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<\/a><\/p>\nThen IL: Then MO: Along the way, there was a lot of this type of thing going on: Being in the neighborhood, we made a stop at Wash U and walked around campus in the snow: We then went and ate lunch, and got back on the road.\u00a0 I got a bit of a headache and nausea due to the combination of mild dehydration (I didn’t drink as much water on the way back since we weren’t stopping as much), and nasal issues.\u00a0 Blech.\u00a0 At any rate, we managed to hit OK before having to call it a night: Best Western, your rates were exorbitant compared to the other places I stayed on this trip, but I was too drained mentally and physically to even care.\u00a0 Oh, and put some more blankets in your rooms in the winter fer pete’s sake.\u00a0 It’s friggin COLD.\u00a0 Semi-delirious pass-out session completed, we were back on the road the following morning.\u00a0 Neither of us are real big TX fans, Mike because of some issues with a car sale a couple of years back, and me because I had just driven ALL THE WAY ACROSS… Please, TXDOT, make the speed limit 100 in West TX, as there’s nothing to hit.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Of course the return route was across northern TX, which was thankfully much shorter than the way I had gone heading east: We turned left at Amarillo instead of further west along I 40 in Albuquerque, on the way down to Roswell.\u00a0 I hadn’t been that way before, and Mike had never been out this far west, so we figured what the hell.\u00a0 We cleared TX in much less than the nearly full day going out: Yes, that is “I’m on leave and haven’t shaved in 5 days” stubble I’m sporting.\u00a0 I can almost grow out a beard if I’m off for a week or more.\u00a0 Funny, since I was the guy who didn’t really have to shave in HS.\u00a0 Roswell was interesting, but not really that interesting.\u00a0 Aliens?\u00a0 Meh: After a good bit more traveling, we hit the AZ border: I was back in better spirits, having hydrated much better that day.\u00a0 I’m really glad Mike came out to help co-drive, as I’d have made it back, but would have been a damn sight more grumpy afterward.\u00a0 As it was, I nearly went ballistic the morning I got back due to some pseudo-exercise nonsense over at the installation ops center… but I digress.\u00a0 The camera as a ‘reflective’ tool was pretty cool, and having the tripod was definitely a good idea: Since it only took us 2 days to get back vice the 3 days to get out, and I had an extra day since I took 6 days of leave, Mike came down to Huachuca to check out where I work.\u00a0 It was nice having another photo buff along, as we’re both usually the one behind the camera, and don’t have nearly proportional numbers of pictures of ourselves.\u00a0 Reservoir hill afforded some cool photo opportunities: Funny thing, my sister-in-law’s favorite wine is made about 10 minutes from my house.\u00a0 When I moved out to Vail, Mike said she kept saying “Vail, why does that sound so familiar…” and eventually figured it out.\u00a0 He of course would have been grossly remiss had he not taken the opportunity to stop by and pick up some wine.\u00a0 They had just finished the first pruning, so everything was cut way back.\u00a0 Still the view from the place is incredible: Mission accomplished, I dropped Mike at the Tucson Airport on my way in to work the following day.\u00a0 We did stop on the way home from Huachuca and Mike shot a 1600-someodd shot sequence of the sun setting over the Santa Rita Mountains.\u00a0 If I get froggy, I might even put a link to the Vimeo video he posted of all the images strung together at 30fps.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n Thanks again for coming out Mike, I really needed that.\u00a0 I love you bro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, recently, I went on a bit of a road-trip, from here to Kentucky and back.\u00a0 I’ll get into the why at some point in the future, as I’m not 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