With rental cars sold out and trains and Greyhound stopped due to Hurricane Ike, Kam and I became desperate for transportation from Austin to New Orleans. Though Austin is a fantastic city, we needed to hit the road and get Kam back to Raleigh for his trip to Pakistan.
So we decided to move to New Orleans. With a ten-foot truck it was cheaper than a flight, not to mention this trip is about exploring America. The problem when we arrived at the rental place was that they were out of 10-foot trucks, but we could take a 16-footer for the same price. Because what we needed was more space.
From an ecological standpoint, this is savagely irresponsible. We feel guilty about it. But our travel by train offsets this one environmental blemish.
And we made it without incident, perhaps due in part to the horseshoe placed on the dashboard, shown below. It was either put there for this purpose, or somewhere there is a horse in a lot of trouble.
What a sweet ride! I guess it's still better then the smelly car :P
Posted by: Becktastic | September 17, 2008 at 06:49 PM
WOW that's a hell of a way to bypass the train outage! You guys certainly had enough floor space if you wanted to sleep in it :P
The bigfoot shirt is amazing btw ^^
Posted by: Sabrina | September 19, 2008 at 01:43 PM