Its been a few days since I've gotten on here. Mainly because driving leaves you in a terrible blogging mood. And I have done a LOT of driving in the past few days.
Houston was a good time. Chris and Carolina could not have been any more awesome. We got Maple Leaf'd, BBQ'd, and Burger'd. The stay in town was so good that I decided to spend Friday night as well. It was worth it. Rest was needed for the journey ahead of me.
Saturday came and it was time for me to do battle with the entire state of Texas. Boy was it a battle. It was the longest time I have ever driven in one state continuously. 12 hours to El Paso. Lotttttts of Texas. Luckily as you get into Western Texas, the mountains spring up and the view is quite awesome for many hours (makes the drive easier).
I decided to continue driving after El Paso and kept trucking through New Mexico. After about my 14th straight hour of driving, the sun finally went down and I began to get very sick of driving without any scenery to look at. I decided to spend the night in a motel right near the border of Arizona and get an early start the next day.
I set out from New Mexico early on Sunday. I breezed through what little was left of New Mexico and proceeded through the very bare Arizona desert. I had been driving on I-10 for the past 1000 miles and I finally had to change roads to I-8 to San Diego. I thought I was going to die once I was on I-8. Absolutely nothing. It was one of the most boring and hot drives ever. Just desert and nothing.
I finally crossed the border into California! But I was quickly greeted with even dryer desert. I'm talking just sand dunes dry. It proceeded to be immensely boring through California. But then...it alllllll changed.
I-8 went from the most boring road in the world, to the coolest drive I have ever made. The desert quickly rises into huge mountains of boulders. The road zigs and zags through the mountains as you climb and climb and climb. The scenery was seriously AWESOME. It was great cruisin through that area. The highest elevation that I reached was 4,181 ft. Pretty darn cool.
The views continued until I reached San Diego. But I had finally made it. Around 2,700 miles later, I was in San Diego! I met up with Billy, with whom I was staying with, and we quickly headed out for “Sunday Funday.” Met up with a couple friends and headed to a bar at Pacific Beach to watch the Heat game. To make a long story short, after many pitchers of beer and a few jello shots, I found myself being enrolled in a cherry pie eating contest. No hands. No rules. Just right. It was me and one of Billy's friends that signed up. It was quite easily one of the most bizarre things I've ever done. I got through half the pie before I had to bail. It would not have ended well if I kept going. However, Alex, the friend we were with, did mad work and ended up winning the contest! He won a $150 bar crawl too. Pretty freakin sweet. It was a good time though.
Today I headed and decided to do some explorin around the city. I decided to go to Ocean Beach for lunch at Pizza Port OB. Pizza Port is a San Diego brew pub chain (4 total) which one of the four wins Brew Pub of The Year almost every year at GABF. I must say, it was pretty awesome. The Shark Bite Red Ale was fantastic. Nice and hoppy, but balanced with the red malt characteristics.
After lunch I met up with a couch surfer that was also visiting SD solo so we did some sight seein together. It was cool. Saw some cool stuff.
Once Billy was off work, we took a trip up to Torrey Pines. Best. Place. In. The. World. We got there just as the sun was going down and the views were out of this world on top of the cliffs. It blew my mind. We then walked around La Jolla which was also pretty awesome. Finished the night with some Mexican food and called it a night.
Tomorrow is a big day, I visit the Mecca that is Stone Brewing Company. I'm pumped. Until next time...
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