CeReBrAL GuMbo.....

Going back to Cali, strictly for the weather. I'm going (going) back (back) to Cali (Cali). -Notorious B.I.G, Going Back To Cali





DAY 1:



Tallahassee-Houston. This may have been the best day of the trip. Wide open road. Packed and ready to go. Endless possibilities. Just the boyfriend, the dog and me. It took around 14 hours to get there...which was nothing to a road warrior like myself--and we got there without a hitch. I wish I could say the same for day 2.


DAY 2:

Houston-Tuscan Boerne,TX
So we had planned to go to Tuscan for the night, then drive to LA and go to the uber cool Magic Mountain (that's Six Flags in Anaheim) the next day--clearly the universe had other plans. After partaking in the tasty (and free) hotel breakfast in Houston, we set out once again on the wide open road. Five hours down the road my car starts making this weird rumbling sound...kind of like an opossum getting angry (and I only know that sound because my dog got in a fight with one last summer and was hacking up opossum bits for days...another story) then the car just stopped.



Immediately we think we've run out of oil, since the last thing we saw before my car went kamikaze was the oil light flashing. Mind you we were in the dessert in 100 degree weather and poor Gigi (the dog) in the backseat near dehydration. Lucky a cute family in a minivan rescued us when they pulled over and happened to have the exact oil we needed for the car. We put the oil in and we were on our way again--or so we thought.



About one mile down the road the car stops again. WTF!!!



Turns out the engine was blown. Needless to say, we're spending the night in Boring Boerne, TX. We end up at a LA Quinta (which was most likely the town's claim to fame) for the night. I decided that I would go put some cash into both of ours accounts so I called the town cab driver to take me to the bank (and this is what screws us). The next day we decide to put my car on the auto train to California, we rented a car, and all was good in the world--or so we thought again.



DAY 3:

Boerne,TX- Phoenix



We're on the road again in a brand-new rental. Just the boyfriend, the dog and me. Life's good again. The drive took longer than expected and after 10 Red Bulls , six cokes and a five hour energy--we finally reached Houston at five am. Being the extremely tired people (and pup) that we were, we wanted nothing more than to check into the hotel and sleep.



We get to the front desk, the guest services guy swipes my card, and--IT WAS DENIED?!!?



That can't possibly be right. I just put crap loads of cash into my account yesterday with the teller in Boring Boerne, TX. I didn't feel like the hassle so my boyfriend just forks over his card.



It was denied!!!!