Sunday June 20th, 2004

Leaving for the airport occurred at 4 am. After only an hour of sleep, technically a nap, I awake and get my shit together. We leave the house and head to IAH. I am really fucking tired, but that does not phase me. Once we have checked in and went through security, we wait for boarding. We board, and when the plane takes off, I am asleep. A two hour (or so) flight to PHX (Sky Harbor Int. Airport), we touch down to a well welcomed feeling, Dry Heat. Starbucks is open, so I acquire a cup of coffee. It is a two hour layover and me and my brother sit outside drinking our coffee, discussing �Trainspotting� and �Global Frequency�. Before we know it, we are back inside getting Crosandwiches at Burger King. They are remarkably good, but one is filling. Back outside to the dry heat to enjoy a few cigarettes. We pass through the security checkpoint again then to board the plane to our destination ABQ, where again I fall asleep on the plane. ABQ comes up quicker than I thought. After we deboard the flight to get our luggage, we end up waiting for what seems for-fucking-ever. One of the carusels is out, so our luggage will be coming out of another place. If that wasn�t it, then we had to wait for my brother�s friend �MN� to come get us. He is cool and funny. He agrees to take us to the rental car place and we run into a snafu, the place requires a huge ass deposit on the rental before they can release the car. I can understand that, but they required a credit card that has $300 available to be held or a debit card with $500. $500? Like, what the fuck is with that shit. This is absolutely crazy. Problem, my bro only has $300 on his debit card and $230 on a credit card. I had enough on my credit card, but I am 20, so I couldn�t do it because I am underage. Fuck this, I rented from them before back home and they didn�t give a shit (they still got paid). Whatever, we�ll be back tomorrow. We then head to my bro�s best friends apartment �M�. Nice place, really clean. Once everyone, �K� & �S�, get home, we decide to go bowling. I suck, but I didn�t know I would do that bad. Whatever, it was fun. Then we went to Taco Bell and came home and watched �The Shield� on DVD. Fucking great show, then it got late and they had to work in the morning. Goodnight.

Monday June 21st, 2004

Waking up in the afternoon in the summer is definitely a feeling that no one should have. It was about noon actually when I got up, I was awaken by the sound of �K� & �S� having lunch. �K� had a salad I think, who the fuck knows what �S� had. They leave as we get up and watch a couple episodes of �The Shield�. Get ready as �S� takes us to the bank, as I withdrawal some money from my account to give to my bro to add into his account for the car, then to get the car. It was a painless process. We got a Focus, it isn�t that bad of a car but it has no CD player and almost no acceleration (balls). My bro and I follow �S� to his work to get directions to a place for lunch. That night after everyone is home, we decide to go to �Gardunios� in ABQ. Really fucking good Mexican food, by the time we arrive, they are about to close in half an hour. We are still welcomed in with open arms, except our waitress was a bit moody. I didn�t get exactly what I ordered, but fuck it, I was hungry for Green Chile and Sopapillas. Back to the apartment, were we proceed to complete �The Shield� DVD set. We were up until six in the fucking morning watching it. Goodnight.

Tuesday June 22nd, 2004

Wake up after noon again. I am starting to hate this. After getting ready, we get our shit together and have lunch. After lunch we head to Farmington. We arrive in good time, about two and a half hours. We immediately make contact with one of the people we came to visit. They were just about to leave, so it was agreed upon that we will get together tomorrow afternoon. Once in Aztec, we meet up with �A� at the house. It is a lot better looking than some of the photographs that I have seen months prior. We drop our shit off there. We head to Farmington to go bowling, three games and I sucked even worse. I have blisters still on my thumb joint where the thumb hole was on the ball Sunday. When we are finished, we head back to the house. It was there when my bro and �A� decide to get drunk, �A� got wasted but my bro was just barely buzzed. I stay sober, because I do not drink. We play a game of �Battle of the Sexes�. Then we hit the sack. Goodnight.

Wednesday June 23rd, 2004

We wake up after noon once again. This repetitious shit is really starting to suck. Two cigarettes make up breakfast, no coffee. My lack of the lovely java brew is really showing. We try to call and visit family and friends, we are unable to contact anyone. We decide to say fuck it and try back Saturday before we leave. Once �A� comes home, we are off again. This time we go to dinner with our aunt �G� and her ass-clown husband. We get to this place that is about fifteen minutes before it is to close. They are kind, not like previously at �Gardunios�. They brought along my uncle �Sh�. He looked well. It was then and there that we decided to go to a newer nightclub in Farmington, �Big City�. We (me, my bro, �A�, & �Sh�) were there for about three hours. We played pool, air hockey, and foosball. My bro got kinda buzzed, and �A� was about drunk. So I drove to the house and we went to sleep. Goodnight.

Thursday June 24th, 2004

We wake up rather early, before noon even. This was great. We were out and about at about 11 am. We got lunch at Taco Bell and went and visited our step-grandmother, ate, and talked. We were there for about two hours, it was nice and all but I think that she is slipping in her late age. It is tragic how we get when we get older. After we get back to the house, we grab our shit and get back on the road to ABQ. We get in around 6 pm. �S� & �M� are at home, we decide to go to a bar & grill called �Sneakersz�. Nice pizza but greasy. We played a couple of games and left off to a strip club. This was fun, we were there for about four hours. I got three lap dances and four table dances, it was great. Except �S�, �M�, and my bro think that I let loose some semen because they claimed they had seen a wet spot on my pants. Why the fuck they were looking in the first place is beyond me. They kept hounding on me throughout the night and called me �Pervert� non stop. I brushed it off without any worry. We got back to the apartment and watched �Bader Santa�, it was funny. My bro passed out drunk, everyone went to bed. Goodnight.

Friday June 25th, 2004

I am awaken before noon, kinda rudely. So we go get lunch at �Stone Face�, a nice tavern. The fucking burger I had there was massive. Half pounder with green chile and barbeque sauce, hmm, it was great. We go out to the mall and Best Buy then return to the apartment. My cousin �C� then calls, he is the first person that we got a hold of since we got here. So we go to his house and see his son, then go to dinner. We all had a good dinner, my bro and cousin drank while �M� and I enjoyed a cold Coke. When they finished their third or fourth pitcher, the others decided to go back to the strip club. I only spent about ten bucks during this trip and got an autograph from a porn star. We got back to the apartment and watched TV for a bit before sleep. Goodnight.

Saturday June 26th, 2004

We wake up moderately early, enjoy lunch and head up to Farmington. When we get there, we immediately make contact with our uncle and visit with him for a while. He looks good, they redid their house. I saw my cousin for the first time in years, he now has a kid that looks just like him. I saw his wife for the first time, she looks alright. His daughter is a spitting image of him, it is just uncanny. It is creepy. We leave, only to return when everyone else gets there. We then go to our second person that we meant to see, they were home. They were our old neighbors from the house we grew up in. We spoke for about an hour, caught up on things, and reminisced about the past. Good times. When we got done visiting, we went back to our uncles and visited with our aunt. She doesn�t look like a grandmother, more like a mother. It is just strange seeing how time goes by, I am 20 and I feel old because I am the last of the Herrera clan. Almost everyone of my cousins are getting married, having children, graduating from college, and establishing themselves. The thought kinda brings a tear to my eyes. Shut up �M�. After we are done visiting, we head back to ABQ. We arrive around eleven p.m. We stay awake by watching a movie, I cant remember which one, and fucking around on the net by going into chat rooms and pissing people off. This leads into�

Sunday June 27th, 2004

Yeah, no sleep. We get our shit together, shake hands, say our goodbyes, then we are on our way. We get to the car rental place, return the car, and head to the airport. We smoke a couple of cigarettes, pass through security, and board the plane. We have another layover in PHX, so when we get there, we get breakfast. I had a crossaunt club from this place called �Paradise�. Fitting title for the food. Coffee, cigarettes, security, and then board the plane. We arrive late due to extreme weather conditions and air traffic (air traffic, what the fuck, the air is one huge ass open highway, really what the fuck?). We are back home, I change a bit after I get into my room (I wore the same thing for 24 hours). This concludes our vacation. It was great seeing everyone, seeing how much �home� has now become more alien to me, and realizing that nothing stays golden for long. Goodnight.

posted at 02:07 on 07.01.2004
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