{"id":438,"date":"2015-02-23T07:22:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T14:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/?p=438"},"modified":"2017-02-28T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T05:11:11","slug":"run-for-the-border-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/run-for-the-border-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Run for the Border! Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ughhhh.<\/span> <\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

I blinked blearily and cautiously tested movement. Ouch!<\/em> Everything was stiff and sore.<\/p>\n

Napping the the back of an HHR will do that, I guess.<\/p>\n

Semi-trucks parked nearby happily chugged away. I sat up slowly. Just where in the hell was I?<\/em><\/p>\n

Gradually it came back. Closed rest areas, a truck stop in New Mexico. But even more importantly, a truck stop with a McD’s. This meant I could get drinkable coffee! I glanced next to me and saw we’d been joined by a blue pickup, it’s human hunched over the wheel also sleeping.<\/p>\n

We untangled ourselves from Hhrbie, looking like ragamuffins. I didn’t care too much. We had to get to Mesa, AZ that day to spring our van from Sleazy Jeff’s. <\/em>I had sacked out in the back for a nap since I had to do the bulk of the driving that day, some of it in Phoenix.<\/p>\n

After purchasing some liquid ambition from the beckoning arches, we pressed onward. There were interesting-looking places to explore, but alas we didn’t have time. We only had 4 days to get from up north to Phoenix and back. Someday, I will be back to hike volcanoes.<\/em><\/p>\n

There was quite a bit of truck traffic. The decision was made to cut down though Snowflake, AZ and get off of the Interstate.<\/p>\n

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As we would further south, chubby little cacti began to peep above the brush growing taller and becoming more dense.<\/p>\n

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\"Chubby<\/a>

Chubby saguaro, waving at us from the roadside.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A person sure wouldn’t want to go for a stumbling hike in the dark around here.<\/p>\n

We stopped in Snowflake, AZ, marveling in the 74 degree sunny weather. I picked up a Calypso lemonade and a new pair of shades for the road. I took a big swig of my lemonade, which had little bits of lemon floating in it and nearly sucked my face inside out. Holy cow. Move over Country Time, <\/em>this was pucker-worthy.<\/p>\n

Later that afternoon we reached…Sleazy Jeff’s Used Autos <\/em>where our van patiently awaited us.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The story is going to take a little bit of a downturn here and will need its own post. I have to figure out how I want to approach this portion. Stay tuned!<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a sneak peek:<\/p>\n

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\"That's<\/a>

That’s floor-dry. It’s scattered below the fuel-filler hose at the Circle-K where we first tried to fuel the van after picking her up.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Waking up in the back of an HHR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32,55,84,11],"tags":[90,34,88,91,92],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.magicwolf.com\/wanderings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}