So, my brother and I started off on our (not so) exciting adventure. We started out at the middle of the night, or 8:00 PM. I'm not used to being in a car at night, so it might as well have been midnight.
The first few hours weren't interesting at all. I stared at blackness for hours and listened to the radio until we began to go over passes and the reception went. After that, I took an hour long nap and woke up at about 6 AM. I waited for hours until the sun finally came up at 7:30. We were in southern Idaho by then.
Basically, we drove for a day and a half until we came to Nevada. Nevada, and I'm not exaggerating by any means here, is mostly made up of dry dirt and sage bush. It was very lonely, and not cool Batman-lonely, but insane lonely, like Superman-lonely. You see a cow about every two hundred miles, and if you're really lucky you come across a town every four hours. Go pee when you see a convenience store, because your next best option for the next few hours will be behind a six inch tall bush. I'm not sure whether the pitch blackness or the state of Nevada was funner to look at.
We came to the Historic Nevada Hotel in a tiny god forsaken town. Bella said that Forks was small. Stefany Meier obviously never traveled through Nevada, or she wouldn't have stressed how tiny Forks was. Anyways, back to the hotel.
My brother abandoned me for this part. He went off and met up with some friends that he ran into. I have no clue how he met up with friends in the middle of nowhere. So, I'm sitting on a bed that I have never sat on before, in a place I've never been to before, thinking of bed bugs, totally alone besides the random thuds that I can hear in the walls and hallway that were being caused by zombies.
The next day, Sasquatchio (brother) took me to Las Vegas. It was hot down there in the Basin. And the people. There were so many people.
Heat and lots of people. Ew. I don't like that combination at all.
We stayed at a very fancy-schmancy hotel known as the Plazzo. We pretty much stayed there for two days. (Also, since I've used their Wi-fi, their ads pop up on my computer all the time.) We spent a lot of money on room service, and watched the movies Green Hornet, I Am Number Four (I made a voodoo bear by sticking a sewing needle through a gummy bear and then I named it after the beagle from the movie), and another one I don't remember.
Also while we were there I entered an online writing contest... and won! I'm getting two free books in the mail because of it.
After Sin City, we went to Arizona. We saw the Hoover Dam. It wasn't as big as Transformers made it out to be. It also didn't have the All-Spark buried inside it along with a tiny rogue robot.
Arizona was very pretty. The land formations were gorgeous and the dirt was red. The sky was blue, and there were joshua trees (they're actually cacti) that made up forests.
We saw the Grand Canyon. It was expensive and blocked off and not nearly as impressive as I thought it was going to be, but still beautiful.
After the Grand Canyon, we went to this little place called Marble Canyon. It was cute there. It was also pretty much the last of our adventures. We saw these weird rocks that erosion had pocked with holes and looked like they were going to fall over if the weren't perfectly balanced. There were some old Native American shelters built under them. I think it would have been absolutely insane to live under them.
Once that was over, we began to go back to where I live. On the road, we stopped and bought two books--City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare and Red Glove by Holly Black, both of which were great reads and I think everyone should read.
Eventually we came home, where I then procrastinated writing this post.
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