Kelly and Kai Road Trip - KellyandKai

It's Over :(

KellyandKai — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

My Dearest Kai, A.K.A Charanda -
You are on your way home to start a new and amazing life. I am so proud of you! This has been the most amazing experience of my life. I could not have and would not have wanted to do this with anyone other than you. I have never laughed this much in my life! This country will never be the same again! I am going to miss you terribily. We have made so many incredible memories together over the past four weeks, and even more over the past four years. You have been there for me without judgment through some of the most challenging times of my life and I appreciate your friendship more than you will ever know. You are a strong, itelligent, and beautiful woman. You inspire me to be a better person, I trully am blessed to have you in my life. I hope we take this trip as an opportunity to realize we can do anything we want as long as we believe it. Never forget how we felt ,everywhere we went, and take that feeling with you through life. Thank you for putting up with me. I am going to miss cuddling, and laughing, and singing, and daquiris, and planting, and dancing, and falling, most of all I am going to miss singing! I am going to miss you!!! FRIENDS FOR LIFE!!!!!!!
Free and Easy Baby,
Kelly

San Diego

KellyandKai — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We have been enjoying our last days together sitting on the beach and going out in San Diego. Had the best dinner ever at the Strip Club. We are so sad our trip is almost over.

Kelly the Grilling Queen at the Strip Club Restaurant

The Strip Club Restaurant

Best Potato thing ever!

Out in San Diego

Day 23 and beyond! California!

KellyandKai — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We drove through the desert for hours, sat in horiffic five lane bumper to bumper LA traffic and made our way to Santa Barbara. In Santa Barbara we jumped out of our car and ran straight to the beach.

We made it!!!

Santa Barbara

Baby Bearded Dragons

Day 22 Grand Canyon

KellyandKai — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We went to the Grand Canyon and then drove for miles through the desert to California.

Grand Canyon

Kelly at the Grand Canyon

Kai at the Grand Canyon

Strange

We drove through hours and hours of this

Day 20 and 21 Sedona, Arizona

KellyandKai — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Sedona made us feel like we were in a post card that is how amazing the landscape is here. It is one of the most calming places we have ever been to and we spent our time hiking on the Red Rock trails and sitting by the pool overlooking the mountains. One night at dinner we saw the moon rise over the mountains, it was incredible. This is definitley a place we will come back to. Off to the Grand Canyon.

Day 19 New Mexico

KellyandKai — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We spent the day driving through New Mexico to Arizona.

Interstate 40 New Mexico

Elvis enjoys the ride

New Mexico

Interstate 40 New Mexico

Day 17 and 18 Fort Worth, Texas

KellyandKai — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Cowboys, bull riding, and more cowboys! Fort Worth is definitley the home of the original cowboy. Almost everyone had on cowboy boots, very tight wranglers, and a cowboy hat. We went to a Honky Tonk at a place called Billy Bob's. It was a bar the size of a warehouse that had a mechanical bull and a real rodeo. While watching the rodeo we were appauled by the way they treat the bulls so we decided to leave early. I (Kelly) learned a valuable lesson - don't wear high heels to a rodeo! As we were leaving I slipped down the bleachers, fell in front of the whole crowd, tried to grab onto a one armed girl (who kai is convinced was in some sort of tractor accident), and my show went flying into the rodeo pit. After the Rodeo Clown gave me my shoe back we graciously left the Honky Tonk and stopped at the first Jack in the Box we saw. On our second day in Fort Worth we went to the Stockyards where I was victorius over Kai in our first ever, and last, Armadillo race. Kai obviously does not know how to control an Armadillo or blow on it's butt to make it run. After racing Armadillos, we decided the only racing we wanted to do was out of Texas. We packed up, put on our PJs, and headed west, as fast as we could. We made it to New Mexico by 1:00am, unscathed by the crazy hick fair we stopped at along the way (Let's just say we didn't stand out in our PJ's), or being pulled over and searched by the Texas State Trooper.

Stockyards

Good food and many a cowboy sighting

Sign outside a hardware and farm store in Benbrook

Cowboy thinks he is in a car

Billy Bob's Honky Tonk

Real nice buddy

Billy Bob's Rodeo

Armadillo

Crazy Armadillo Racers

We won Armadillo Milk

Texas Sunset

Fair

Day 15 and 16 Austin, Texas

KellyandKai — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Austin is a fun city with an amazing lake, lots of live music and a lot of individulality unlike any place we have ever been. Austin is filled with great independently owned stores and restaurants. We jet skied on Lake Travis and snuck on someones huge water trampoline and jumped like little girls until our jet ski floated away and we had to swim after it. Keep Austin weird.

We loooved this store

Pride and Joy Mexican Jazz Band

Playing guitar with his beer

Tarot Card Reader

Day 13 and 14 San Antonio, Texas

KellyandKai — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

San Antonio is by far the prettiest and most romantic place we have ever been. We strolled down the riverwalk, took a night time river cruise, and ate lots of Mexican food. We are sleep deprived from our horrific hotel, we do not recommend the Red Roof Inn. We went to the Alamo and decided David Crockett was awesome. Off to Austin next.

Some red building downtown

River Walk

Crazy Long Legged Bird

Our favorite restaurant on the water

Day 12 New Orleans to San Antonio

KellyandKai — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We drove 8 1/2 hours from New Orleans to San Antonio, Texas. We stopped at Cajun Tales before leaving and never want to eat fried food again.

Lousiana Swamps

Louisiana Swamps

What?!?

Bug Massacre on Kelly's Car

Texas Farmlands

Welcome to Texas

Texas Sunset

Day 10 and 11 New Orleans, LA

KellyandKai — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

24 hour bars, smell of vomit in the air, booty shaking contests, jazz bands and swimming in your clothes New Orleans is a non stop party city. It was a beautiful city with a lot of culture, amazing street artists, great food and a lot of evidence of hurricane Katrina still left.

Beignets at Cafe Du Monde

Powdered sugar all over the floor at Cafe Du Monde

French Quarter

Snake Man

View from hotel rooftop

French Quarter

Hotel pool on the rooftop

Kai's new friend

Live Music

New Orleans Fire Department

Kelly winner of the Booty Shakin Contest

Ready to party

Day 9 Biloxi, Mississippi

KellyandKai — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

From Tupelo we traveled down to Biloxi and got Magnolia tattoos on our necks at Jack and Diane's Tattoo Place. On the whole trip whenever we pick our destination we always put in Mangolia street and after all the fun we had in Mississipi we come to find its the states flower so it was the perfect tattoo to get to remember our trip. We hung out on hammocks by the ocean at the Hard Rock Cafe's Hotel during the day and at night we put on our best Sunday dresses and attempted to be saved at a Pentecostal church but they would not have us.

Elvis King of the Road

Gulf Coast

Kai on the Hard Rock Hotel's Hammock thing by the sea

Kelly's Magnolia Tattoo

Kai's Magnolia Tattoo

Kelly's Best Sunday Dress

We tried

Day 6, 7 and 8 Tupelo, Mississippi

KellyandKai — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We decided to stick with the Elvis theme and travel to Elvis's hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi. Our first night there we played bingo with the locals at Magnolia Bingo. On the second night there we met a group of really cool people who had a house party for us and one of them even let us keep his puppy pitbull for the day and renamed him Elvis as per our suggestion. We are loving the southern hospitality of Tupelo!

Elvis's birth home

Our new favorite store

Magnolia Bingo

Kelly and Mitch

DJ Tupelo aka Joe Dog and Mitch

Tupelo Friends

Elvis taking a bath

Elvis dresses up for Halloween

Elvis Pupsley

Day 6 Alabama- we came, we saw and we left...fast.

KellyandKai — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We drove through Alabama, saw some crazy trailers, confederate flag bumper stickers on every car and miles and miles of backwoods. We had quite an experience at the local thrift store where everyone knew we were not from around there based on our front teeth. We fed some cows granola bars and high tailed it to Mississippi.

Real Alabama Cows

Alabama Mall

Day 5 We Love Elvis!!!!!!!

KellyandKai — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

You can't go to Memphis and not visit Graceland. It is a site to see. Shag carpet on the ceiling, white fur round beds, and wooden furniture carved out to look like lions and tigers, oh my! We had to take a shuttle over the the grounds, that was an experience all its own. People go nuts for this stuff. One guy on our shuttle said that this experience changed his life :) We wanted to fit in so we wore the craziest Elvis t-shirts we could find, had matching Elvis pocketbooks, and Elvis glasses.

We have arrived!

Graceland

Hunka Hunka Mod Furniture

Living area

Hunka Hunka Tacky

Shag carpeting on the walls and ceiling!

Elvis's Grave

Flower Elvis

Strange Bear on Chair

Outfitted in Elvis

Day 3 and 4 Memphis

KellyandKai — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We drank from a gallon bucket of some kinda whiskey, beer and wine, enough said.

Kelly and Kai Beale Street

Kai at Silky O'Sullvians

Hunka Hunka Burning Love

Beale Street

The King

Beale Street

Dont even know what to say

Coyote Kelly on the bar

Save a horse

Day 2 Karoke, Cowboys, and Confederate Flags Oh My!

KellyandKai — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

From Roanoke we went to Litton's in Knoxville and had the best burgers of our lives then we were off to Nashville. Lots of Karoke, Cowboys, and Confederate flags. We love Nashville.

Kelly and Kai

Cowgirl Kelly and not so cowgirl Kai

Karoke Cowboy Lance

Kelly loooves him

Joey, Kai, Cowgirl Kelly, Cowboy Ray and Doug

Doug, Cowgirl Kelly, Joey and Kai

Forced to dance with crazy sweaty man

Day 1

KellyandKai — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Drove 500 miles our first day, we were very happy to get out of the Northeast - especially NJ. First stop was Roanoke VA. Let's just say they will never forget us.........

Claude William

Claude says his goodbyes

Car is packed and ready to explode

The car is packed 15917|center}} Backroads of Virginia

We have an annoucement

Lies

Dinner at Hooters

Kelly, Tish and Kai