellings. They lived there 1100 years ago and had to abandon the dwellings after a 24 year drought. Anthropologists theorize that they migrated south and joined the Pueblos in NM and AZ. Really neat hike also. And the museum is very informative.




    From Mesa Verde, we directed our compass (AKA GPS) towards Moab, UT.











  • The plan:

    But nothing ever goes according to plan.