LA/XC-3 SUMMARY LA/XC-32013 Total state tally LA/XC-3:  24 (Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware); last year, 26 Total state tally LA/XC-3 + LA/XC-2 + LA/XC-1 (combined): 35; additional states from LA/XC-1:  Oklahoma, South Dakota; additional states from LA/XC-2:  Iowa,...

Less than 48 hours later . . . LA/XC-32013 LA/XC-3 DAYS TWENTY-SEVEN AND TWENTY-EIGHT:  CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA;  ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA, AND WESTPORT, CONNECTICUT Day Twenty-seven mileage:  260 Day Twenty-eight mileage:  304 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 7,978.4 (FINAL!) Road music:  Sirius cycle; Eric Church (Carolina, Chief, Sinners Like Me); Hank’s 200 Favorite Songs Of All Time playlist Weather leaving Chapel Hill Tuesday afternoon:  84 degrees and brilliant sunshine ...

Finally, we got on a roll!  After three-and-a-half weeks of visiting people, the last few days of our trip we visited not Brinkley and me: Just two beagles chillin’ one, not two, not three, but four of my dog-friends.  In Chapel Hill, I got to meet Bingo, and I  have to admit, he’s way cooler than I thought.  (I said he looked like a squirrel last May in a Roof Rack Report  — partially because he’s a chihuahua-terrier mix, but mostly because I was jealous that he...

LA/XC-32013 LA/XC-3 DAYS TWENTY-THREE, TWENTY-FOUR, TWENTY-FIVE, AND TWENTY-SIX:  NASHVILLE, ATLANTA, AND CHAPEL HILL Day Twenty-three mileage:  462 Day Twenty-four mileage:  37 (in and around Nashville) Day Twenty-five mileage:  252 Day Twenty-six mileage:  393 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 7,414.4 If you don’t recognize her, then you don’t watch “Nashville” Road music:  Sirius cycle; Ashley Monroe (Like A Rose); Kip Moore (Up All Night); Keith Urban (Love,...

All right, so where the heck is the Pathfinder???  I could swear we left Westport in it.  And I’m positive we were still driving it when we reached L.A.  But today I woke up from just a quickie little nap and saw GMC on the center of the steering wheel where NISSAN used to be!  (Yes, I know my letters.  Please.)  What I’m wondering is, how long have we been riding in this car?  And when did we switch?  I never noticed any difference before today:  I mean, it’s a...

LA/XC-32013 LA/XC-3 DAYS NINETEEN, TWENTY, TWENTY-ONE, AND TWENTY-TWO:   LORDSBURG, NEW MEXICO; MARFA AND AUSTIN, TX; HOPE, ARKANSAS Day Nineteen mileage:  454 Day Twenty mileage:  399 Day Twenty-one mileage:  408 Day Twenty-two mileage:  397 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 6,270.4 Road music:  Sirius cycle; Little Big Town (Tornado); Loretta Lynn And Friends (Coal Miner’s Daughter:  A Tribute To Loretta Lynn); Monday Night Football; New Mexico Featured Artist: Ryan Bingham, Hobbs...

What is it with Beagle Man and my freakin’ bowls?  Has he told you yet, very modestly, that to pull off a trip like this, with all the miles of driving, and the sight-seeing, and the visiting, and the blogging, and staying in a different motel every night, you have to be really efficient and really organized?  Efficient?  Organized?  He’s lost six of my bowls since Me and the B-Man in Marfa, TX: Gee, he only lost two of my bowls today last Thursday!!!  He left my two...

LA/XC-32013 LA/XC-3 DAYS FIFTEEN, SIXTEEN, SEVENTEEN, AND EIGHTEEN:  PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY, SANTA CRUZ, BERKELEY, SAN FRANCISCO, SANTA MONICA/L.A;, EL CENTRO Day Fifteen mileage:  243.9 Day Sixteen mileage:  392.9 Day Seventeen mileage (in L.A.):  20.8 Day Eighteen mileage:  248.0 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 4,612.4 Road music:  The Highway; Tom Petty (Greatest Hits); Pistol Annies (Annie Up); Lady Antebellum (Need You Now); Blake Shelton (Based On True Story . . .); NFL Football ...

So we’re back in Santa Monica, staying at the Hotel California this time.  Right next door to the Loews.  Now correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t we just leave Santa Monica on Wednesday?  Only Beagle Man could come up with an itinerary like this one.  And I thought I’d made it pretty clear I’d had it with this place and wanted to hit the road again when — after three days of near-perfect behavior — I started peeing all over the room and the hallways. ...

LA/XC-32013 LA/XC-3 DAYS TWELVE, THIRTEEN, AND FOURTEEN:  L.A./SANTA MONICA, AND THE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY FROM SANTA MONICA TO CAMBRIA Day Fourteen mileage:  238.7 Total LA/XC-3 mileage: 3,689.2 Road music:  Joe Walsh (Analog Man); Neil Young (After the Goldrush; Greatest Hits); John Fogerty (The Long Road Home)  Weather leaving Santa Monica Wednesday morning:  81 degrees and mostly sunny Weather arriving Cambria Wednesday night:  65 and fair Three-day state tally: 1...