My brother Adrian and a couple of his friends decided to make the most of their time off to drive from our house in Pittsburgh to the Grand Canyon. And, Adrian thought to take his new PowerBook along and write a log, uploading it from time to time via free WiFi that they happened to come across.
Andy, Dave, Randy and Adrian all went to high school together and they’re good friends. The PowerBook is Adrian’s so all of the entries are his, with the exception of the occasional entry from one of his friends. They also brought along more cameras than people and they took plenty of pictures (some of which are included in the log).
They started the trip last Sunday (July 13th) and made it to the Canyon by Wednesday. But, instead of turning around and heading back, they decided to head on to Las Vegas — and from there, on to LA.
One twist is that Dave is part of the ROTC program at Virginia Tech (in the Navy, in his case). So, the four of them had to get Dave back to Blacksburg by midnight on Saturday in case he was called to a ship. So, you’ll see references to that from time to time.
Adrian’s not a blogger, but I enjoyed his writing style. And, if he wanted to try blogging, I’d be happy to setup something here on HandCoding.com for him ;).
“Hi, I’d like to check out the book please.”
I know it’s 2 am, but damn, did I laugh hard at that.
what a trip! I really enjoyed reading his account of it.
A note on this and the last post really: freshmaker was hacked so it’s down for a couple days before I reinstall. Make sure you apt-get updates etc so you won’t have vunerable versions of samba.