Day 1: Cue the Willie Nelson music

• Visit Grandpa's apartment, B offers us contents


• Breakfast: the waffle iron strikes back, causing a late start


• California traffic


• M fails to use FasTrak, causing another 30 minute delay


• GIANT STRAWBERRIES!!


• Real Men Love Jesus, who lives!


• Wheel falls off trailer at 70 mph


• Simpsons trivia: Marge loves chickens


• M's bruise is getting worse. Suggests that she is mostly complying with RICE with rest (she's not using her arm as much as usual), ice (the air conditioner is blowing on it), and elevation (when she holds the steering wheel, her elbow is a little above her heart). Doesn't even attempt to pretend about compression.


• News flash: M is obsessed with food


• Donner Pass, Lake, and State Park. M shows restraint, we get out of Donner pass uneaten


• Trucks + hills + two-lane highways = craptacularity


• Lunch @ Super Burrito


• Largest train M and J have ever seen


• Pass NV "Corrections Center", sign helpfully informs: "Prison Area - Hitchhiking Prohibited"


• G spies something colored like a grove of trees with two groves of trees in sight. J picks wrong one first.


• M and J are fascinated by mirages on road


• G thinks that M and J are cute when they are fascinated by phenomena on Western roads


• We see a full moon, and not much else. For 5 more hours.


• Dinner at Bella's Gentlemen's Club (at least, that's what's printed on the hats they sell, and the pink neon lights lining the exterior don't help)


• Automatic rear view mirror. Yay fancy cars!


• Salt flats reflect city lights. Very pretty.


• Crash at the Salt Lake Airport Ramada


• Total driving time: ~11 hours. Total mileage: ~700 miles.