Sand Angels

My last week in LA looked a little something like this (and my previous post on Pride):

Yes, that is me laying face down in the sand, making upside down "sand angels."  After saying important goodbyes to the beach and to lots of awesome people, I headed out yesterday for my first leg of the trip.  

I drove 539 miles - from Claremont, CA to Salina, UT. I planned to write this post last night upon arrival at my hotel, but on my drive I decided it would be a good idea to write my blog post from the perspective of my car.  Yes that's right, I thought it was a good idea...to write as if I were my own car speaking.  Luckily, I realized this was a sign that I needed sleep so I held off on writing until today (which means today's post will ALSO be a day late). 

Highlights:

• I saw an old guy shimmy face down under a barbed wire fence in Nevada.  Do not ask me what he was doing there, I don't know (littering, I think). I literally just watched him once he was somehow already inside the fence contemplate how he would get out and lay down on his stomach and inched his way underneath.  He is a fool. 

• I resisted the temptation to stop in Vegas and live there while trying to make it as a professional poker player.  I saw an affordable rate advertised on weekly studio apartments from the highway, and after mentally calculating how long I could afford to live there with my current checking and savings accounts, spent about 10 minutes talking myself out of giving up on my cross-country drive, renting a room for a week, and gambling to make money.  All good plans obviously start with gambling to make income. 

If I were writing this post when I was supposed to, I'd say that I'm waking up early to head to Arches National Park, then Moab, Utah, then Denver, Colorado to visit Amanda for the week!  However, I am a cheater and am already in Colorado.  Pictures from adventures today in Utah shall be posted tomorrow!