Susanne Meyer needed to get to Houston, where she was going to stay with a roommate. I had the Kung San — the Land Rover 109" Station Wagon — and a blue tarp strapped to the roof. San Francisco Victorians behind us in the photo.

We left. The roommate fight happened before we arrived. The weather was awful. We turned around and came home.

Midway through, we stopped in Denver and met her friend. I thought she was cool. I never saw her again, but that visit may have influenced my later decision to move to Denver.

We stopped at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo on the way — the Ant Farm installation of half-buried, graffitied Cadillacs.

I am not a fan of flappy blue tarps.

Photo labeled as “SF arrival” for years — corrected 2026-06-04. The actual SF arrival via Highway 50 is a different trip; that’s the Denver→SF move in 1990.