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Hang tough Location: Gregory gym
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More cave action Location: Gregory gym
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The Road Machine Location: 105 Carothers Fully tricked out with arcade emulation, dual game pads, Episode One VCDs, and The Lord of the Rings on MP3, this little mac is ready to take on the Great American West.
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Plugged in Location: 105 Carothers Do you really think we'd reserve our hotel rooms any other way?
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CLINGner Location: Gregory gym at UT, Austin TX I love big jugs. Don't we all, though, really?
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Pretzel boy Location: Gregory gym
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Don't mark the leather Location: Carothers porch off to ship a few things that will meet us in Redmond.
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The bare essentials Location: PostNet Lets see... dolby digital surround system, dvd player, vcr, 80 lbs of clothes, scanner, printer, and about 20 posters. It'll be sparse, but we'll survive.
bryans dorm empty
Say goodbye... Location: Carothers 105 One last look at the old dorm room before leaving for the summer
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Stocking up Location: Sam's Club What would a road trip be without snacks? And with a road trip this scale, you need LOTS. This is the place to get 'em.
bryans house disarray
This WILL fit in the car Location: Bryan's House We've a little packing to do yet...
alarm clock
4:00 AM? Location: Bryan's house Yup, and it's time to get up and go!
car in garage
The Red Rocket Location: Bryan's House This will take us all the way...we hope.
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Finally on the road Location: US 183 N The first of what may prove to be maddeningly redundant shots of the highway.
first meal
The First Meal Location: Sonic near Brownwood Our first road-trip meal, and we forgot to get receipts to charge Bill.
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The wind blows Location: Abilene We stopped in Abilene for gas and were greeted by very gusty winds. Observe how cool they made Drew.
west texas highway
Oh so curvy... Location: Nothing as exciting as west Texas highway!
new mexico highway
More highway Location: Near NM border But now its in New Mexico, so be impressed!
nm mountains
Mountains ahoy Location: Near Albuquerque Between dull, flat west Texas and dull, flat west NM are some mountains.
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Popper the Cat Location: Ian's House
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Ian's house Location: Corrales, NM We were surprised to see the gorgeous adobe creation as we pulled up.
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Ian guides the way Location: Ian's House into the mystical world of Indian cuisine.
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Bryan makes Indian Food Location: Ian's House
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Eating the Indian Food Location: Ian's House Not tooooooooooo hot...
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Moon over the Sandias Location: From the roof of Ian's House
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Die, little elves, die Location: Homestead Apartments This is the ONLY thing we had to snack on the whole trip out. We will never eat another one of these again. Now, we're off!!
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One last glimpse Location: the outskirts of the MS campus Our last look at the ol' M$ campus on the way out.
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Goodbye Little Si Location: Little Si Another last look... our climbing haunt for the trip, Exit 32.
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EE fun Location: the outskirts of Spokane our very important car adapter for the mac simply would not work after the abuse of sitting in a drawer all summer. it turns out one of the rather flimsy wires that attached the power cord to the transformer had broken.
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Quick fix Location: the outskirts of Spokane It was nothing a bit of duct tape wouldn't fix until we got our grubby paws on a soldering iron.