The Long Awaited Request Page

As far as vacations go this one has been particularly tiring in that we have had to juggle the fact that we have had no clue where we were going from hour to hour, with documenting it as it happened. This kind of journalism took place mostly in the car rides from place to place and whenever we stopped for food.

This left little time for writing the content much less digitizing the pictures and coding them as well. What we came away with though is a pretty good representation of our vacation stripped down to the PG-13 version. Making friends in this town was extremely easy, and I have to say they are some of the nicest people we have ever met, but after hanging around with them for a while, we realized that little they told us or showed us would ever see the light of day on our web site!

I hope you've enjoyed the trip so far. We are sad to see it almost over, but then again, we are constantly amazed that we ever made it at all. For what it is worth, we have made a list along the way of the requests people have made. Some were reasonable, others were a little more difficult, so we did our best with the time we had to create your request page.

"You Asked For It And By Golly We Got It!"

Dustin Drase writes:

Yea, I would like a picture of some corn and cute girls...

Well Dustin, we tried and tried to find a living stalk of corn in the plains, but I'm afraid it is out of season, at least that's what we were told by the farmer who caught us rooting around in his field. So we figured we would find the New Mexican equivalent, the Corn Cactus! Doesn't taste very good, but it's fun to look at!

And as for cute girls, Dustin, we guys don't take your requests lightly when it comes to women. So not only did we get you one, but eight beautiful women! When they heard that this picture was going up on the web site for you they actually stopped serving their tables and ran over to us. Way to go Dustin!

Sharon and Frank Dugan write:

A picture of a nice flower bed would be nice...

Okay mom, we found the most beautiful flower bed near Carlsbad, NM at the Quick N' Go Gas Mart. The cashier said that it was designed by a small firm in town and took 2 weeks from start to finish. And as a little test, here is a wild flower we found in the desert. Can you identify it?

Laura Brown wrote:

Stopping on the road at a place that has nothing else surrounding it is a must.

The Guys write: Well Laura there was plenty of that on the drive, so to pay homage to states with nothing interesting to look at, here's to you and Laura back East.

Julie Benson writes:

You might want to start asking people if they've ever seen or heard any UFOs or if they've been abducted.

Jonny's UFO story #1: One early evening he was riding out in the desert with some buddies when they spotted a bright light over the mountain range that at first they thought was a planet or star, until it began to move. They watched it for several minutes and began to drive toward it when it suddenly shot straight up into the sky and disappeared.

Jonny's UFO story #2: On a bright afternoon, Jonny was returning home from his charity work at the orphanage when he saw a solid cigar-shaped object with four detached lights orbiting around it flying off the highway. He and many other cars pulled over to watch the strange object. The object was witnessed by so many people that it made the front page the next day.

Larry Warner wrote:

"Find me a local micro-brew from Roswell..."

The Guys write: Hey Larry, we searched high and low for a Roswell micro-brew, but found that they were no longer brewed because the local place it was made for went out of business. But we got the next best thing, a poster of its label. If we had found it Jerry and yourself would have had a six pack, though a local guy said it would probably be pretty awful by now. We also found a wine label from California catering to Roswell with a UFO and all for you Frank.

Jerry Labuy wrote:

...streaking would be cool..."

The Guys write: What's this unidentified flying object? Well Jerry, only you would ask for such an odd request, but like we said, this vacation is your vacation, and if you want streaking, let there be streaking!

*Seconds after Dave took off on this sprint, three locals came tearing around the corner in their pickup truck, parking ten feet away from Dave who struggled to pull up his shorts. They wouldn't talk to us very much when we greeted them.

Jim Lafager writes:

You need to stop at a book store and get the book Cosmic Trigger by Anton Wilson. It's all about conspiracy stuff and would be perfect for your trip!"

The Guys write: Well Jim, we're glad you keep on top of the stuff that slips by us because we picked up your book and read it on the trip. Unfortunately the book began unlocking the parallel dimension in our car in which the astro-cyclic plane of souls was unleashed, sending hordes of minions into our glove box to eat our Fritos and poke at our feet as we drove. Very cool read. Thanks.

Scott Foreman wrote:

I want to see you pictured in front of all the state border signs on your trip."

The Guys write: Scott, we too wanted to do this, but on the ride down we kept passing them at 90 miles an hour, so on the return trip we will do our very best to carry this request out. However, we did hit one particular state border that we feel you would appreciate the most.