oklahoma… new mexico… home….
Thursday, March 10th, 2005Whoohoo. finally made it back to san francisco… i blew out a tire about 30 miles outside of bakersfield, which kind of sucked, but at least it didn’t happen in the middle of oklahoma..
I did actually end up driving all the way up to Guymon, OK — the little tiny panhandle bit of Oklahoma — to see what was up there. Turns out.. there’s nothing. But I did get to cross the Oklahoma-New Mexico border — which I believe is something that only a small handful of people accomplish. Wahoo. Not that it’s actually *that* exciting, but hey, I did it.
So yah… somewhere in Arizona, I looked at my rear tires and noticed they were completely bald — I did notice that the car felt a little squirrely lately, but I just dismissed it and hoped that I would be able to make it home on the bald tires. No rain in the forecast, so i figured it’d be ok to drive on slicks, right? Well… the right rear tired decided to give up, so it blew up. This is the third tire I’ve blown out (1st on this car though) — I think I’m either not good at rotating my tires regularly, or I drive too hard…
So… I also made a movie of the roadtrip with some of the video footage I took.. I have a higher resolution one, but I don’t have anywhere to host the 50mb file.. maybe I’ll torrent it or something… It captures over 5,000 miles of driving in a little over 3 minutes…
