The World According To Chris Brewer

What a week this will shape up to be! Tonight (since it’s Monday morning, technically) I fly out for Las Vegas, Nevada to get my ‘97 Acura TL3.2. Here it is again, for those of you wondering what it looks like:

I’m pretty pumped to be able to drive that thing home across the Southwestern United States, the only east-west portion of this country that I haven’t driven across yet. I’ve driven the northern part of the U.S. (I-90 and 94 and in November, no less), cut through its midsection (I-84, 80, 70, 80 again, south on 29, then east on 44 to 64) and even hit up the southeast a little bit (I-81 and points in Tennessee). But never the Southwest. I’m excited to be able to shoot some photos and see some sights along the Mother Road, the former US Route 66.

Here’s the route I’ll be driving on my first day…it’s pretty simple:

Day 1, as you can see, will take me from Las Vegas via US route 93 to Flagstaff, where I will join I-40 east onto Albuquerque and end up in Amarillo for some rest. I wanna grab some neat photos of Hoover Dam…it’ll especially be interesting since they’re building the Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge as part of the new Hoover Dam Bypass.

Here’s what Day 2 will do for me:

The much shorter drive of the two days, Amarillo onto Springfield, should in theory allow me to be back to Springfield in time to head to choir practice Wednesday night since I will have missed the night prior.

I’ll try to make good use of my iPhone and in addition to some panoramas and high quality photos I plan to shoot with my digital camera, I’ll shoot some pix on the iPhone and upload them to my .Mac web gallery for you guys to see in real time. Hopefully it all works out.

At any rate, I’m leaving Springfield-Branson Airport at 7:50 CST tonight and will arrive in Vegas about 9 PM PST. I’ll probably hit the slots and tables for a few to see what beginner’s luck can’t bring me on this trip.

Remember kids, don’t cry, it’s only the rhythm. Grace Jones said so. Great song, by the way, so I am linking to it below. Long live Trevor Horn and his use of the Fairlight. (That’s David Gilmour on the guitar, by the way.)