Aside from:
- One of the most incredible natural sightings I've ever seen
- Getting one of the last camping spots
- 8 long hours of driving...
- over 1,000 miles
- 4 different rain storms (see photos below) consisting of:
+ one right when we set up camp
+ 3 on the way home:
~ 1/3 hercules-type winds makin' me swerve everywhere and awesome bolts of lightning hitting the road
~ 2/3 about the same as the first... but right after we turned around for fear of getting lost
~ 3/3 consisting of pea-size hale, booming thunder, blinding lightning, and 4+ flash floods on a desolate highway
~ first flash flood was like a roaring rapid of chocolate milk causing us to throw it in park for a good 40 minutes with little food left and no 4-wheel drive
~ luckily there were 3 or 4 other cars in our same situation.
~ after seeing 2 cars pass over it barely, then Rusty gave it a whirl.
~ barely made it.
~ crossed over 4 more of these
- mud-stained truck
- awesome adventures with lauren
- and making for a great story
aside from all that...
the trip sucked.
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