Just after the Fourth of July, my best friend and I headed out from Austin and lit out west, ending up in San Francisco by way of New Mexico, Arizona and LA.

We met up with a mutual friend and stayed at his place for a few days, then the three of us drove up to Portland and then Seattle.

After dropping off our third in SF, the two of us went back east through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado, where we spent a few nights in Denver sleeping through the day and soaking up their crazy public art.

From there, I dropped my friend off in Dallas and after a couple of days worth of hiatus, we drove out to New Orleans and spent 48 hrs there in the first week of August. As it turns out, just before it was devastated by Katrina.