What's your longest trek?

[Anomalocaris]

Flew from New York to Phoenix, drove to flagstaff visiting montazuma castle and Tuzegoot national monuments along the way.   From flagstaff drove to visit meteror crater, petrified forest national monument, painted desert national park, Grand Canyon National Park, came back to flagstaff, visited Lowell observatory where Pluto was discovered and hiked San Francisco peaks.  Drove to Phoenix, from there to Tucson, visiting Kitt peak national observatory and casa grande national monument on the way.   From Tucson drove to Tombstone, Az, visited and took extensive night time photos of the OK correl.   From Tucson drove to and across Hoover Dam, up to Death Valley National Park, hiked around and visited Badwater basin, the lowest spot on the American continent.   From there drove to the foot of Mt Whitney, waved hello to Mt Whitney, the highest point in lower 48 states, then drove up the Owen valley to Yosemite,  camped there for 3 day’s, hiked up Yosemite falls and half dome.  From there drove to LA, visited Hollywood, watched a movie in grumman’s Chinese theater, took pictures of our feet in numerous stupid foot prints, visited strip joint on the strip.  Drove back east to jashua tree national park, drove back towards Arizona, visited a town with a census population of 4, used its only public restroom, finally drove back to Phoenix and flew back to New York.

That was my first ever trip west of Mississippi other than to Alaska.  It was made in a extra cheap rental car place that rents refurbished cars with more than 100000 miles on them.  The price of $10 a day looked good to our college wallets.   When the car overheated in the Death Valley we were foolish enough to think it was funny.   The owner didn’t think it was funny when we brought it back after 20 day’s having put almost 5000 more miles on it and paid him $200.

To this day I retain fond memory of that car, having pissed out of the window of no other mode of transportation while moving at speed yet in my life.