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piss poor planning

I have been intentionally avoiding commenting on the charges brought against three Navy SEALS, simply because I believe that the full facts of the situation have not been adequately documented or exposed, and are not likely to be so until after those SEALS’ courts martial. However,

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day five

Date: 22 May 2007
Start: Tucumcari, New Mexico
End: Holbrook, Arizona
Distance Travelled: 431 miles
Duration: 10 hours, 30 minutes (including accounting for MDT to MST change)
Map link (approximate).
Today started with us poking a…

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historical flashback

The below picture was taken just a bit over a year ago in small town in southern Georgia, though something tells me the gas station in question had closed a considerable time before. By the same token, I doubt you and I will see prices that low again in our…

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day four

Date: 22 May 2007
Start: Decatur, Texas
End: Tucumcari, New Mexico
Distance Travelled: 456 miles
Duration: 11 (including accounting for CDT to MDT change)
Map link.
Well, this particular day got out to a great start, and…

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day three

Date: 20 May 2007
Start: Sulphur, Louisiana
End: Decatur, Texas (with stop-over in Houston, Texas)
Distance Travelled: 485 miles
Duration: 13 hours, 30 minutes (with five hours spent in Houston)
Map link (approximate information…

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day two

Date: 19 May 2007
Start: Southern Georgia
End: Sulphur, Louisiana
Distance Travelled: Approximately 650 miles
Duration: 11 hours, 30 minutes (including accounting for EDT to CDT change)
This, the second day of our trip, was definitely a time-and-distance day. Having driven this particular stretch of…

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day one

Date:  18 May 2007
Start:  Jacksonville, FL
End:  Southern Georgia
Distance Travelled:  Approximately 150 miles
Duration:  3 hours, 45 minutes

Well, this day should be one of the easier ones to tell you about, both from the aspect that it was one of our shortest days,…

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disclaimers, explanations, and discombobulations

Well, before I launch into the whole day-by-day explanation of our trip, where we went, what we saw, and what we did, I thought I would get a few minor details out of the way first. 

First off, there are going to be points in my explanation where I…

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well, that was a trip

Literally. 

Over 3240 miles, 115 gallons of gas, and $372 spent on gas later, Better Half and I are safely in California.  Well, we were technically in California on the 27th of May, and at our destination on the 28th, but things have been a little busy since then,…

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worthy causes

Yes, I am still alive.  But in the interest of using what spare time I have to slightly more constructive purposes, I will keep this post relatively short and to the point.  Better Half directed me to the report that Tucumcari was seriously damaged during these past storms…

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how to get from here to there

ver the course of planning for our upcoming trip, we have known about, stumbled upon, and discovered a fair number of useful sites and systems that I thought I would share with you. 

AAA – I have somewhat mixed feelings about this organization, as does Better Half, so I…

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planning update

The good news is that Better Half and I have successfully arranged accommodations for ourselves all the way across the country at this point – Sulphur, LA (in the place of Lake Charles – it turns out the latter is a gambling town, and hard to get reservations in); Decatur,…

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now show me that horizon

So, as previously mentioned in other posts, I will be moving out to the People’s Republic of Kalifornistan over the summer, departing sunny northern Florida for… well… something equally sunny, from what I understand.  While I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with the end location, and its positively insane…

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