I'm baaaaack!

Hello Green Eggs & Glam readers, have you missed me while I was gone? I'm officially in San Francisco now! It feels sooooo good to be back online. For my first post back, I'm going to give a run-down of our food on the road while summarizing our roadtrip out here. We left Minneapolis last Sunday and spent our first night in Kearney, Nebraska. Not an exciting drive or exciting place. The drive through Southern Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska is pretty boring. All the scenery is flat farmlands. And before everything blooms in the spring, its quite brown and depressing. Our dinner in Kearney was Culver's, my boyfriend's favorite fast food restaurant that isn't on the West Coast. This looked like the last stop for Culvers!

Stop two was in Denver, Colorado to visit my best friend. The drive from Nebraska to Denver is still pretty flat and boring. The mountains aren't until after Denver. The road highlight from this day was all the signs warning, "Correctional facility ahead. Do not pick up hitchhikers." We had a hotel in Aurora, a suburb right next to Denver. That night we went for amazing sushi at a place downtown by Invesco Field, Sushi Sasa. I love the sushi places where you order off a check-list that you can just give to the server. The sake and wine was pretty good too.... 

After leaving Denver, we started our drive through the mountains, which was slightly trecherous, but gorgeous! The mountains continued into Utah. It's amazing how many colors mountains can be. Utah is a spectacular drive, with the mountains and the canyons. But most of the freeway is through national parks, so make sure you know how far it is to the next town. Sometimes there won't be a gas/food/hotel stop for 120 miles! We stayed in Salina, Utah. Small, boring. We ate at some Mexican restaurant, which wasn't very Mexican at all.

Day four we dipped down to Las Vegas, Nevada to visit one of my old college roommates. She took us out on the strip. There's nothing more amusing than being able to wander around the streets with a drink in hand. We went to a Mexican restaurant, Dos Caminos in the Palazzo, for dinner. The margaritas, guacamole, and pulled pork were delicious! Her house is in Henderson, so for brunch the next morning went to M casino and spa and ate at Hash House A Go Go. My boyfriend loved it because their portions are gigantic.

Day five we arrived in California. We spent the night in some small orange growing town I don't even know the name of. And of course now that we were on the West Coast, dinner had to be at In N' Out Burger! I love their burgers, although honestly, the fries are not so spectacular. 

We left early the next morning and arrived in San Francisco! 2,200 miles of road in 6 days with two crazy cats in a 1998 Mazda Milenia. A trip to always remember....