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We arrived at Callie’s, Stephanie’s sister, house around 10 PM and caught up. I had never met Callie before and Stephanie hadn’t seen her since Thanksgiving. We talked for an hour over some wine and then went to a local bar called Horseshoe Saloon for a drink. The next morning we took our time toContinue reading “Little Bavaria”

We arrived in Eugene around 5 PM and stayed with our new friend Melanie. She had an adorable dog that was a cross between a Pomeranian and a Husky. Stephanie fell in love. We chatted a bit and then both took a long shower since we spent the last 2 days camping. After we gotContinue reading “The Beaver State”

I awoke from my lovely Super 8 slumber at about 4am without the ability to regain unconsciousness so I decided to read an /r/askreddit thread about crazy things that have happened in National Parks – most of which involved cougars.  So, that was great for me considering my extreme fear of cougar attack.  Garrett finallyContinue reading “Sequoia Sempervirens”

After two beautiful days of camping in Sacramento, we drove down I-80 to San Francisco. We arrived in china town to get some delicious dim sum. We had some of the best dim sum we’ve ever eaten, but the menu was in Chinese and a little hard to decipher. After filling ourselves, we hit the roadContinue reading “California! Here We Come!”

About an hour and a half outside Vegas Regina decided she was done with her back left tire and it exploded as well, yay!  Luckily we were somehow, once again, within just a few miles of a tiny town in the middle of absolutely no where.  We called the only tire shop in the 1,000Continue reading “Ratchet Regina & Reno”

We made the drive up from Sedona to the Grand Canyon without a hitch. We drove into the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to get our America the Beautiful pass which gives us free admission to any national park for a year. We pulled into the parking lot of the visitors center and StephanieContinue reading “Sin City”

The drive to Sedona was quite uneventful until we actually reached Sedona and the check engine light came on – GREAT!  Regina had a check up before we left, only has 30k miles, was purchased new, and has never had a check engine light come on so I was like lol great we’re screwed.  IContinue reading “Sedona, AZ – 86 octane, check engine lights, and crazy camp lady”

We left Albuquerque by 7:00 a.m. on June 11th, having both woken up prior to our 6:30 a.m. alarm.  If you know us, you know that we had to REALLY want to get out of there in order to willingly wake up that early.  Luckily we had no major disasters on our way to Phoenix,Continue reading “Phoenix aka “wow it looks like a desert””

Our mothers taught us that if we have nothing nice to say, to say nothing at all. Love, Garrett & Steph

After arriving in Dallas on Saturday evening we went to mama Betty’s favorite Mexican food place, La Hacienda Ranch.  They had changed the menu since I last went while visiting during Christmas two years prior, however, it was still very good.  We then returned home and played Yahtzee before retiring for the evening. The nextContinue reading “Dallas – mama Betty and exploding tires”