California Woman

Well, here I am at 7 in the morning wide awake with my weak coffee. In Texas we are two hours ahead of Los Angeles and still, I wake up at the same damn time... even with those fancy black out curtains here at "The Best Western." At least they have free breakfast.

Let me begin by saying that all of the weather I am experiencing is quite the adventure. In Cali we have two seasons, but apparently everywhere else has four. Since I began my trip I have experienced the cold in North Fork and Vegas, the snow falling in Flagstaff, the snow on the side of the road in New Mexico, and the slippery ice here in Amarillo, Texas. Now I am not saying any of this is bad, rather it's kind of exhilarating. Each step I take (in my clearance brown Doc Martens) is done with care. Granted I haven't fallen yet, there will come a time. 

After getting my Americano with soy and my solo espresso on the side from Macy's coffee shop in Flagstaff around 10am I drove to Santa Fe. Along the way I listened to The Joe Rogan Experience about Bitcoin (Andreas Antonopoulos), played Lana Del Rey's Paradise multiple times, and took in all the flat mountainous scenery. Driving an hour off of my I-40 route I decided to stop for some food with those famous green and red chiles. Well let me tell you it was delicious, but they still have nothing on our California mexican food. But thank you Santa Fe, maybe i'll come back to try and find that "artsy" part of town I never came across. Hence the drive to Amarillo the same day- accomplishing over 600 miles across America in about 10 hours. I got over my fear of driving in the dark and sang to my country music on Pandora (thanks Jason Aldean). 

At the beginning of this journey I felt some of the emotions I have at home, but once I got in the car yesterday I realized that my dark passenger hasn't tried to bring me down as much as I assumed they would. In fact, I have been screaming and chanting with joy in my 37 MPG Honda Civic. And just to think, this is only the begginning.