Orange, Texas --> Socorro, New Mexico (including 834 miles of just. Texas.)
Word of the Day:
Hilar-pants: adaptation of "hilarious," in the style of the Julie/827 lexicon. Adopted when "hilar-balls" was strongly vetoed by other members of the Tutu Crew, given its similarity to "hairballs" and the non-similarity of hairballs to awesomeness.
Quotes of the Day:
"Wow, this road is kind of crappy, huh?" - M
"Look Katie! It's the road you learned to drive on! The CR1184 shah-shah-shah-something…" - J
"SPACE! I learned to drive in SPACE!" - K
"Does anyone have a sugar packet for coffee?" - J
"We could just get a donut and smash it in there." - M, as we passed a donut place
"Creamed corn, man! Who knew?" - K
"60 feels so slow!" - J, on the Texas Speed-Limit-80 highways
"Hot Chip interlude!" - regular voiced need
"We're doin' it and doin' it and, however that song goes." - M
"Oh no, I do not want you in my pants!" - Julie to an ant on a TX picnic table (….that's what she said…)
"Do you want bread with your bbq?" - Woman at the BBQ place
"Um…I don't know, do we want bread?" - Us
"People usually eat bread with their bbq." - woman, superciliously (implied: you morons.)
"Oook, better give us some bread then." - Us
"Last week I was a VEGETARIAN. Now I'm GNAWING ON ANIMAL PARTS." - Julie, the "recovering vegetarian," chowing down on short ribs in Who-knows-where,Texas
Listening to:
Hot Chip - "Over and Over" (literally. Over and over and over.) Julie's Road Trip Mix 1, with songs specially selected for each member of the Tutu Crew, Paul Simon - Graceland, Vampire Weekend reprise, the Shins, and the Marissa Late-Night Driving CD Succession: Barenaked Ladies, Eve 6, Alanis Moirsette - Jagged Little Pill, Third Eye Blind
Eating:
BBQ in Texas! Baby back ribs; beef short ribs; chop mix of brisket, sausage, and turkey; creamed corn; potato salad; pickles; half a loaf of Wonder Bread. Copious quantities of their "Special Sause."
Texas peaches!
Trail mix, granola bars and other nibbles
Signs of the Day:
"Tall outdoors type seeks relationship. Call Lamar (#)."
"Snake farm in new business: MACAWS"
"We need to talk. - God"
"JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. (NOT A SWEAR WORD)." - side of a truck
"Home of the world's first rodeo! Pecos, Texas"
Notable Events:
1) Getting started at the BUTTCRACK of dawn, and driving through 834 (yes, eight hundred and thirty-four) miles of Texas. Absolutely the longest way through Texas that there is. Then another 150 miles of New Mexico. Long day, kids.
2) Katie needing to pee so urgently that we eventually just had to pull off the freeway and hope for an establishment with a restroom. Ended up at a gas-station-cum-BBQ-joint ("the Best-Worst-BBQ in Texas!" - ?). Decided it would be a travesty to leave Texas without eating BBQ. Deliciousness ensued.
3) Julie sees her first truck carrying dozens of hay bales. Expresses more excitement than Marissa and Katie could ever imagine arising from hay. Beginning of K+M's endless enjoyment of Julie's excitement over new experiences in the American West.
4) Julie sees the desert for the first time EVER!
5) Katie drives manual for the first time in real life!
6) Taking tutus pictures at a rest stop in the deserted middle of Texas with the desert-like tableaux, getting honked at by truckers zooming by on the highway. Honking frequency increases exponentially upon donning of tutus. Vague feeling of courting misfortune.
7) Marissa bringing us the last 150 miles into Socorro, New Mexico while her fellow tutus were completely. Passed. Out. ROCKSTAR!
8) Shoutout to the obliteration of the naked mole rat (or something) somewhere on I-25 in New Mexico. Moment of silence.
Haiku of the Day:
Entering desert
Trucks honk; we eat BBQ.
Texas: freaking huge.
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