Greetings from New Mexico

Finally. Internet. I'm such a specimen of the people I think are just sad. Who check their email every 5 seconds and whine when they can't. Actually no, I'm not. I'd much rather be out hiking looking for scorpions and cactus plants and grizzly bears. OK, Ali, my road trip companion and friend of 17 years, told me grizzly bears don't really hang out in Albuquerque. But in my vision of "the West," they do. I'm just getting the North-South part a little off.

Anyway, some people didn't think this trip was a good idea financially. True, I don't have a job yet in Atlanta. But some things I've done so far that have made it all worth it:
1. Drank hand grenades while walking down Bourbon Street in New Orleans, then met and chatted with a stripper in one of the classier strip clubs (according to the concierge at our hotel)
2. Met an animatronic LBJ in Austin
3. Hand fed giraffes in Abilene

Tomorrow we're going to try and visit some American Indian (Native American?) pueblos. All political correctness aside, I LOVE Indians and I have a feeling this is going to be the highlight of my journey.

As if it couldn't get any better, I just found out from my sister/roommate: two kittens will await me when I get home!