Summer Road Trip 23-1, Day 9 ... 10 ... etc.

lost a lot of good footage in and around this point. It may have been technological malfunction, or user error, or some combination. In any event ...

On day nine we went through crowded rainy hell along I-20 from Jackson, MS to Longview, TX, and we started rushing it a little more than we should've.

Toward the end of day ten we finally turned the corner north along US Hwy 84 and the 97th Parallel and slept in Lubbock.

On day eleven we made New Mexico, and then Arizona, and really started to come apart at the seams psychologically. We called a longer halt at home in Sand Rock (the 'middle' episode with Kali cat was made during it), and that was enough to get us the remaining 314 miles to our destination on the outskirts of Vegas on day twelve, and still have just barely enough in our soul tanks to get both trucks unloaded and parked empty at a storage place, a couple of miles from the Penske outpost, where we turned them back in early on the 13th day.