I-10/35/40/5/8/10 road trip

Got back from the road trip to LA and went straight to the beach, so now is the first time I have to post some of the pics. It was a solo trip, and there was a lot of driving, but only the part between San Diego and El Paso sucked...and I mean really fricking sucked. I wouldn't ever suggest anyone making that drive. It was horrible. The rest of the driving wasn't bad at all. I only got one ticket in Lordsburg, NM. It is a legit, make no bones about it, speed trap. Waze, V1, and laser jammer kept me safe the rest of the time.

Couple notes:

The entire city of Dallas is under road construction
Amarillo is pretty boring
The mountains between Amarillo and Flagstaff are all completely flat on top
Petrified forest and painted desert blew. If you ever have the opportunity, don't go
Flagstaff is pretty awesome
Altitude made me dizzy and have a headache for an hour
The morning I left Flagstaff, it was 58 degrees
Feather indians are all very poor
Grand Canyon is pretty cool, but they need guardrails
Hoover Dam has traffic
Las Vegas is very cheesy
LA literally smells like a dump and there is smog everywhere from the 40 million people on the road at all times
California and Louisiana were the only places with 70mph speed limits that I went through
Between LA and San Diego is beautiful
San Diego to El Paso on I-8 is horrible
Why do people live in the desert?
Border fence is only 6ft tall, but the people who make it that far 100% deserve to be here. Don't think so? Drive out there and take a look at the scenery
El Paso is VERY Mexican
18 wheeler fires are big
El Paso to New Orleans only took about 13.5 hours, with lots of traffic
Props to the big rig drivers who can make it up and down the passes between Vegas and LA and the one south of San Diego

I don't know what it is about you Texas drivers. Either they breed yall as idiots, you can't read, or you can't count. I spent hours more time passing left lane riders from San Antonio to Lake Chuck than I did passing people correctly. Congrats for promoting my extremely agressive driving.

I also discovered that I definitely take trees and bodies of water for granted

Pics:

Lots of windmills in Northern TX and Southern NM/AZ


Some cut through a mountain in AZ. Texas cuts were completely vertical, but everywhere else was not


Flat mountains



A vertical wall at this gas station in Indian territory. Their highest octane everywhere was 89


Arizona Snowbowl. I stayed right at the entrance to this road (7000ft), but this was at the parking lot (8900ft)


Riding up some rocky/muddy trail on the mountain. This was pretty awesome


Grand Canyon is a big hole in the ground



Road to the Hoover Dam


Pat Tillman Bridge


Hoover Dam


Some river/lake that touches the Hoover Dam


Surfing competition between San Diego and LA



I tried to get a pic of this chick's arse, but it was too far away


Desert in CA




El Centro, CA temp while moving


Border fence



Border Patrol checkpoint


This road was straight for about 20 miles


One of the two 18 wheeler fires I drove past in TX. From the first pic to the last one was under 5 minutes