photo highlights so far:
cosanti
scottsdale
salton sea
salvation mountain
windmills
cabazon dinosaurs
Monthly Archive for March, 2007
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day four and my cell phone broke. i could send and receive calls, but the display was broken. this effectively turned my cell phone into some kind of bullshit old-school rotary phone, where i never knew who was calling, and i couldn’t call anyone unless i dialed their number blindly and hit send. erica and i spent half an hour at the cingular store waiting for someone to sell me a new phone. once i picked a phone and bought it, the cell phone salesman who had been helping me said, “see? that was quick.”
“yes,” i said. “quick and painful, just like a kick in the balls.”
is that there’s no full-length mirror, so you can’t see if your clothes look good with your shoes. this is why i was wearing bermuda shorts, knee socks, and converse when i arrived at erica’s house in phoenix.
oddly enough, my ipod let me down during depeche mode’s “never let me down again.” i had to call my dad and have him ask the internet how to restart a frozen ipod. apparently you toggle the hold switch, and then press down on the menu and enter keys for ten seconds. it worked.
i’ve been taking a lot of photos and posting them to flickr; you can see them here. most of them are better than this one.
so far internet access is spotty at best; at the moment i’m sitting in front of an internet cafe in las cruces. on the bright side, lack of internet access has forced me to write about ten pages so far.
i stopped at target today to get some things for my roadtrip, which starts tomorrow. the cashier scanned my new tire jack and said, “you know what blanche dubois said about always depending on the kindness of strangers?”
“yes,” i said, “but what if there’s nobody around?”
“then it’s like a horror movie, i guess.”
“oh, great.”
“well,” the cashier said, backtracking, “i hate horror movies anyway. they’re just scary for no reason. why would anyone want to be scared? i don’t even know why they make them.”
because some people like to be scared, i wanted to say, but i wasn’t interested in more comparisons of my roadtrip to a slasher film.
i considered my roadtrip as having begun when i acquired a full-size spare today after visiting three different places trying to purchase a wheel. apparently 14″ wheels for 1996 acuras aren’t very popular. a record two out of three people at the tire/parts places i visited didn’t patronize me, though the tire guy (not a patronizer) asked if i was taking this trip because i’d just graduated high school. if i cared about such things as how old i look, i’d consider investing in better clothes.
for those of you who are wondering about the contributions, i reached my goal shortly after taking that part of the site down. i’m very grateful to all of you who contributed; that you’ve made this trip possible means more to me than i can say. i’m also grateful to ryan and dave for linking to it on their sites, to jason for letting me borrow parts of his micropayment system, and to min jung for giving me a lot of good ideas. thanks also to the laptop donor. you are the best.
the next time i write here, i’ll be in a whole other city.
