A few weeks ago I made the trek, by car, from Austin Texas to Reno Nevada. It was a very long road trip, consisting of about 30 driving hours each way. This is with only stops to get gas and use the bathroom. It's a very long drive. We broke up the trip into two days - two days to drive there, and two days to drive back.
The overall purpose of the trip was to get married at Lake Tahoe! Which went off swimmingly. In the meantime, we did see some fun things along our very long trip there and back. Of course with that much time in the car we had a lot of audio books and music to listen to.
On the trek to Reno, we listened to some classic Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. You never have to convince me to listen to some Sherlock.
Day one on the road didn't get us leaving town until about 8am. As such, we decided to stop in Albuquerque for the night so we could get a good nights rest and hit the road early the next day. I didn't really take any pictures of Texas. There really wasn't much to see other than the usual fields and farms. Our drive took us up to Lubbock, and then over through New Mexico and Arizona to Vegas. Then from Vegas straight up to Reno.
We left Albuquerque by about 4am. The hotel we stayed in had the most uncomfortable beds ever, so we were ready to get up and moving early. That sunrise as we headed out of New Mexico was quite lovely. We did have mostly cloudy weather all day, until we hit Arizona.
Once in Arizona it proceeded to rain the entire drive across the state. I don't mind the rain. It was nice to not have the sun beating down on you the whole time. And we even came across a bright rainbow. For the first time in my life I saw a rainbow that was the full bow, not just part of it.
Unfortunately I couldn't get a picture of the entire thing as we were too close to it. I checked, and there was no gold on either side.
