the great salt lake! another travel adventure memory

So ive been wanting to write this for a week or two now, just been so busy with working that i havnt had the time. so i heard a song by band of horses called: The great salt lake. and it made me think of this:

 I remember back when i lived in california, my girlfriend at the time, Amy and i, drove out to her mom's house in the desert for the weekend, actually Temecula. We drove my 65 dodge dart gt, which i bought for $500 and just had to do a tiny bit of wiring to and it ran like a champ! anyways.. this song reminded of driving back from her moms house... we left around 3 pm.. through the desert.. hot! i mean really hot! drving a car with no a/c but i loved it!  to me it was beautiful, watching the highway disappear into the heat waves coming off the road ahead of us, the dry dust,sand and rocks everywhere.. looked like i was driving on some sort of alien planet. 90% of the drive back Amy was bitchin about the heat.. and how we shouldve taken her car instead. But i wanted to take mine, give it some good milage since it sat for a while before i got ahold of her. But i pretty much tuned Amy out and just drove, getting lost in my own head while driving through such weird surroundings. Surreal? yes very. We had to stop and grab some grub on the way back and let the car cool down, so we stopped for a bit, she actually appologized for acting the way she was. But she said she did like riding in the car through the desert, at least i wasnt the only one who enjoyed it.
 After about an hour, we hopped back into the dart and fired her up, we took our time on the way back, stopped off a few more times to some weird roadside stands for drinks and to check out the view. i wanted to stall time so i could drive through at dusk.. or at least while the sun was setting. I remember the purples and oranges of the sky that night. the cool desert breeze coming through the windows. my elbow propped out the drivers window like a fin of a shark cutting the surface on its way towards its prey. My other arm around amy, smiling and talking about the most random things... her eventually falling asleep against my shoulder on the drive.

 the more i think back the more i loved driving that day... all in all it was an eye opener into what this world has, all the terrain, the possibilities of being able to drive to anywhere, adventure, seeking out something or just spending time with someone and enjoying every second of it no matter whats going on. ive been doing that my whole life, enjoying the company of others. I may show it differently but there are small things i do, maybe its the way i look at someone, the way i smile at them, or even the amount of eye contact... i will always remember that day in the desert... it was a great day!! .. i love when random memories pop up and reveal themselves...