dallas to los angeles

what a trip! i left fort worth on a shuttle to dallas at 7:05am, not big deal. in dallas i was informed that the bus i was going to ride had a flat that needed changing, no big deal. wrong! it turned to be a two hour delay deal. so that meant that we had little chance of making our connection in phoenix. although we didn't make our connection i did meet a real texas cowboy who rode the bus for a while until we dropped him in the middle of nowhere(where he requested). the trip all through texas was so beautiful and for most of it i had a whole seat to myself. i even saw a rainbow. just after the sun had disappeared over the horizon two lightning storms where visable. there were strikes in two distinct parts of the sky and there were close to four strikes every second. the two storms were far enough away so that from my bus i could see the storms in their entirety. it was an awesome spectical to see. by the time the sun had come up the next morning i was in phoenix. since we missed our connection the bus we were stuffed onto was a shedule that would arrive in los angeles two hours later than our already late shedule. weather or not any of that made any sence, we were going to be arriving four hours late. this delay tightened my shedule a wee bit. but it worked out in the end becuase the delay caused me to sit next to a woman who has lived in palm springs for the last 20 years and it just so happened that she was raised in morgantown and grateuated from wvu in the early 70s. so we conversed about touchdown city for a while and then i told her about my plans. well, she told me how it wasn't a very good plan mostly because of downtown weekday traffic in los angeles and the distances involved. so we formulated a new plan with a aaa travel map and a tour book i had been carrying.


along my trip i saw so many windturbines, it was an increadable sight. they seemed to go on for miles. i saw a few wind farms about an hour or so from dallas and quiet a bit of them after phoenix. driving on the outskirts of joshua tree national park was aslo extremely breathtaking.