Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 12 - Two Part Check In

*The following are videos we took from our road trip back in May. It consisted of traveling from Alabama to California and back, hitting various cities in between. Some of these videos may be "documentary style" and some may be just random videos along the way. Most will not have an explanation because the video should speak for itself, but for the random ones a lil explanation will be included. I know on the surface these are kind of lame, but hopefully you will enjoy them and feel like you were a part of a cross country road trip. If you just feel like you are watching some random kids in random videos, well I hope you enjoy that too.

**I know most of you check blogs at work and can't see videos, but please try to watch these later as the videos speak for themselves. The first one is actually at a good angle and you can see and hear us clearly, and while the second one is dark, it gets the story across. If you can't see the videos or don't understand what happened, I will explain on Friday's post.




And the results...

Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 11 - Santa Fe

*The following are videos we took from our road trip back in May. It consisted of traveling from Alabama to California and back, hitting various cities in between. Some of these videos may be "documentary style" and some may be just random videos along the way. Most will not have an explanation because the video should speak for itself, but for the random ones a lil explanation will be included. I know on the surface these are kind of lame, but hopefully you will enjoy them and feel like you were a part of a cross country road trip. If you just feel like you are watching some random kids in random videos, well I hope you enjoy that too.

**This is going to be a picture heavy post because Santa Fe was a beautiful place. Before we went on our trip, a co-worker of Frisco's said to go there and they turned out to give some of the best advice ever. Seriously, if you are driving though New Mexico, do yourself a favor. Stop for a couple hours and just walk around Santa Fe. It is truly an experience. For those who probably never will, here are some pictures (and a video of when we first arrived there) for you to enjoy. As the video goes, I'm sorry it was really windy but the point of it was that we were in this nice place and we were wearing gym shorts and DC clothes. But it worked. Enjoy.

The first piece of art we saw when we arrived

Two more random pieces of art

Just a guy and some balloons

Money Fence

The most expensive cat I have ever touched

Indian on bingo cards

It was hard to follow directions...

Cool painting

They mean business in New Mexico

Street Life

Bronze Bears

Tom Sawyer???

Pointing to the Heavens

Running with the wolves

This Chapel contained a famous staircase

Seen here

But it also had some cool art as well

We just really liked this picture

My biggest catch of the trip

So while he is chllin at this moment, the next minute he was gettin bit up by the ants that were also on that tree

Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 10 - Nothingness of New Mexico

*The following are videos we took from our road trip back in May. It consisted of traveling from Alabama to California and back, hitting various cities in between. Some of these videos may be "documentary style" and some may be just random videos along the way. Most will not have an explanation because the video should speak for itself, but for the random ones a lil explanation will be included. I know on the surface these are kind of lame, but hopefully you will enjoy them and feel like you were a part of a cross country road trip. If you just feel like you are watching some random kids in random videos, well I hope you enjoy that too.

The "Welcome" building when we entered New Mexico.

Our view for the entire drive through New Mexico

One of the few other cars we actually saw on the road

I'm not exactly sure, but I wanna say that there is snow on the mountain. I could be wrong.

**Like one of the previous videos, I apologize for it being zoomed in so you can barely see in the car. However, you can clearly see outside of the car. And if you stick around till the end, you will what our sense of humor consists of.

Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 9 - Craziness In Lubbock

*The following are videos we took from our road trip back in May. It consisted of traveling from Alabama to California and back, hitting various cities in between. Some of these videos may be "documentary style" and some may be just random videos along the way. Most will not have an explanation because the video should speak for itself, but for the random ones a lil explanation will be included. I know on the surface these are kind of lame, but hopefully you will enjoy them and feel like you were a part of a cross country road trip. If you just feel like you are watching some random kids in random videos, well I hope you enjoy that too.

**Today's pic is some family pics. After a brief stop at my grandparents on our first night, this was our first stay over at a big family's place. My Lubbock family, who before this I hadn't seen since 2001, welcomed us with open arms. It was a great experience. So while there are no actual road trip, these are some family photos, along with a video showcasing the insaneness of getting a big family together.

My cousin Kayla, who is the closest in age to myself (I am the oldest of all the cousins in our family, and she is one year and one day behind)

And this is me with one(!) of her two kids, which makes it feel kinda weird to be older than her

This is a group pose with my Aunt Kim, cousin Spencer and Uncle Reg

This is me acting like I didn't a thing about video games and getting Spencer to teach me (while Kayla's other kid is trying to get him with a coat hanger). Little did I know that my cousin would embarrass me in video games a few minutes later.

This is Frisco with my family's new dog. Who is playing with a toy more than three times his size.

My cousin Alicia, who freaked me out by growing up so much in the 8 years since I had last seen her, stopped by to say hey, which I thought was real cool

So we did some posing

Then got laughed at for doing some posing

Then we finally got it together and did the Texas Tech salute

***Here is our current route:

And here is the video:

Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 8 - Two For The Post of One

*The following are videos we took from our road trip back in May. It consisted of traveling from Alabama to California and back, hitting various cities in between. Some of these videos may be "documentary style" and some may be just random videos along the way. Most will not have an explanation because the video should speak for itself, but for the random ones a lil explanation will be included. I know on the surface these are kind of lame, but hopefully you will enjoy them and feel like you were a part of a cross country road trip. If you just feel like you are watching some random kids in random videos, well I hope you enjoy that too.




And the result...

Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 7 - Texas Hotness

*The following are videos we took from our road trip back in May. It consisted of traveling from Alabama to California and back, hitting various cities in between. Some of these videos may be "documentary style" and some may be just random videos along the way. Most will not have an explanation because the video should speak for itself, but for the random ones a lil explanation will be included. I know on the surface these are kind of lame, but hopefully you will enjoy them and feel like you were a part of a cross country road trip. If you just feel like you are watching some random kids in random videos, well I hope you enjoy that too.

**Sorry for the video quality. I didn't realize how bad it was zoomed in. But at least you got to see what we saw as we were driving :)

Calibama Road Trip Videos: Part 6 - Picture Edition

*So today is not a post of videos. Those will resume on Sunday (because of the every other day posts I've been trying to accomplish). Since I started this series, I have been going back and forth on whether or not I should be including pictures. Thanks to a comment from Tennyson on the last post, I've decided to give it a go. Now, he asked for some scenery, and while these are mostly pics from us, I do believe it will be a good amount of scene photos as well. S0 instead of going back and editing past posts, I will just post these pics that should have been added with previous blogs. Now that the kinks have been worked out, Sunday will resume videos, map, and now photos.

Saying goodbye to our cars (we were using his mom's car for the trip)

The picture Jme took of us with her (new at the time) camera

Frisco's Mississippi family

The sun was setting on our first all day driving experience

First of many bridges we would cross

The picture doesn't do it justice, but I swear we though we saw a UFO. Or maybe we were just tired?

This was a piece of stone my grandparents took from their old house. She liked how a heart was carved into it.

The awesome waffles we had for breakfast

Posing with the grandparents