Excerpts from my first trip across America:
(Written exactly as was in my original travel journal)

11/23/96

Said "Good Bye to Irvine, CA" at 9:30am. We only got 88 miles to the first pit stop. We Drove through the mountains and the Mojave Desert. Then I started to feel queasy, but only a little. When we stopped in Needles. My Uncle pulled into a gas station. My mom and I walked to Carl's Jr. When my mom and I got back we found out we had a flat tire. It took only 20 mins to fix. After that Needles was needless no more. Then we saw the Purple Mountains Majesty. I took a picture. I hope it comes out. we drove on the famous route 66. I saw the Grand Canyon. We drove 545 miles to Winslow, AZ. We stayed at Days Inn. We sunck Sheena in. She peed on the carpet. I also made a huge snowball. Uncle Bill made one too and tried to hit me with it, but I jumped out of the way and I hit him with mine. Before we stopped in Winslow we pasted Devil Dog Road, Uncle Bill tood us a hard to believe but true stupid story. About Boy Scouts.

11/24/96

Started out at 7:30. arrived at Wall Mart 8:02for a hot tamale run. We pasted Petrified forest, but we saw no trees so we kept going. There was no sine of inntelligen life through Arizona, New Mexico, or texas. We saw a snow storm, or a power plant. it turned out to be a power plant. We listened to a football game on he radio. We ate dinner at W.H. and at 8:00pm thay still said Good Morning. We drove 450 miles.

No Date*

We left Clinton, OK at 8:30. We got off of 40 and on route 44 with only 1/4 tank. Someone said there would be a gas station but there was nothing for 20 miles. ** We were on 1 last oz of gas when we saw a gas station. We were saved. Little did we know what was ahead. **(there was an arrow connecting this next sentence to the ** above) Uncle Bill had to call Emergency *55. It was a really, really, really big storm. There was rain, snow, & ice. We saw 25 accidents. But of the woresed accidents was a car fliped over in a ditch. The other was a truck on its side.


Signed,

Adam