6/23, 7pm:
We arrive in Sacramento and collapse shortly thereafter.

6/24, 12pm:
We leave Sacramento headed to ... San Francisco??? After calling rental office after rental office, we learn that tow dollies are in short supply, and we are forced to return to the office in SF where we reserved ours.

6/24, 2pm:
Arriving in SF, we get a crash course in car towing and let Ryder have an earful. We set off for good at 3pm.

6/24, 4:30pm:
We pass where we stayed last night. Grrrrr...

Veronica driving along, looking particularly chipper despite all the crap that is happening to us.

6/24, 5pm:
Gas up in Lincoln, CA: $49, 26.8 gallons, 338 miles = 12.6 mpg.

Ted's pathetic attempt to grow a beard. This is roughly a week's growth.

6/24, 5:15pm: More problems ... the safety pin for one of the ramps on the tow dolly has fallen off, which we noticed since the ramp makes a nice grinding sound on the road when going 60 mph. Ted jury-rigged it on with a bike cable and the lock from the truck bay. We'll see how that works.
	The ramp, complete with Ted's ad hoc solution to the missing safety pin problem.

6/24, 5:45pm:
Veronica just drove 20 miles uphill with the parking brake on ... ugh.

The road starts sloping upwards as we head into the Sierras. Pretty though.

After cresting the mountains we arrive in the biggest little city in the world, Reno, Nevada.

6/24, 5:15pm: Into Nevada and more drama. During our second refueling the gas cap lid broke off, leaving the plug in the tank! Are we cursed? Anyway: $42.97, 23.9 gallons, 198.1 miles = 8.3 mpg. That could be low because of Veronica's driving with the parking brake on. And the hills.
	Adding to our collection of broken truck parts, here is the portion of the gas cap that Veronica was able to remove from inside the tank.

6/24, 9:10pm:
I won't go into it, but they're not just whistlin' Dixie when they tell you never to back up with the tow dolly on.

6/25, 1am:
We arrive in Elko. The lock and cable for the tow dolly ramp are gone ... guess that explains those funny noises we heard over the last 30 miles. Time to put this god awful day behind us.

6/25, 10:30am:
A new day, and things are looking up: Ted found a replacement pin for the tow dolly ramp at K-Mart, and got another padlock for the truck cargo bay. Also, the cargo area has now more or less settled, so we are ready to do some distance!

6/25, 11am:
Refuel: $31.94, 17.3 gallons, 199.2 miles = 11.5 mpg. A little better.

Ted drives along, looking pretty worse for the wear. Check out those sleepy eyes and slouching back.

A rather uninspiring shot of the Great Salt Lake, Utah. And some dead bugs on our windshield.

6/25, 3:15pm (MST):
Gas time again: $39.90, 25.9 gallons, 258.1 miles = 10.0 mpg. Damn mountains. Time for some Denny's.

6/25, 5:15pm:
Back on the road, and on to Wyoming.

A great shot of Table Rock in Wyoming. It may be in the middle of nowhere, but this state has got lots of great scenery.

6/25, 9:30pm:
Refuel in Rawlins, WY: $38.36, 23.8 gallons, 275.8 miles = 11.6 mpg. We're pushing on to Cheyenne and Nebraska tonight, assuming we can stay awake.

6/26, 1am:
We made it to Kimball, NB. A great day compared to the horror of June 24th.

6/26, 11:45am:
Refuel in Sidney, NB: $32.00, 21.8 gallons, 256.4 miles = 11.8 mpg. Lunchtime, then across the plains to Omaha.

6/26, 5pm (CST):
Gas time again, in Grand Island, NB: $49.66, 33.1 gallons, 262.6 miles = 7.9 mpg. Ouch! What happened?

6/26, 8pm:
We're just into Iowa, and although we don't really need gas, we're stopping because Ted's bladder is bursting. $21.04, 15.5 gallons, 148.6 miles = 9.6 mpg. Our gas mileage might be low because of the high winds in Nebraska.

Another few days of growth, but Ted's beard is still looking like Cliff's when they had the beard-growing contest on Cheers (a little advanced Boston reference there).

6/26, 11pm:
We've made it to Ames, IA. Time for our day off with Veronica's family.

Veronica's baby sister Ana makes breakfast for everyone on her shirt ...

... and then takes time off to be silly on the couch.

Ted decides to abandon the full-blown beard and try his luck with a goatee.

6/28, 3:15pm:
Onward ho, with recharged batteries.

6/28, 4:30pm:
We stop in eastern Iowa for gas: $35.64, 24.1 gallons, 237.1 miles = 9.8 mpg.

Not the most scenic shot of the old Mississippi, but then what do you expect when taking photos from a big truck going 60 mph?

6/28, 8:30pm:
Our gas-guzzling truck is thirsty again, this time about 50 miles from Chicago. $36.64, 24.6 gallons, 250.1 miles = 10.2 mpg. Our mileage seems to have leveled off at 10 mpg. We get back on the road after a brief shopping stint at Wal-Mart.

6/29, 2am (EST):
Across Indiana and into Ohio and the final time zone.

6/29, 1:15pm:
Refuel: $29.66, 22.7 gallons, 222.6 miles = 9.8 mpg. Boy, Ohio sure does *not* rock.

6/29, 5pm:
More gas: $24.91, 20.1 gallons, 218.0 miles = 10.8 mpg.

6/29, 10pm:
Stopping time, in Danville, PA. Rural Pennsylvania is pretty but is getting rather boring. One day to Boston!

6/30, 11:15am:
Gas up and go: $37.68, 24.3 gallons, 257.8 miles = 10.6 mpg.

6/30, 12:30pm:
Gased up, tummies full ... let's do it!

A shot of the Hudson River taken from the Newburgh Beacon Bridge, in New York.

6/30, 4:45pm:
Probably our last refuel on the road, in Southington, CT: $38.16, 21.9 gallons (back to real world gas prices .. boo), 249.8 miles = 11.4 mpg.

6/30, 7pm:
Our last rest stop (*sniff*), and just in time! The last 15 miles were driven through a torrential thunderstorm. But we've made it to Marlborough, MA, about 30 miles from Boston.

7/1, 10am:
We're at our new home! The final statistics: 6 days/52 hours driving time, 3146.2 miles, average speed 61.0 mph.

Before giving up on the whole facial hair thing altogether, Ted sees what he would look like as a police officer. Eek!