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Yosemite was really cool, tons of waterfalls and a few short hikes with my pops. 3,000 year old trees and going from 0 elevation to 9,000 feet is pretty intense. Hung out and got some reading done there.
My sister and I got on the road Wednesday Morning and drove and drove and drove and drove. We passed through Death Valley, which was gorgeous but incredibly empty. There were cacti everywhere and the elevation changes were very extreme, but it it was mega cool to pass through. The gas was $6.75/gal, luckily we filled up before we entered the park.
We went to Vegas for dinner, which was a cool place to stop off in (I'll be back later this summer) and chilled out for a bit, before continuing on to AZ. We went over the Hoover Dam at night which was pretty impressive, but we weren't really all that concerned. I stopped at a rest stop and was using a urinal and upon looking down I saw a foot long snake (this is not a crude joke). It scared the crap out of me, I told the lady who worked there and she gave me a box which I used to pick it up and take it outside. Apparently it was a Red Racer, which is not poisonous, although the lady kept insisting it was. We slept in a ratty hotel in Wickenberg, AZ.
Yesterday we got up and put in a bunch of hours on the road, We passed through Phoenix and Tucson as well as all of New Mexico (which was really boring on rt 10). We also made it through El Paso, but I was either asleep or not paying attention and couldn't tell you anything about it.

Today is one more full day of driving before we arrive in New Orleans to party for a minute before heading straight up to Jersey.

ONE LOVE,
Brett