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July 31, 2004
Riding Around America: Tucson Photos
Click here to view the photo gallery.
My current location is Oxnard, CA where I have another steady internet connection and can write more updates about my journey so there are a few photos from Tucson up in the gallery now. I ended up leaving Tucson yesterday morning at around 8:00. The 12 hour delay didn't bother me very much because without the delay I wouldn't have been able to track snakes with Josh in the Tucson desert (see previous entry).
By the time I arrived in Los Angeles I was 14 hours late and had missed all northbound trains so Amtrak put me in a van with a few others and we headed up the road to Oxnard. Good, I thought, this shouldn't take too long. There was a mother and her two children in the van with us who very hungry so the driver suggested we stop and grab some fast food. This sounded reasonable to me considering how long we had been on the train so I agreed that we should grab something quick. The driver headed towards Burger King which was literally across the street from the station but the kids were having none of it. "Mommy, lets go to McDonald's instead," they told her. So we ended up driving several miles down the road in search of a McDonald's. Finally we found one and eventually I ended up in Oxnard around midnight, approximately 12 hours after I was scheduled to arrive. So my warning to all of you is: beware the Sunset Limited because it is never on time. Never.
Enjoy the Tucson photo gallery. There will be more on the way in the next few days.
Posted on July 31, 2004 at 1:30 AM