The Rest of the Road Trip pt.2

Continued...

Drove through the night.  Good idea? Probably not.  But it gave us more time in other places.  Plus the states we missed:  Our Kansas Arkansas and Oklahoma.  I am okay with that.  Rotated drivers probably every two hours.  We all were getting so tired.  Couldn't sleep in the back.  Restless.  Watched Dan drive.  Saw him start blinking for longer amounts of time.  Woke up Arthur.  Told him to pull over because he was FALLING ASLEEP.  Switched drivers.  Finally the morning the came.  Stopped at a truck stop to shower.  It was so nice!! Erika and I got us a deal on showers from the janitor.  After we were finally clean, we ate breakfast.  The waitress thought Dan was crazy.  His laugh was so loud.  We were delirious.  Drove some more.  Got a hotel.  Slept like babies. 

Only cool thing in Oklahoma

Miles and miles of roads.  At least it's pretty.

We had to keep ourselves entertained somehow..

Woke up.  Kept driving.  Drove through the tip of Texas.  Arthur and I really wanted to visit Austin but we didn't have time. :(.  Drove through New Mexico.  The roads are so fun and bumpy.Went to the four corners.  New Mexico.  Arizona.  Colorado.  Utah.  Took pictures.  Watched Taylor propose again.  Bought earrings for my mom.  Saw a car from Oregon.  First Oregon spotting.  Drove down from the four corners to the world's oldest petrified tree.  It was lame.  Saw the meteor crater.  Paid $20.00 each to see a hole in the earth.  It was cool though.  And windy! Drove further and went to the Grand Canyon.  It is one of the most beautiful places in the U.S.  It shows how amazing the hand of God is.  You could honestly spend a week there and still not see the whole thing.  Or get tired of it.  It was incredible.  Left because we had to get going.  Drove to Vegas.  Ate at In N Out.  YUM. Got into Vegas at 1:00am.  Booked our hotel on Expedia at 12:30am.  Got to our hotel.  Tried to check in but didn't have reservations.  Arthur tried calling Expedia.  Taylor tried booking another hotel for us.  Got another booked.  Arthur talked to Expedia and realized that since it was 12:30am, we were booking for the next night.  We did that TWICE.  WHAT.  Finally booked a room for the correct night.  A cool one at that. After the frustrating detour, got to the hotel and slept off frustrations.  

Four Corners

Pit Stop in New Mexico

Meteor Crater

Simply beautiful

So blessed to have experienced this with my love :)

God's incredible work.

Grumpy Arthur :)

Had an awesome breakfast in the morning.  Continued to try to cancel the rooms we had booked for the wrong night.  Went into Vegas.  Held a nasty reptile for $5.00.  Saw the fountains at the Bellagio.  Walked around a bunch.  Looked at cool stores.  Looked at cool hotels.  Watched drunk people and sales people trying to sell women.  Gross.  Next stop: Laguna Beach.  Planned on swimming on the California beach but it was too cold by the time we got there.  We got there at 5:00PM.  We had an amazing pizza from a cute little shop.  Arthur and I had a salad eating contest to win a Reese's. Yum. Walked down to the beach.  Watched Taylor propose again.  Drove the 101 up the freeway so we could watch the ocean and sunset.  There was too many stop lights so we got on i5 instead.  Kept driving until late, and got a hotel room.  Slept soundly.  

Vegas

Laguna Beach!!

AWWWW!

Woke up.  Had another continental breakfast.  YUM.  Kept driving.  Got to the Oregon border.  Almost ran out of gas .  Paid an arm and a leg for it.  Stopped at a small Mexican restaurant. Had burritos and dessert. Drove to Crater Lake.  Before the Government shut down.  WOOHOO!  It was freezing.  There were a million mosquitoes.  Welcome back to Oregon.  Had delicious hot chocolate. Shopped in the Crater Lake store. Got back on the road and headed home.  Drove until 10:00PM which is when we pulled into Arthur's driveway.  We were home.  Bittersweet moment.  

Crater Lake

Such amazing friends

It was such an incredible trip.  A trip of a lifetime.  And I am so thankful I have such an amazing boyfriend and amazing friends to do such a thing with.  :)

And that's it!  I finished!! It may have taken two blog posts but nevertheless I still did it :)  I hope I didn't bore you completely or cause you to stop reading entirely.  :)

Love,