Rose Bowl Road Trip: Post 1

So, I wanted to lay out what the trip to Pasadena and back was like.

Day 1: We left from St. Louis, Missouri to Amarillo, Texas. This was our longest day of driving on the way out. We really didn't stop to think and instead pounded down on the driving. When we were at the border of Oklahoma and Texas, that is when the snow started to fall. I know right? Snow. It was a hazardous drive from the border of Texas to Amarillo. It took us about twice as long to get to Amarillo from the border as expected. We made it to Amarillo barely in time to eat at the Big Texan. It is this big time novelty restaurant. It offers a 72 oz. steak that you can get for free if you eat it in 1 hour. Of course Pete, Justin, nor myself actually tried to do this. If you don't complete the task, you have to pay full price for the steak. After that we crashed at our hotel for the evening.

Day 2: We left Amarillo and headed towards Arizona. In Arizona, we made our first stop on the trip that I really wanted to photograph. This was Petrified Forest National Park. It was a really neat place. The vistas there were a perfect introduction to the trip that was at hand west of that point. We got to see rocks that were once trees too, so that's cool. We got there in the early afternoon and as we were headed west again, the sun was setting. That put us headed to Williams, AZ for the night. There we got ourselves another cheap dive hotel. We ate at Jack in the Box for the first of a few times on the trip. When we returned to our hotel, we consistently could not get the key to open the door. We finally got into the room on a freak time the electronic key worked and Pete barely getting the door open. Once again, we watched some sports and crashed.