Ca-Nevada-Idaho-El Big
Soundtrack from California to Nevada:
Newly purchased The Format
The Beatles
Seemingly endless Glen Gould mp3's
The Smiths imitators, Silent Gray
Guilty pleasure ELO
Tidbits of NPR around the cities
and Name That Tune to various statiic-filled Classic Rock radio stations.
Once again, goodbye California. Well, for now.
Artichoke fields, Salinas
Good bye behemoth ads on everything. I won't miss that part of you at all. No, not even...
...the ones I'm partially responsible for.
Goodbye insanely beautiful beaches with crazy looking Dr. Suess-like succulents growing wild everywhere...
Goodbye strange, California contradictions---Such as this car in front of us on our way out of the Bay Area. Yes, that's an anti AYE-SEE-EL-U (sic) sticker on a Preeus. Reminds me of an old boss of mine in SF. Anyway...!
The caricature artist, Juan Hijo de Sostenido. Goodbye to all the gradeschool pals who you happen to run into while visiting the family. Nice seeing you after 100 years. Stay in touch, Juan!
Goodbye to all those fleshy pink brick soundwalls that snake along just about every highway in California...
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Why, hello Nevada...
First things first. Some online research leads us to a perfect meal at Vietnamese restaurant that's tucked away just on the outskirts of town.
What the...? Hello eye candy.
With our good fortune, we roll into town the same night as the famous annual car show. Que scores an online discount room at one of the casinos...
We drop off our bags off and bolt out of the casino with cameras in hands...
Insert gurgled announcers voices blaring over the rumbling mufflers...
50's music...
...and the smell of car exhaust from the hundreds of old cars chugging by...
Wish I could stay longer, but we have to go. Goodbye Reno...
Hello Idaho!
...to be continued.
