Top 12

It's American Idol night, and the great thing about it is we are down to the final 12. Finally! Sadly there are a few singers in the top 12 who didn't deserve to make it past the 2nd round, but somehow they are onto the finals... If you don't follow the show then most of this doesn't make much sense to you, but you don't know what you are missing out on.

Day two of our trip will be a drive of about 550 miles. We will be traveling through Reno and Lake Tahoe before heading on a detour south to visit a ghost town. Bodie, California is a ghost town near the California & Nevada boarder and was a mining town founded in the mid 1870's. Like I mentioned before, Bodie is what you think about when you think of the 'Wild West." Gunfights, gold miners, opium dens, saloons, bank robbers, prostitutes, claim jumpers, jail breaks and more. The town had well over 5000 residents in the 1880's and there are still over 120 buildings standing from the boom. It is one of the best ghost towns to see.

After Bodie we are going to be making our way over the Sierra Nevada mountains to Stockton, California where we are going to jump on the Interstate and head for Tracy, CA to spend the night just a few hours from San Francisco. Only 10 days until we leave!

Tonight is Pub Quiz night and hopefully we can improve from last week. I have looked at my atlas a few times and have a good refresher of my world countries, hopefully I won't forget by tonight! Until again

-=Nolan=-