Michigan road trip

I just got around last month to dropping off my film from our 2011 road trip, we try to take one every year. 11 rolls of film consisting of both 35mm and 120 film had been patiently sitting in my desks bottom drawer where i felt they would be protected from light exposure. i was kind of nervous when we went to pick them up. After the ACL pictures turned out so badly i had been discouraged about my photography skills altogether. Thankfully I was to be proven wrong. Where i had expected many of my mushroom pictures to come out black altogether or some similar misfortune I found that i had not completely ruined any of the rolls. yay! Since i opt to scan my prints myself to upload them for you to see instead of forking over the $5 a roll for cd's it will take a bit but here are some pictures from my first roll. If you would like to keep up with my uploading progress i made a flickr set for my road trip pictures.

road trip

After a 27 hour drive leaving with a 1/4 inch of ice on the car after an ice storm that swept over north Texas last Tuesday, we left Wednesday morning and ended up in Las Angeles, CA Thursday morning. We passed 4 wrecked 18 wheelers within the first 2 hours that we left. Ever wonder why you've never met anyone who said that they came from east California. That's because there isn't any life out in east California. 40w is a road in the middle of an ocean of rock, there is like a 3 hour expanse of nothing. You see a turn or a hill in the road in front of you that you can’t see the road after that and you reach the point where you’ve peeked the hill or turned the corner and you’ve been thinking surely there is something over this hill but there isn’t, it’s a little scary. You need to fill up the tank when you can because you don’t know how long it is till the next station. I guess eastern California stuck out in the trip because there was day light when we were driving through it. I may have had similar thoughts of Arizona and New Mexico but the sun set as we drove over the Texas/New Mexico border. The night sky is amazing in New Mexico; you can see all the stars compared to northern Texas where there are 4 stars. It was really amazing. We drove through Albuquerque, NM during the night. I've never seen so many lights over such a large expanse before. But at 6000 ft. altitude I got a headache. There were some funny things, like signs we came across during the night like "come in and hug a waitress", “yellowhorse”, "smoke ahead", "wind may exist" and some others that you couldn't see all of the sign so it said "keep pets on" & "on walls climb".