Hello Florida

Just one hour divides us from our destination. One hour, a bridge and 338 miles. The water is green, emerald green like the coast is named. Miramar beach, the place where we spent our first night on our way to the West. Now we probably spent our last night on our way east here, too.
I found two dresses for two weddings I'm going to this summer. I couldn't decide. I took them both. It was the first thrift store out of many that we visited yesterday. Chilled day. Our mood is slowly going worse. Sleeping in the car... And the food is getting so frustrating. So frustrating! Whatever. Here we are. We enjoy a year in the sun. Hello Florida! How's it going?

Gulf coast and swamp land

We're heading towards Florida now. Left Houston yesterday evening and took the ferry from Galveston to Bolivar peninsula. We slept at the beach but sleeping in the car gets worse from day to day. And the beach was full with idiots that kept driving onto the beach and shooting fire works and stuff. We woke up early, chased for restrooms and went back to the beach for a giant watermelon breakfast. We didn't stay long because the beach was slowly getting more crowded. No one walked to the beach. We just saw people sitting in golf carts driving onto it, that's the modern way, eh? Or in their fat pick ups. It's really sad. And all the trash along the shore, too. So we left.

morning at the peninsula beach

Now we pretty much find ourselves on the same roads that we took on our way here. Just the other way around and at different times of the day. It's still hot and it's not too spectacular.

Louisiana bridge across swamps and wilderness

Through Texas

Got another one of these bars in Austin, TX, where we're stationed until tomorrow. This time I at least made picture of the package. Bar was gone too soon again. Yumm..

The last days we went through Texas in small steps. Taking long breaks, and driving small roads since we had so much time. Unfortunately we both caught a cold and now our throats are itching and my nose is jammed. Sleeping in the car is less and less fun (when was it?) and so we're looking forward to staying in a Motel tonight and on our friends floor tomorrow. We're going to spent a lazy day in Austin, checking out raw vegan food. What else can you do in Austin?

Oh and before I forget: I totally fell in love with the beautiful part of Texas that's called Hill Country. We drove through the lushest and most colorful place since we left Oregon here. The sides of the streets are lined with yellow and red flowers, it looks like a wild flower bouquet.
It is so incredibly beautiful!

Two canyons, two state parks, Colorado and Texas, no time to write about it. It's hot. And we're heading towards Houston. Lots of time though. More about all that stuff hopefully soon...

Denver II - food

We went to the vegan store and I actually found what I was looking for: punk rawk labs' raw vegan nut cheese. We got it and had a breakfast picnic on the street. This cheese was one of the best things I ever ate in my life. Oh yeah! Get it. We ate the whole thing wrapped in big hands full of spinach leaves. So good.

no picture of our meal, it was gone too quick, just the box was left and presentable..

I got a vegan "twinkie", too. Had it an hour ago. It was good, but I guess I'd rather get a vegan donut if I had the choice next time. And Sisto got a raw bar from bearded brothers, mango coconut, which was really good, too.

no picture of Sisto's bar, too, whatever...

I call that a yummy Denver day...

Denver

Oregon sunshiny day

Hey there, it's a nice and sunny saturday morning (here) and we're hanging around at the coffee place with the free wifi. Checking stuff and writing things.
Yesterday night Sisto and me both played Denver noise fest. It was a great evening and I was really satisfied with my set. No problems with the gear and the sound was huge. What a PA! I was so nervous.. Sistos set was great, too, though he again faced some problems with his equipment.
So tonight we'll just enjoy watching other people play and hanging out at the place.

Denver is huge. Now we know why everybody tells you Portland is a small city. Driving into town was a major adventure. So many lanes on the interstate. Big time chaos. We're happy about our gps. First thing we did when entering this town that's so far behind with seasons (it snowed two weeks ago, right? so for sure the trees not yet have changed their attire) was checking out "local organic lunch". A raw vegan food cart. The food was really good. Only the size of the portions was just for a snack. (At least for us.)

Now we're going to check out the vegan store, maybe a thrift store, head back to the venue to join the harsh noise toast (= potluck noise fest brunch) and see if we can make new friends.
Hopefully the weekend will be lots of fun!

Last rest stop in ... ? - Idaho

Utah

3 x Wyoming

approaching Colorado...

Car

Here we are again. Our car is getting checked out because it hit the ground when we entered an unpaved road. We didn't see the road was unpaved. It didn't say the road was unpaved. The map showed it as paved. And we hit the ground. There was some oil leaking. And we're waiting for them to have it done. No major issue, they say. Nothing that comes from hitting the ground. Just eats a lot of oil and again we're worried about our car.

Yesterday evening, just after I posted everything was fine, we had some trouble with our tire, too. There were some stones stuck between tire and rim. The streets here in Wyoming are so shitty. So many holes. So many deep holes, lots of them on the freeway. So we checked that, had some mechanic at a tire shop that was luckily close by tell us his opinion. He put some stuff in there and we paid him 15 bucks. Alright. Please, no more stuff like this for the rest of the trip!