A Year in a Car For No Apparent Reason

I have a new article up at the Indie Travel Podcast. It’s a brief summary of my system of keeping track of money on the road.  If there seems to be interest I’ll go into it in more detail here.

I am back in San Diego for a few days though also back to work at KJAZZ.  I love having a job I can do from outside the office.

I am constantly astounded by the number of people who make comments about beds when I tell them I’m at my parent’s place.  “Must be happy to sleep in a real bed for a change.”  I always get the same comments about hostels as well.  Come on people, What do you think I have in my car?  It may not be a “real” bed, but I assure you it’s pretty darn comfortable.  Certainly more comfortable than any hostel bed I’ve ever had.

/rant

One of my projects for this weekend down in San Diego was to take my car to the dealership and have them reset my airbags.  When I took out the front passenger seat I had to unhook the cables that run between the weight censor in the seat and the airbags.  Unfortunately, it turns out that doing so disables the airbags.  I thought they’d just be able to reset them, but apparently it creates an open circuit and it can’t be done.  So, thanks to the fact that I have no front passenger seat, I also have no air bags and Toyota can’t do anything about it.

The guy at Toyota did make a suggestion for finding someone who can fix it though.  When I get back to LA I’m going to try to find a company that makes modifications to cars for the handicapped.  Since they take out seats all the time they may have a solution.  In the meantime, I’ll just have to hope I don’t need them.

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After spending some time in Denver and Boulder I heading out of town to Rocky Mountain National Park.

It was the 4th of July weekend so I didn’t stay long.  Spent one night up in the mountains and then enjoyed spending a couple hours driving out of the park stopping and taking lots of pictures.  This was a chance for me to play around with my camera a lot.  I learned I really needed a tripod if I expected any of my early morning shots to come out nicely.

This was taken while standing right off of the continental divide.  This picture faces West to the Pacific.

Tomorrow is the start of the New Media Expo here in Vegas.  I’ll be hanging out at the OC Podcaster’s booth, hopefully recording some interviews for a super-cool project I’m working on.

No, you’re not going to get any more details beyond “super-cool” just yet.  Stay tuned!

I’ve taken about 2500 pictures this trip and am working now in getting it down to just a few that are actually good. With the results I’ve gotten from what I’ve gone through so far I figure I might end up with as many as 50 that are worth keeping. Here’s a couple from my drive out to Colorado at the start of this trip:

Both these pictures were taken from a rest stop in Utah. I believe I was on highway 70 at this point, though it might still have been the 15.

I haven’t been to all the states yet, but Utah just might have the best views from their rest stops. They are the sort of views that always make me grateful for the interstate highway system and glad I’m not traveling in a covered wagon across the deserts.

Unfortunately, I hadn’t yet bought a tripod so even though I was there a little later during a great sunset the low light pictures I took didn’t really come out very well. I guess I’ll just have to go back someday… What a shame.

I’ve been getting the chance to play around with my new camera on this trip and hopefully as I continue I’ll be able to up that ratio of 50 decent pictures out of every 2500.

More pictures coming as I get them sorted.