cincinnati

well, we got in late to the kampsite last night, so no wireless, so no update. but here's a video of yesterday (I think?) morning:





in case you couldn't understand what I was saying before mahesh fell over and almost knocked me down, we saw some buffalo




and also some real buffalo



that one lives by the KOA kampsite, but at least there's two of them. well, it's still kinda sad.

since then, we left oklahoma and headed for missouri, land of the caves.


we stopped at fantastic caverns (I really wanted to spell that with a k)



which was pretty fantastic and which we toured by propane jeep (yep, we stopped on a road trip to take a side tour in a different kind of vehicle).


back on the road, headed for st. louis, really wanting something fresh to eat after surviving on car sandos and beany mac, so we hunted down a whole foods and had $12 salads for dinner



totally worth it. almost. after eating breakfast in an american cheese and white bread diner next to the KOA kampsite, our two meals that day could not have been more disparate.


we pulled into the granite city KOA later that night. it was in a slightly sketchy part of town, but after touring around our motel options in the vicinity (one was called "budget motel") we decided to stick with the kampsite, and it turned out just fine. we've been using the electricity hookups to watch movies on my laptop in the tent. so rustic, and rural.

we left st. louis this morning



and hit the road again (we crossed the mississippi three times, twice by accident). we took highway 50, a nice two-lane rural backroad, which was a nice change from the superhighway and we got to see a lot of nice countryside. we ate lunch in a park and everything.

now we're in cincinnati, in mahesh's friend kreena's awesome house, after a slight self-guided tour of the city which I think hit every housing project in the surrounding area. tomorrow we're heading out towards connecticut, probably gonna stop a little over halfway, projecting our arrival in falls village early friday afternoon. I heard there's been 6 baby goats born already with 9 still to kid. I'm getting excited.

all we gotta do now is keep the sun at our backs.

You're looking fine, Oklahoma...

To start things off, here's Mahesh in an excellent video recap of our first day and night on the road. Well, it's mostly of the Kamping Kabin, but that's really the important part.



Today we drove and drove all day. We passed through Albuquerque (which I can spell now)




out of New Mexico




and into Texas






Texas is really boring and flat, which is why I'm glad we just went across the top. We saw some state troopers with cowboy hats on basically standing on the side of the highway staring down traffic and it was terrifying.


We stopped in Amarillo briefly to gas up and get cash and a few sundries, and drove and drove some more and now we're in Oklahoma, just a few miles outside Oklahoma City.

We're doing slightly more real camping, in a tent this time, as the weather is quite more temperate (this morning when we woke up the car was covered in ice) but now it's 56 degrees, which I know because I have a clock with a thermometer in it, the most important part of camping, or maybe life.

We had chili mac for dinner. Mahesh says it was actually beany mac. To be truthful, it was a can of beans mixed with annie's mac-n-chez. And to be more truthful, it was delicious.




Now, because we're so roughing it, we're going to watch a movie, and then go to bed. St. Louis tomorrow, or possibly beyond.


Also, while I was waiting for the video to upload, I played "Oklahoma" on the guitar 3 times and Mahesh just really loved it.

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hi! we're in gallup.

I was going to do a whole intro thing here, like who I am and what I'm doing and why this blog, but you all know all that, right? right.

so mahesh and I left berkeley at 5am yesterday morning (wow, seems like ages ago) in the dark and cold and headed for LA, where we were to meet up with a man named Leonard who said he could reseal my injection pump with viton so it wouldn't leak when we put diesel in it. we made it there eventually (whittier looks a lot like hayward) and met Leonard, an interesting man with a rifle with a scope in his bathroom, a handgun on his hip, and not a lot of small talk in him. but he did a great job on the car and we were off early-ish the this morning, after spending some time with my family and eating a ton of food.

we took 210 out of LA,






met up with 15 north, and eventually hit 40 east




















where we've been ever since, through Barstow and Flagstaff and Needles and and all the way through Arizona, and now here we are at the KOA in Gallup, New Mexico where we could have paid $10 each to put the tent in a gravel square in the parking lot, or $20 each to stay in a Kamping Kabin, which is just too adorably hilarious to properly describe.


























now Mahesh is making some mac-n-cheez on our Kamping Kabin porch, I've eaten far too many pita chips, and it's chilly out here, so til next time.