Trip to Houston to visit mom and dad in their new digs...
I-5 south to Buttonwillow...
58 weat thru Bakersfield over Tehachapi Pass thru Mojave past Edwards Air Force Base to Kramers Corner...
395 south over the best roller coaster highway in the state (at 80mph) and merge onto...
395 south and merge onto I-15 south and merge onto I-215 south to San Bernadino...
I-10 east thru Phoenix to Tucson...
crash...
I-10 east thru Demming and Las Cruces and Elpaso and San Antonio to Houston.
the return... same thing only backwards.
To Houston Summary: 1937.6mi, 30:36hrs, $240.22 gas, lo=54o, hi=66o
- WSac/Tucson: 7:40am/10pm=14:20hrs, Tucson/Houston: 6:23am-10:39pm=16:16hrs
- Best mpg: 32.8mpg/40mph in San Bernadino afternoon traffic
- Best mph: 78mph/22.0mpg between Ozona & Comfort
Houston Summary: 48.9mi, N/A hrs, $40.98 gas, lo=54o, hi=68o
- 22.0mpg/16mph in town
To WSac Summary: 1949.9mi, 31:36hrs, $296.23 gas
- Houston/Tucson: 7:40am/10pm=18:17hrs, Tucson/WSac: 6:23am-10:39pm=13:19hrs
- Best mpg: 28.2mpg/61mph between Tucson & Chandler
- Best mph: 80mph/19.3mpg between Comfort & Fort Stockton
TOTAL: 3887.5mi, 62:12hrs, $1K [$577.43 gas, $163 Avis, $65 x 2 Red Roof, $129.57 food/etc]
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Thursday, 06DEC12, pick up a rental vehicle...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
Friday, Pearl Harbor Day... Sac to Red Roof Inn in Tucson...
windmills on I-10 east of San Berdino...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
Saturday, 08DEC12... Tucson to Houston...
"rocks like huge dinosaur poop at road side park...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
the "pink & purple rock wall"...
source of our pink & purple rocks...
between Cavot Rd, Az exit 390 & Steines Rd, NM exit 3
in the land of that prickly ocotillo cactus...
... still have criss-cross scars from one of these
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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Lordsburg, NM Chevron station...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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Historic Indian Trading Post, NM exit 42...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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... photograph by Russell Holder
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... photograph by Russell Holder
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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... photograph by Russell Holder
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El Paso, home of the world's largest Harley dealer...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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Sunday, 09DEC12... Houston...
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... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
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November 2012... Houston...
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... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
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Monday, 10DEC12... Houston...
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... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Pam Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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Tuesday, 11DEC12... Houston to Red Roof Inn, Tucson...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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which of these 2 neighboring towns would you like to live?
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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Joan Jet 18-wheeler - this is for you Stan...
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
Wednesday, 12DEC12... Tucson to Sac...
... through the land of the suguero cactus
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
cotton!?!?! by Tucson... ooooooooKay...
seen cell towers disguised as redwood trees?
well, here's one disguised as a palm tree!!!
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
lava and quartz...
source of our lava and quarts rocks...
Gold Nugget Road, Az exit 26
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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NOO UUUU TURN!!!... Colorado River... cotton... dead palms
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
395 between Kramers Corner and Adelanto...
the best roller coaster highway in the state (at 80mph)
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
Gas station very similar to the one I worked on for Chuck Chernosky...
... just outside of Houston on Highway 59... waaaaaaay back in... 1970???
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... photograph by Russell Holder
... photograph by Russell Holder
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