So, my car wouldn't start on my way out of work... I have some ideas as to what the problem is, but I need money and tools to work on it, so right now it's sitting in the parking lot at work being dead. Stupid car.
And Amtrak's website is a joke. Seriously. Terrible. I went on there to find some info on costs of traveling around the country and thought their rates were pretty reasonable, all things considered, but to map routes you have to figure out intervals in between your starting and ending point to get it to map the route. otherwise, you get an error.
So I figured that part of the site out and told it to take me from Tucson to El Paso, then to Albuquerque then on to Colorado Springs. The result: a 2 AM trip to El Paso, an 8 hour layover and then a train to Los Angeles, continueing to Albuquerque. Amazingly stupid. But if I had $1000 or so, I could ride the rails back to Minnesota in style... $400 and I could be uncomfortable and dirty, but still have more fun than driving. As it is, I'll drive and be dirty and grumpy and spend about the same in gas money. I love the American Dream of being forced to drive a dangerous car and polute the environment in the name of "personal freedom."
Stupid Amtrak. Stupid American Dream. Stupid Car.
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D,
When are you going back to MN and what's up with the job thing. Why don't you ever return my calls? I miss talking to you.
J
P.S. Let's still maybe think about Seattle. I need a goal.
You could always walk. I would plan it later in the spring so you don't freeze to death. Actually if you start now and meander around the South a bit...you might make it up here about the time things start turning green. I think it sounds like fun...but I'm a little nuts.
Ooh walking is a good idea! Actually, walking on the freeway is a really stupid idea. Nevermind.
He could take back roads...Forrest Gump did it!
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