yee haw

chillin in Amarillo, TX. i took a later start today b/c the drive wasn't too too far, and i didn't want to drive in the high heat of the day. but awesomely, there was great weather in OKC and all the way to Amarillo. the best thing about hurricanes is that the weather before and after is the best. cool and breezy and clear. i didn't even have to use my a/c for the drive.

unfortunately, i do have a seatbelt tan across my chest. yeah. i know. its hot. all the boys will want to get with me b/c of the big white diagonal stripe across my chest.

downtown OKC was nice. i found a coffeeshop where i could get some food that wasn't junk fast food. theres lots of large corporate art in downtown OKC. its very clean.

at the Love's Truck stop where i stopped to pick up a travel pillow for Pixel, and some shopaholic series book on cd [it is very scary how much i relate to this dang shopaholic girl] i got stopped by some old guy and his buddy b/c he pet Pixel and made some small talk. the guy is a contractor and is eventually going to go to NOLA to help rebuild.

At the next Love's i stopped at to get gas, the old guy and his buddy stopped too. they were also going down to Amarillo, and invited me to have a steak dinner at some crazy steakhouse that gives you the steak free if you eat the huge one. like 96oz? whatever. all i couuld think of was that movie "the great outdoors" with john candy and some random cute  boy actor i had a crush on and the only reason i watched it.

i was a little "um, i'm a vegitarian, so steak dinner is out, but thanks" while thinking of the bag of pork rinds i can't wait to break into in my car. but i'm not going to dinner with random truck stop old men. i mean, i still have to go pick up that charming hitchhiker outside of the indian reservation.

an aside: Love's Truck stops have good cheap gas, cheap cigs, and clean clean bathrooms, but they all have Subway's in them and they all fucking reek of the stank that is subway. its really gross. i hate that subway smell.

speaking of indian reservations. i saw a billboard for some car dealer or lawyer or some such vermin and the dude's last name was howe, and the billboard was his name all huge, and him standing infront of a huuuge statue of an indian with it's arm raised up. as in "how. me indian" wow. thats effed up.

just for my girl, the Noo - i TOTALLY passed a cornfield maze!! i saw the CORN MACABRE! i tried to take a phone cam pic, but i would have died trying to take a pic and drive.

then i came across something scary. a HUGE white cross rising up from some field. i mean HUGE. it made me think of that random steve martin movie where he was a hack preacher guy. the huge ass cross really freaked me out. i don't even think it was for a church.

for my bacon lovers...you know who you are. i passed one of the big names of bacon's bacon making plant! it was very exciting. i think it was bar-s? the one that comes in the red package. and the billboard before it said "BRING HOME THE BACON" aww yeah. i REALLY wish i had been able to take a pic. but again, i would have died trying to drive and pic, and couldn't frame the shot as i was speeding past. i really did try for this one. if there was an exit for it, i would have gone and tried to take a tour. or get a paper hat.

so actually, this drive was interesting. well. more interesting than previous drives.

i roll into Amarillo, and i see the monstrosity that is the massive steak steakhouse. its like a casino. and its on my hotel room key. maybe i'll keep this one. and no. i didn't go and meet up with old dudes. i settled for pizza delivered to my room.

i do love how the city of Amarillo spells the name with a little pair of cowboy boots for the "L's"  dammit. i do wish that i was able to get my awesome Dan Post boots with me. they are quite possibly the sweetest pair of shoes i own (wonderful gift from D) they rock so hard i feel that i may not be worthy of wearing them. well, thats not true, i got the Chip N Pepper jeans that i rock with them. aw yeah.

and what up with putting the ethernet plug behind the tv? my cord is long, but it doesn't reach all the way up to the back of the bed so i can lie in bed and soak up the internet. so i moved the couch from the wall to right in front of the tv and i'v been on it since about 6pm when i rolled in. the last hotel i stayed at rocked, b/c it had wireless. well, it didn't rock so much b/c it wasn't a suite like this one, but whatever. i had wireless and i laid in bed and got my internet on.

travel tip- find the longest ethernet cord they sell and take it. moving around a hotel couch isn't fun. and they don't vacuum underneath these bitches.

tomorrow? Albuquerqueueueueue new mexico! i fucking hate that city b/c the name just keeps going on and on and i don't really know or care to spell it right, and i was also stuck there for 6mos for my first IT assignment. they gave me the most fuuuuhhcked up account for my first assignment. and i was damn tired of hearing nothing but "red or green?" every time i ordered food. do i REALLY have to have chile sauce on my food? even if its just toast?  i mean its good and all but on *everything* meh. oooh but i can't wait to get some sopapillas. i'm getting hungry. mabye ABQ won't be too bad after all.

ugh the next two legs of my drive are the tough ones. i need good luck to make it though.
but i'll leave later in the day so i'm not driving in crazy heat, and i get to sleep in. rahoo for 1pm checkout!