April 8th – I walked my 9.1 miles today for my walking challenge, but I’m still not in shape. I’ve been walking since the 28th, so about 10 days-ish. I packed, showered, shaved, got all the bits and bobs. Lawson has his AirTag in his pack back, and Fiona didn’t use hers. Sort of like her ears; I’m pretty sure she forgot those too. Darci came by and got us at 3:30. No Tesla for her. Boo. Battery cars are amazeballs so she needs to get over it. If Niamh can do so can she. Anywho, we got the airport and our flight was going out at 6:05 out of gate 25. We found the nearest food place, the ‘Tap and Pour’ and sat at the table for 30 minutes while no one helped us. Fiona finally ordered on app. I got a beer in a can, 20oz of lagunitas, but under bottled beer they had a hazy IPA. Oh well. One sad looking order of garlic fries arrived with white wine, root beer, and a bottled water. Our flight was pushed to 6:10. We ordered a cheese quesadilla and more garlic fries. It arrived. Flight now pushed to 6:18. Shit they are freggin boarding. So much for out pole position in A1234. FISH. I cut in line. I’m a freggin A1 and paid to get pole position. We are over the wing in the middle of the plane. Dumb southwest. I don’t like southwest lame. But we got on and in row 10. So I guess that not too bad. It is 6:24 and the are checking seat belts and doing their routine. We get in at 11:37 central. Staying at the Hilton getting our Thrifty car rental on. We get now our 20 dollar drink in flight. Yeehaw Y’all.
So we arrived in Dallas Texas at 12:30 PMwe made our way down to baggage claim and Oliver bags came up a baggage theme without any problem. Lawson couldn’t grab one of the bags because it was heavy he has a little tiny shrimpy skinny arms he needs to eat more pasta. AnyWho we made her way out it’s outside to where the car rent car shuttles were going to be and stood around for 30 minutes waiting for a shuttle that would never arrive. Finally Fiona went up to the Hertz shuttle and said hey any chance that Thrifty shuttle coming our way he said they close at 11 we said interesting. So we got an Uber car XL and managed to find our way to the hotel by two in the morning. We managed to check in to room 804 and fall asleep at two in the morning well at least I did. Good night.
April 9
So we woke up at 9:30 and guess what time breakfast ended 10 AM oh you’re too late for breakfast. Good times for us, but we decided actually to go back to Thrifty and get our car first at the start of the day. I called to make sure they still had a car. They said they did. We got another Uber XL back to the Thrifty place to get our rental car; we ended up getting a Nissan Pathfinder SV. Guess what it doesn’t have Apple CarPlay oh cry me a river boo-hoo. So we plugged in all our devices and then off to Mama‘s Daughter‘s Café for some brunch and lunch. Luckily Moms’s had a free attitude adjustment that we all ordered. But really Lawson had a short stack I had a veggie omelette and Niamh had biscuits and gravy. Since it was lunchtime Fiona had grilled cheese and oh I had my sweet tea. Lots of sweet tea; yummy.
We finished up from Mama’s and Daughters and then got back in the car and drove over to Andrea and James Roberts place for a crawdad boil. The crawdads were screaming left and right and they just tore the heads off of and suck down the tails. On the way to the Roberts, a 30 minute drive, The kids noticed all the flat nothing with water towers poking up and all the houses are made of brick; just liking the three little pig story. The Roberts have a swimming pool, a puppy dog who is very wet and about 20 young men around the ages of 17, I’m told sophomores from high school who in the Roberts backyard tossing a football and playing volleyball on the 1 acre lot. I jumped on a trampoline with Lawson and we played some cornhole. Lawson is the best cornhole player of them all throwing bags left and right.
We learned there was a bull parade at the stockyard at 4 o’clock so at 3 o’clock we had to hustle down to the stockyard to see the bulls walk down Main Street. Luckily we arrived just at the right time to see the balls walk by. The Longhorns were very magical smelly snotty beasts. It was pretty cool. We walked around the town and went to Dover hotel. When we were there we saw a lady trying to walk a horse in a creek. The gelding’s name was smarty.
We found a brewing company called Second Rodeo Brewing and sat down for a snake and beer. I had two local favorites a Mexican Lager and a Hefeweizen. No tasting flight at a brewery boo. Boo on you (imagine me shaking a closed fist in the air as i say this in a pout). There was a band playing outside rocking away. People watching was great; people were wearing cowboy hats and boots, but on guy was rocking boat shoes with a cowboy hat. Others were groups of bridal showers, for a guy wearing what looked like yellow pajamas with a tie. We walked some more and I had a beer called buffalo butt that was pretty good.
There was a rodeo on but they only had 20 tickets left; all single tickets. Boo. Then I had and and adventure back to the car as I needed to pee. 3 different places were out of order, and had to order some shakes for the kids at jack and the crack to use their bathroom. I had to ping ping my way to these places while I left the car running. It felt like a long time, but we made our way back at it was 6:30 ish so needed food as it was an hour drive back to the hotel. It took nearly 15 minutes to find the stupid hotel with one way streets. Waze telling me one thing and Fiona telling me another, and me trying to go down one way streets the wrong way. We need a thingy to hold the phone in the car instead of Fiona trying to tell me the directions. It is not working. We ended up valeting the car for 40 bucks vs struggle to find the lot for 7 bucks. We will try that in Sunday. Anywho. We have pick between Italian and American. We pick Italian since it is close and easy. We wait for our table at Campisi’s and I have a local beer Deep Ellum which is 3 blocks away. I’m seeing a tasting flight in my future as this is pretty good. I manage to photobomb a group of guy who stand outside our booth which is located in the outside wall with curved glass around it. The birthday group of 30 next to us thought it was hilarious. Niamh actually said she was so proud of me being her dad. Fiona was crying she was laughing so hard. I had a veggie pizza and more beer. Niamh had a massive bowl of penne with meat sauce. Fiona and Lawson split a bowl of penne with butter sauce on the side. The bowl of butter dude was not in a cute teacup, but a friggen soup bowl. Are you kidding? Wholly longhorn steer! We walked around and saw a giant eye ball. No a literal eye ball that is 30 feet tall. Why is the eye of Sauron in the middle of Dallas? There was an auction under this watchful eye. Fiona was interested In bidding and like the cost of the items, but i was not interested since i was not sure what i was supporting. So of course we argued about that and agreed that yes the trip to Vegas for $2500 for 7 days with flight, food, lodging might have been a great deal, but it did matter since we were not invited or did i know what it was supporting. The trip to the Maldives went for 45k. Dumb.
Went to the 5th floor to see the pool and gym. It overlooked the eyeball. We went to the 14th floor and saw the eyeball again. See, always watching. Creepy. We made it back by 10. Im watching a Russian show called better than us it is about droids based on Isaac Asimov’s 3 droid principals and the bot is very clever about enforcing one of the rules. Sleep at midnight.
April 10
Hey up at 9:30 again, but it is 10:30 since it took me an hour to write about yesterday. No soup for you! I only walk 8660 steps yesterday. Boo. We leave the hotel at a spritely 11am. We are off to the Dealey Plaza to go to the JFK.org so we walked to the former Texas School Book Depository Company. Had to buy tickets online with a convenience fee even though we we standing outside the doors. Dumb. Luckily we got there at 11:40. We got the 12 o’clock tour and stayed an hour. It was sad, not poorly done, but so well done that the tragedy is still relevant today. Who would have thought the US would be still standing up to Russia for them doing dumb shit. Wonder how long this current strife will last? Probably until Putin leaves? Anywho I’m getting off topic- so sorry. It was very well done. You wonder around the 6th floor and go to the 7th to an art museum.
We headed to the Crafty Irishman which was back next to our hotel. I really wanted to move the car to the Comerica parking garage and only pay 15 dollars a night instead of 40. Fiona said to stop being dumb and wasting time over 15 dollars, but I feel it was more the 25. She didn’t like my joke or feelings.
I had one of the best grilled cheese sandwiches I’ve had in about 15 years. Fiona had a quarter of it and the soup, and we shared the fries. I had two delightful Texas beers. Sit Down Or I’ll Sit You Down by Peticolas Brewing Company and one I had before the Shiner Bock by Spoetzl Brewery from Shiner, Texas. The waitress was super nice and the place was decked out in Guinness gear. We asked her if we should go to the the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden or something else? It closed at 5 and required we get in the car and drive 5 miles which would have been perfect to switch garages. The waitress recommended the Aquarium which was down the street 10 minutes away.
We arrived at the Dallas World Aquarium, and it was not really an aquarium, but more like an adventure of animals across 5 jungle like habitats. There were 4 floors of critters and saw many poisonous frogs, snakes, lizards, 100’s of birds like toucans, orange flamingos, howler monkeys, a sloth, giant river otter, owls, a jungle cat, a saw headed shark, great white sharks, huge catfish, and a manatee. It was the ‘world’ since they had a floor of species from Canada, Japan, and 10 other countries. It was pretty good but would not call it an aquarium, but it did have a walk thru water tunnel. Who needs labels anyway. We spent an 1.5 hours going down 4 stories and coming back up. We walk about 1.5 miles in the aquarium.
It was around 4:30 when we popped out and decided to go the the Reunion Tower. It was built in 1977 and is the 15th tallest building at 560 feet. However we needed a break so went to the Hyatt and had another local beer, a pretzel, and garlic fries. Blood & Honey by Revolver Brewing. The kids relaxed by frantically running through the underground tunnel to the Hyatt via train station and when we get to the Hyatt proceeding to ride the three glass elevators to the top floors. They did it so much that they got kicked off the elevator. This was the highlight of the day for them, elevators – ha. Reminded me of Galveston when my brother and I played on the elevators for an entire day since the gulf had a hurricane coming in so we would push buttons and jump out before the doors shut to send our toys on rides and magically they would come back to the first floor.
I bought tickets for the sunset which was around 7:30, but it is a super cloudy and windy day so we head up around 6. We proceed to stay an hour and get blown around the outside by 35 mph winds. Lawson runs around the outside at least 25 times in the hour. A nice old security guard tells Fiona they are worried since he keeps falling down, but no, he is being a 10 year old goofball. Oh mercy me. From the top we see fancy cars who might have done doughnuts, but more likely are getting pics of there fancy cars with the tower and skyline in the background. We come back down around 7 and make the mile trek back to the hotel.
It is around 7:30 when we get back and decide to not eat at the hotel restaurant, but to venture back out into the howling wind. We toured the exchange which is a fancy name of a outdoor food court, but was not that special. So we mosey up to Jaxon Beer Garden and was told if we wanted to sit now we could outside. Are you freggin crazy? Yup we are, but was not even offered to put our names down for an inside table. Drinks are flying off tables and food is blowing around. We feel that just drinks are in our future with a walk back to the hotel, but Christy our server has an open table inside! Big tip coming your way. We then have a nice meal with our heads ringing from the wind. It is an odd feeling being buffeted and drinking and then the calmness of not having the madness howl around you. Haze Wizard by 3 Nations Brewing and Accused Amber Lager by Legal Draft Beer Co. are good with my quinoa. Niamh has now made two friends today, Grey from the tower and Christy from Jaxon.
We get back around 9:30 and I take a shower, and watch my dumb show. I stop around 11:30 and the kids are going at it. Lawson is over tired so I get to sleep with the button triggering ten year old. I think Fiona tells him off for 30 minutes and I think he finally goes to sleep around 1. I am calm and do not interject at all – look at me it only took 7 years. I did ask for a nice back thumping from the oh wee one to stop him from thumping on the bed. Going to be a fun day tomorrow!!! Yippee Yaahey metherfisher as Bruce Willis says.
April 11
I get up at 8 to start the blog. We walk around 15k steps yesterday. I’m done around 9. Kids r asleep and Fiona just showered. Off to Plano eh. We left at a record time, 9:45 to have valet delivery the car! Off to the first house which I don’t remember except for the giant maple in the back, and with walking distance of the elementary school. I remember the main street and the street we lived on, the alley behind the house, the grass fire. The giant maple was gone which is a bummer. Then walked around the elementary school and only remember one playground, but there was two now. The giant hill was worn down or I’m just bigger.
On to the second house which looked really good! The creek behind the house was wearing away the hill. We drive the mile to the elementary and middle school.
You can tell the kids are thrilled. Ha! Off to Waco! 1 hour and 20 minutes at 75 mph on average and got there at 1:30! We ate at the backyard bar stage and I had Stash IPA by Independence Brewing Co. which was pretty good. I split a cheese quesadilla and garden salad with the Fiona. The kids had a burger, Lawson a slider and Niamh an adult burger. It was ‘bar food’ at best but the people were nice. Then we walked the hallowed ground that Fiona came to see with restrooms every 75 feet! Lol. We toured all the shops and walked away with some shirts, hats, and baked goods. I had my Alabama sweet tea and it was delightful and came in its own mason jar. I got a refill too. The chocolate chip cookie was huge and on par with the Speciality’s Cafe and Bakery cookie.
We sauntered next door to Pivovar which does their own beer, bakery, and hotel. I tried a flight of great beers based on a recipe from 1840’s out of the Czech Republic.
We then drove back and parked at the cheap parking garage at 7:30! Yeah! It took a bit of finding but hopefully will be safe? We took everything out so should be ok. Guess we will find out in the morning? We went to the exchange and I had a grilled cheese that was crispy, but the cheese was American so it fell way short of the amazing grilled cheese from yesterday. I’m not sure I can have another grilled cheese now that I have tried a new high scoring grilled cheese. I did however try the Dallas Blonde by Deep Ellum Brewing Company which was a fancy Budwiser. I walked the kids a half mile to a gelato and candy shop where we paid way too much money for a frozen treat and candy in a plastic bags. Then we walked back. It is around 11 and the kids are hopefully wining down? Maybe? We will see how that goes.
April 12
Hi Ho! Hi Ho! Off to Louisiana we go. I’ve not been getting my steps in and today for walking is going to suck. Oh hum. I’m awake by 8, pack, and off to get the car. I manage to find the parking garage. 10 bucks. Great, but now I have to navigate back to the dumb hotel. I end up driving by the side of the hotel that is super easy to get to, the backside. To I snake my way around Thanksgiving Square and win the lottery a second time by finding valet. Everyone is waiting inside, and we pile in set waze to Monroe, LA and we leave around 9:30. We stop exact at 11:50 at exit 258 since Fiona had to pee at a whataburger yup a WhatABurger in Kilgore, TX! It is tied to a gas station, and has a rock-n-roll 60’s theme with Beatles stuff, guitars everywhere. The cheapest gas we saw along the way was 3.35 and this place is 3.59.
I got a grilled cheese, fries, and a Dr. Pepper shake. The rest of the family gets burgers they can’t finish, and huge drinks they can’t drink. Welcome to fast food in Texas, Ha! We have half a tank and around 170 miles to go and are back on the road. We should arrive around 3pm into Monroe. We thought about stopping by the sign into Louisiana but it was raining. There were showers off and on, but nothing major. We go to the Marriott next to the airport. Our room 223 faces the freeway and floor next to bed is sticky and it smells funny. Yeah! We drop our stuff and pick up Nancy. She is a hoot, all dressed up in black and silver sparkles. Fiona drives and we go the the Flying Heart pub we’re I have 8 tasters, and a full pint. Fiona is driving. It starts to pour with rain and lightning and thunder are around us. April showers are a bit different here in the fact that they do not measure precipitation in thousands of inches, but just inches.
We go to an Italian place around 7. Before we go in Niamh stands in my shoulder to try and ring the town bell. She try’s to swipe at it with an umbrella and is so close to ringing the bell. A bunch of troublemakers. Back to dinner, I have a Manicotti which is really good. Niamh gets a pepperoncini with her salad which I have both kids try. By try I mean pay them money if the can eat it which I know they will not. Hilarity ensues as they both can’t eat it after I try some and say it’s not bad. We drop Nancy back off around 8:30, and go back to the hotel. The freeway traffic is not as loud as the alarms that go off on our cell phone weather alarms go off indicating high winds and rain. Luckily the worst part of the night is the bouncy bed. Glad we are only one night here, and need to tell Fiona to get a room that is not facing the freeway.
April 13
Up at 9:30. Shower. The water is hot. The drain needs a razor handle to keep up the drain up. Nancy’s fence blew over last night. We get gas at Murphy’s USA at 3.46, I did find Walmart gas for 3.37 but we don’t want to drive out of the way or wait in line for gas. We get Nancy just before 11. We go to the Delta Biscuit Co, and I ordered beignets to share and kids looked as these square puffs of fried powered sugar treats with questions. At least they tried it, but didn’t finish. I had a delta slam and have the bacon to the kids. Lawson wanted his butter and syrup on the side, but they brought it out with stuff all over it. They took it back and brought out another two pancakes as plain dry pancakes. Fiona had 3 mimosas, and I had pecan butter mocha and well as some freeze squeezed orange juice. The hash browns were fried in duck fat? They were good but really duck fat? Poor ducks. We dropped Nancy off at her house and took more pictures.
We drove down a little two lanes roads and the local freeways to get to Natchez around 3:30 and walk around the Rosalie plantation. There is a good story and we ring a big bell no pictures inside. The plates and bowls remind me of the plates and bowls in Carmel that have the hand painted farm screens. We try and hustle to the Rosedown but arrive at 5:15, but the plantation closed at 4 with gates closing at 5. Oh well.
We get to Baton Rouge at 6 and stay at another Couryard. During the ride down I causality mention to try and get a room that doesn’t have the freeway. I get an explosion of ‘ I didn’t even think about’ and I say I know which is why we are talking about it. Then it goes into the kids jumping on beds and messing up the beds. And I agree that we should teach the kids to review the room and make sure you like it before you stay. So this time we divide and conquer. Fiona goes to the room and we leave the kids in the car so we can make sure it is ok. Room 324 is much better the beds are better, it does not smell funny, and carpet is actual carpet feeling instead of grossness. We find a local pub called ‘The Overpass Merchant’ and it was nice, literally under the 10 freeway. We parked in a mud hole and the hostess asked if we wanted to sit outside or in? Really outside to listen to the cars whizz by? Do people like that? I opted for inside where we have to ask to take back a burger that was covered in cheese. They mixed up the cut burgers, and we got one without cheese. The bartender was nice and would if others are nearby would go to it for food and beer. I have three good beers : Peanut Butter Korova Milk Porter by Gnarly Barley Brewing ; Paloma Gose by Tin Roof Brewing Co. ; Voodoo Pale Ale by Tin Roof Brewing Co. and split Mac and cheese with Fiona and order an extra set of fries. It is dumping with rain as we eat, but is clear when we leave at 8:30. I hook up the AppleTV and figure out how control the volume with some cord Jenga. The lightning and thunder is crazy, and we are in a tornado watch. I open the sliding door and the kids watch. In bed by 11. Lawson wises up and moves from his ‘couch’ back to the bed.
April 14
Really. Some idiot set an alarm clock for 6am. Uggghhh. The bed was much better. Up at 9 and it is a clear day. We fill up water bottles and leave by 10. Off to see plantations. On the way down I asked Fiona if any black people would ever visit a plantation? We thought the answer would be yes as Jewish people go to the holocaust places in Germany. We stopped by the Houmas House Plantation and the grounds were excellent. The tour was super as well. We got the 11 o’clock tour and it took an hour with a lady wearing a hoop skirt. I didn’t know women wanted a 17 inch waist and to be as pale as possible so the put arsenic on their face. Also learned that Burnside granted 2 acres plots to the 800 slaves and actually listened to them to become a sugar baron who owned 13 plantations and over 350,000 acres of sugarcane farming. Another story is that he kept the Union from occupying the house by claiming to be a British subject which also helped him grant the 2 acres plots too.
We ate on the grounds and I had a beer and sweet tea with my wedge smothered in buttermilk ranch dressing. A bunch of old ladies like 25 of them and 1 man sat across from us. Didn’t see a black person except for the nice lady who worked the register. We walked over a gangway to see a riverboat in the Mississippi. Off to the next place by 1:30. We arrived to Oak Alley and it was even bigger than Homaus. The tour and stuff in the house was much better at Houmas House. Oak Alley had slave home replicas and a French owners who after slavery ended the house had different owners trying to make a go at cane sugar farming. It finally ended up with a lady who had the foresight to start a foundation. The oaks leading to the front of house was excellent but has an ugly history. No black people on the tour or working at the shops here either. We leave at closing and do not make it to the San Francisco Plantation, but feel 3 in total is enough with the best being the Houmas House.
We arrived in New Orleans at 6:30 and Fiona found a jazz club to eat and listen to live music. We pass Bourbon St in the daylight and people are milling about. We try the Palm Court, but they are booked up until Saturday. We continue on our 30 minute 1.5 mile walk to the Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro. They can seat us and Jazz is next door which starts in 15 minutes at 8pm. A yummy Amber by Abita Brewing Company and the awful Blackened Voodoo Lager by Faubourg Brewing Co. graced my presence with a baked potato and eating Fiona’s left over red beans and rice. We walked back through Bourbon street and stopped by a hotel for everyone to take a break. We should have stopped for big kid drinks since our hotel bar was closed. In bed by 1.
April 15
The Jung hotel is great. The floors are vinyl wood in the halls, and porcelain faux marble in the rooms. Nice and clean with a super bathroom. Up at 7:30 to write this dumb thing to make it to the WWII museum this morning. We walk to the museum and are there by 9:30. Was supposed to be there by 9:15, but manage to see the first showing of ‘4D Beyond All Boundaries’ which was very good. Shocking and sad, but really well deserved done. Wish the seats where slightly more raked to see the words as the translations happen when in German, but otherwise excellent. Then the wings of the museum when into uber detail regarding the two fronts of the war Pacific and Atlantic. Crazy how everyone pulled together and even Roosevelt put the badly discriminated black, brown, and women to work. You would have thought after all this horror discrimination would have just stopped in the US, but instead took another 30 years. Really dumb that they government just didn’t fix all the racial and sexist stuff at that time instead of having it linger and bubble back. We did lunch at 12:45 and had to leave at 1:45 to be on time to the swamp tour. It took 20 minutes to get a server at Flamingo A-Go-Go. Riverfront Lager by Port Orleans Brewing Co. at 1:03, Kennerbräu Kolsch by Port Orleans Brewing Co. at 1:19. Not gunna make it. It took 20 minutes to get our food. Not gunna make it. Guess what we didn’t have masks to take an Uber either when we did finish by 2. Not gunna make it. We hustled back and the kids has a great idea; they could go ahead and get ready. Uh, sure but didn’t tell them that they needed to do XYZ in the room, but gave them a key and off they went. We could see them except for the last few streets and they managed to get to the hotel with bring flattened or snatched. What they did ‘to get ready’ was to go to the room and go potty and come back down. Pretty good I guess? Would have been better to get the claim ticket for the car, charging cables, and my sun glasses, but it is good that you guys ran? So flustered to think straight by big people or little good times. Anywho, we arrived pulled out our hotel room key at the valet and I’d and said ‘bring us the car’. Fiona used the potty right on the ground floor and so did I and off we went at 2:25. The boat leaves at 2:45 and takes 40 minutes to get there. Nope we didn’t make it. The next boat leaves at 5. We called. They. Said no problem so head to a nearby pub, but they only take 21 and over. They point us next door so we walk 20 feet to Bonnie C’s. I was still full from scarfing down my nachos and two beers from Flamingo A-Go-Go. I ask for local and Katie our prefix server who is having a boy looks at our table a apologetically says she has been tryin to get the owners to get the local beer but is like trying to get them to understand Latin underwater. I’m paraphrasing but they didn’t have a local beer, but they did have sweet tea. However there was an American Beer I’ve had the chance to try before. Traditional Lager by Yuengling Brewery. Apparently it is a well known crappy beer that I’ve never had the pleasure of displeasing my taste buds, but today’s the day. Yeehaw. I’m not disappointed as it is like Budwiser and Ultra had a baby beer and this was it a whole lot of Yuengling. We leave at 4 after the kids had chips and Fiona had two large Chardonnay wines. She was in rare form for the boat ride. There were 3 Lawson’s on the boat ride too. One from Mississippi and their 3rd kid also named Lawson, and our Lawson. That’s too many Lawson’s, but we struggled thru it since we sat right next to them and the auntie was from Alberta Canada. 🇨🇦 . Weird right? Fiona kept offering to use the kids as anchors or alligator bait about 3 or 4 times during the hour long trip up and down the river. Thanks wine. Anywho the boat trip was good. We saw a woodpecker that was huge (like 13 inches big), a non-poisonous water snake, an egret, raccoons, and 6 of 7 six foot alligators. The Louisiana Cypress trees were neat, and the blue iris too.
We get back at 6:30 and are back to the hotel at 7:20. We walk to dinner and land at the Domenica around 8. I have the Jucifer by Gnarly Barley Brewing and the Holy Roller by Urban South Brewery. Both very tasty with my Truffle Agnolotti. It is 11:15. Lawson is playing dumb games. I’m going to shower..
April 16
Check out. Gas. Rental Return. Stopover in Denver. Arrive in SJ tomorrow? Maybe? Good trip but want to go international next time
