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== Road Trip ==


'''Anna Reynet:''' So I drove from Kansas City to Little Rock, which is like a six-hour drive in just pelting rain.

'''Anna Reynet:''' And, you know, because it had like snowed and iced the day before I left Kansas City. So I was totally looking forward to being in Little Rock because the weather was warmer. But just drove in total rain. So I was like, this does not bode well for this trip. But I got there. We loaded up the van in the rain. And they do this so often. They like totally had a system for like how to load the van in the rain, which I was so impressed by. Nobody dropped an entire ink thing on their shoes, unlike Brad.

'''Anna Reynet:''' And then we left Monday around 1 or 2 o'clock. And we got as far as, I think, like Oklahoma or something. We didn't get very far the first day. And then the second day we drove through like Texas and we stopped at the Cadillac Ranch. And so we took pictures out there. And it was kind of windy, but the sky was clear. It was really nice. We had a ton of fun. We stopped at some restaurant, like the 72-ounce steak. It turns out to be like three and a half pounds of meat. We did not order that. But we stopped at all these like crazy different restaurant, like diners, like all along the road. And we went to like the Route 66 museum on the way out and drove through Albuquerque, which I used to live in Albuquerque. So that was kind of fun to just sort of see it. But, you know, we only had like three days to get out there. So we, you know, we didn't get to do a lot of stuff. But we tried to stop a few different places. We stopped in New Mexico and hit a couple little touristy places as well. I kept picking up anything that had green chilies in it. So we got like green chili, caramel, popcorn to bring back to Bob.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Oh my God.

'''Anna Reynet:''' Then I realized that like I basically carried around for like 10 days. So by the time I got it home, it was a little stale. But he was entertained anyway.

'''Anna Reynet:''' But yeah. It was, I mean, like I was surprised LA was colder. Like when we got there, it was raining when we got to LA. That was the crazy thing. Like it never rained in LA. And it rained. It was like just pouring rain when we got to LA. And like cars were sideways on the highway. Like they didn't know how to drive in the rain. They were like freaking out. And we're like, this is ridiculous.

'''Anna Reynet:''' It's like the way people in the South get when it snows. Yeah, exactly. They totally freak out. I'm surprised they weren't all at the store like buying bread.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Who did most of the drive? Who did most of the driving on the way?

'''Anna Reynet:''' On the way out, we basically split it half and half. And it's kind of funny because I usually drive a Mini Cooper and then I was driving this giant van. So it was a little bit of an adjustment for me.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So then you, you like have this. Go ahead.

'''Anna Reynet:''' Having to screw this seat back because, you know, Lisa's really tiny and I'm not much taller, but I had to really make adjustments.

'''Myke Hurley:''' So y'all get out to LA three days out. You have, we'll call it an interesting time at the LA Pen show.

'''Anna Reynet:''' Very interesting.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We need to belabor that point. And then Sunday night, y'all pack it up. Y'all head back out Sunday night or Monday?

'''Anna Reynet:''' We packed up, ate dinner, and then we wanted to at least get outside of LA so that we didn't hit rush hour traffic in the morning. So we drove like basically just to get on the other side of LA and we were no more than an hour outside of LA. It started to snow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Like the biggest snow that you've ever seen. This is when my phone starts blowing up for like the next two days, right? Like I want to know number one, like how insane the inside of the car was while y'all are driving through this mess.