Day 1: Santa Barbara, CA to Phoenix, AZ

Posted by JoeDaddy | Trips | Saturday 26 July 2008 10:12 pm

The adventure has officially begun!  This morning was a bit hectic…but finally made it out the door.  Got up at 5:30 AM and went over to Monte’s house to feed him and get the car ready to go.  After that, came back to my place to get luggage and then picked up my driving buddy Jaime.  Ahhh, now we are off…well not quite!  I forgot all the water at my house…U-turn, get water..now we are really off.

Monte handled the first day quite well.  It was definitely a big shock for him and climate change.  The desert is super hot (it is Summer afterall)…top temp from the car was 113 degrees!  The least appealing part of the trip was being forced to use a rest stop in AZ with it being 106 degrees…now that is NASTY (I will not even go into the flies or some strange crawling bug on the ground)!!!!!!!!  The highlight of the day was having dinner with my good friend Tammy, who relocated to Phoenix, AZ about four years ago. The Red Rood Inn is very accomodating and let us use their breakfast dining room to have dinner in…which was super nice.

It is definitely hot and am looking forward to it getting coolor day by day. Tomorrow we leave for a long stretch of about 540 miles to Santa Rosa, NM. More to come soon…

Below are the highlighted pics of the day, feel free to click on any of them to go to the full album.


Dad and Monte
Damn, 113 Degrees!
Tammy and Monte

2 Comments »

  1. Comment by cushy — July 27, 2008 @ 6:21 am

    hey joe, jamie and monte! you are well on your way. keep that air conditioning cranking fellas. drink lots of water too. that kind of heat is like being in soup. i hope you all got good night sleeps and i am digging the photos so keep ‘em coming! i hear cass is still looking for the monte man!

  2. Comment by Chuck — July 27, 2008 @ 10:00 am

    Be sure watch carefully when you hit the cloverleaf interchange in Albuquerque. You’ve got one lane and one shot and if you pick the wrong one you will be on your way to Santa Fe or Las Cruces, or am I the only one who’s had that problem :) ??

    But seriously, I hope you guys are having a fun trip and that the temp is in the double digits again.

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