Another day...another mile....

We are closing in on the 120 hour mark of the Roadie. Today’s highlight was reaching the Western most part of the United States that any of us has ever traveled. That particular landmark of our lives is the 4ft piece of real estate behind the light pole above. This pole is located on the pier in Venice Beach. Everyone went behind the light pole before we started our trip back. This was the road trip equivalent of touching the mailbox or road sign at the end of the street when running as a kid.

We also saw Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys walking with a girl on the pier.

Everyone put their foot into the Pacific Ocean and the Cuz is attempting to bring back the late 80’s tight role jean style. The Pacific Ocean will fool you too…1st wave barely covers the foot, 2nd wave barely covers the foot, 3rd wave barely covers the foot, 4th wave BOOM….soaked blue jeans to the knees! Water is chilly in January.

We are just outside of Phoenix right now with plans to stop in Tucson for the night. Tomorrow will be a big time road day as we will go all the way from Tucson to somewhere on the Eastern side of Dallas….approx 960 miles. This will setup the final 600 mile drive on Sunday back to Tuscaloosa. As I type, we are currently on mile 2722 of the Pasadena Roadie.

For those curious as to what we do in the van, here is a quick list of recent conversations:

1. What is your preferred method of eating sunflower seeds? How do you crack them…front teeth or back teeth? Favorite flavored sunflower seed and why..

2. Most recently…where is the nearest Krispy Kreme to our location right now? Do you dunk your doughnut in milk? What else do you dunk in milk?

3. An ongoing storyline involving Kirk Herbstreit having a famous recipe for Indian Tacos and wanting to cook for us

4. Many, many, multi million dollar product ideas.

5. Who’s GPS, map program gives better directions….the Bro’s Iphone Vs My Microsoft laptop program and Telenav program on Blackberry. For the record, my programs did not lead us into a dead end parking lot while looking for the Pacific Ocean.

6. The sun and its relation to sneezing. Any light and its relation to sneezing.

7. Songs that have the names of streets that we saw in Los Angeles in them.

As you can see, this is not only a Man getaway…there are important topics being covered for the betterment of society.