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Not really a story, just some pics! 
So off i go. The RTR was great, and i met a lot of great fucking people, but i had been there for 2 weeks and after my phone getting stolen out of my truck, i thought it was about time to shove-off.
RTR morning briefing
Ad from Tina
"Where the fuck am i going next?" I thought to myself while driving past the quartzsite gem show. Flagstaff is too cold, and the slabs were about the same as quartzsite.....then i remembered i had a friend is Austin, TX i had not seen in a while.
Thoughts raced through my mind.
"It's too far"
"your little Yota won't make it"
"Yes it will, you pussy! Go for it"
"do I have the gas?"
"you just got a tax return! Duh!"
"I HAVE never been to Texas..."
"But do you WANT to go to Texas?!"
"Not really..."
"Fuck it?"
"Fuck it!"
I love the heart-to-heart conversations I have with myself.
So I drive. Through Phoenix, Tucson, Las Cruces, El Paso, and finally....to Austin. Never thought it was as big as it actually is.
Austin Skyline at night
I meet up with my friend and stay at his apartment for a few weeks. We have a great time. Party on 6th street. Go down to Corpus Christy and San Padre Island...all the great so-TX stuff.
360 bridge
Rail tressle
White Lightning enjoying the Texas coastline
Jemma, my friends puppy, after a bath
Austin was nice, but defineitly time to GtFO of TX. Me and White Lightning (my toytoa) head across the wide open, and unfogiving wasteland of west Texas (dangerous for us hippie-loving liberals).
Somewhere outside of Brown-Stain-Field, TX i start to feel some power loss and hesitation on accel in my truck (that cant be good), so i buy a can of Sea Foam and hope for the best.
WRONG!
I break down 25 miles outside Roswell, NM and after much kicking and cursing, get my truck towed into the Wal Mart. Aliens man, I swear to God.
Tried to fix it, and after much time in O'Reilly, decide that My only option Is to store my truck and start hitching in order to get to my job in Moab, UT on time.
Off I go, AGAIN. But this time only with the essentials, one work uniform, and my Bouzouki.
From Roswell, I get a ride with a retired bat scientist who offers me a job caving and counting bats. Then a ride to a place called Lincoln, NM where Billy the Kid made a famous jail escape ( I REALLY wants to squat that old jailhouse, but didn't).
And then to an awesome place called Capitan, NM where Smokey the Bear (The real bear who was made into a Forest Service icon) was found and saved from a wildfire (this shit is fucking interesting to me because I'm a Park Ranger). Alot is going on in middle NM, apparently.
Then I get a ride to Socorro, NM and camp by the Rio Grand, and head up to Belen in the hope of catching a train.
Abandoned caboose in Socorro
After sitting outside the yard for a while I decide that I have WAY too much shit to hop a train, and spring the last of my money for a Amtrak to Flagstaff. (If I can't hop one, I'm sure as hell at least gonna ride one).
After seeing my Mom in Flagstaff, I head to to Sedona to do some hiking, and end up squatting in this abandoned resort down by the creek, due to the torrential rains, which end up taking out the highyway i was planning on hitching back to flagstaff.
Sedona view
Squat
And then, through the rez and up to Durango, after getting a ride straight between the two places by a nice Zuni lady who stops to get us some frybread and mutton along the way.
San Francisco peaks from the rez
Durango is awesome, as always. I win a pool tournament at Orio' s and spend the money on drinks (as always).
Durango pic
I'm out! Time to hit some hot springs in Rico, CO on my way to Moab. The local bar in Rico (population 50) is colorful, and full of drunks who make great food!
Rico hot springs
Worst damn hitching of my life South out of Rico to Moab, but still make it in one day.
Wilson Arch from the back of a moving pickup
Now I am sitting by the creek in Moab with beer in hand, waiting for my job to start in a couple days. I'M HOUSED UP AND EMPLOYED, NICCA!
So off i go. The RTR was great, and i met a lot of great fucking people, but i had been there for 2 weeks and after my phone getting stolen out of my truck, i thought it was about time to shove-off.
RTR morning briefing
Ad from Tina
"Where the fuck am i going next?" I thought to myself while driving past the quartzsite gem show. Flagstaff is too cold, and the slabs were about the same as quartzsite.....then i remembered i had a friend is Austin, TX i had not seen in a while.
Thoughts raced through my mind.
"It's too far"
"your little Yota won't make it"
"Yes it will, you pussy! Go for it"
"do I have the gas?"
"you just got a tax return! Duh!"
"I HAVE never been to Texas..."
"But do you WANT to go to Texas?!"
"Not really..."
"Fuck it?"
"Fuck it!"
I love the heart-to-heart conversations I have with myself.
So I drive. Through Phoenix, Tucson, Las Cruces, El Paso, and finally....to Austin. Never thought it was as big as it actually is.
Austin Skyline at night
I meet up with my friend and stay at his apartment for a few weeks. We have a great time. Party on 6th street. Go down to Corpus Christy and San Padre Island...all the great so-TX stuff.
360 bridge
Rail tressle
White Lightning enjoying the Texas coastline
Jemma, my friends puppy, after a bath
Austin was nice, but defineitly time to GtFO of TX. Me and White Lightning (my toytoa) head across the wide open, and unfogiving wasteland of west Texas (dangerous for us hippie-loving liberals).
Somewhere outside of Brown-Stain-Field, TX i start to feel some power loss and hesitation on accel in my truck (that cant be good), so i buy a can of Sea Foam and hope for the best.
WRONG!
I break down 25 miles outside Roswell, NM and after much kicking and cursing, get my truck towed into the Wal Mart. Aliens man, I swear to God.
Tried to fix it, and after much time in O'Reilly, decide that My only option Is to store my truck and start hitching in order to get to my job in Moab, UT on time.
Off I go, AGAIN. But this time only with the essentials, one work uniform, and my Bouzouki.
From Roswell, I get a ride with a retired bat scientist who offers me a job caving and counting bats. Then a ride to a place called Lincoln, NM where Billy the Kid made a famous jail escape ( I REALLY wants to squat that old jailhouse, but didn't).
And then to an awesome place called Capitan, NM where Smokey the Bear (The real bear who was made into a Forest Service icon) was found and saved from a wildfire (this shit is fucking interesting to me because I'm a Park Ranger). Alot is going on in middle NM, apparently.
Then I get a ride to Socorro, NM and camp by the Rio Grand, and head up to Belen in the hope of catching a train.
Abandoned caboose in Socorro
After sitting outside the yard for a while I decide that I have WAY too much shit to hop a train, and spring the last of my money for a Amtrak to Flagstaff. (If I can't hop one, I'm sure as hell at least gonna ride one).
After seeing my Mom in Flagstaff, I head to to Sedona to do some hiking, and end up squatting in this abandoned resort down by the creek, due to the torrential rains, which end up taking out the highyway i was planning on hitching back to flagstaff.
Sedona view
Squat
And then, through the rez and up to Durango, after getting a ride straight between the two places by a nice Zuni lady who stops to get us some frybread and mutton along the way.
San Francisco peaks from the rez
Durango is awesome, as always. I win a pool tournament at Orio' s and spend the money on drinks (as always).
Durango pic
I'm out! Time to hit some hot springs in Rico, CO on my way to Moab. The local bar in Rico (population 50) is colorful, and full of drunks who make great food!
Rico hot springs
Worst damn hitching of my life South out of Rico to Moab, but still make it in one day.
Wilson Arch from the back of a moving pickup
Now I am sitting by the creek in Moab with beer in hand, waiting for my job to start in a couple days. I'M HOUSED UP AND EMPLOYED, NICCA!
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