Showing posts with label Trip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trip. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Trip 2003

Back in the summer of 2003, four men set out on a roadtrip to see (almost) all the major league ballparks on the west coast. "Trip 2003", as it was affectionately known, was a smashing success.



Using only a rental car and a turn-by-turn trip plan calculated by the new-fangled "MapQuest", Trip 2003 made stops in:
- Seattle (Seattle Mariners)
- Carmel, CA (for some fishin')
- Oakland (Oakland Athletics)
- Los Angeles (LA Dodgers)
- Anaheim (Los Angeles ofAmerica's Anaheim Angels)
- San Diego (San Diego Padres)
- Arizona (Arizona Diamondbacks)
- Las Vegas (??????, ???????, and a quick round of ????????)

Our only real plan for accommodations was to book our flights and our first hotel in Seattle. After that, we used Jason's trusty lap-top computer and Priceline.com to book rooms in whatever the next city was. Only in Anaheim did we find ourselves driving around aimlessly looking for a room, actually racing another weary group from hotel lobby to hotel lobby until we found a vacancy.

Trip was truly an amazing event.

WARNING: There are 309 pictures from the trip, and they are not quite "sequential". If you're interested, have at it!