The Impossible Tahoe Turn and Burn, Day 1- Part 2
The Impossible
Tahoe Turn & Burn is an 8 part series,
so be sure to start with Day 1
The stretch of I-40
across northern New Mexico into Durango and beyond is very familiar territory to me. I've driven all over it in my various vehicles, and most notably, in The Beerliner, a vintage '74 tour bus turned mobile beer lounge. I used to drive it from Austin to Denver through Santa Fe or Albuquerque on alternating years to the one and only Great American Beer Festival. It's much easier to drive anything else out here, but the view is always great and gets better with every mile north. This is a different desert than the one that our journey began in days ago, lots of similarities but vastly different in so many little ways, if you’re paying attention. With very few stops, mostly only for fuel and bathroom breaks and the occasional
"What the hell is that?"
we finally made it into Colorado and then descended into Durango. For the rest of this trip, we'll be outside in very remote locations, so we opted for a hotel tonight for warm beds and proper showers. After checking in, we promptly walked next door to the various types of grocery stores for provisions, including some fresh greens if you know what I mean. I know you do.
From there we met up with an old friend of Josh's whom he hasn't seen in 25 years. One of our objectives along this trip is to find the best taco north of the 34th parallel, a daunting task indeed, but we're valiant and seasoned veterans. The ones we ate last night were not it, but were at least edible and not terrible. After dinner, back to the hotel to shower, charge batteries, write and edit fotos for a bit, then get a good night's sleep ahead of another early morning start.
As I write this, I reflect, and accidentally wake Josh up when I ask him a certain detail that honestly won't even matter later. He replied though, and we both laugh that all things things we've been talking about all happened today, and it is merely the end of Day One. Even though we planned this, and take trips like this all the time, we still sit around sometimes wondering how in the hell we did all that. But Josh and I both live our lives on a similar set of principles, one of which is "Viva Variety". We'd do almost anything because we hadn't already before.
