The Big Drive - Los Angeles to Dallas

Our Los Angeles event went really, really well. We had great turnout and the entire thing lasted over 12 hours with a lot of people sticking around for the whole thing. After the event, which ended at around 9:45, we all took a cab back to the hotel to pack and shower. Then around 1:00 we headed out for the looooooong drive from Los Angeles to Dallas. Google says the drive is about 22 hours, but for us it was more like 24. Luckily we had a lot of stuff to do on the bus, so we didn't go *totally* crazy. Most of the time was spent coding or watching some movies in the evening.

Some of the guys woke up at 3:00 in the morning that night while we were driving in the Mojave Desert to stop, get out, and look at the stars. I wasn't one of them because I was sleeping, but they said it was really cool and that it was the clearest they had ever seen the Milky Way. They also said they saw satellites and a couple of shooting stars. We ended up getting into Dallas about 1:15 in the morning, which was 3:15 Dallas time, so we checked in and went to bed.

We've got a chat application up on Ted Patrick's website now, so if you want to chat with us while you're watching the live video feed, you should check it out. Plus we've got a lot of photos up on the Flickr feed.