0615 Wake up the girls.
0630 Breakfast
0722 All loaded and ready to go.
0724 Leaving hotel.
0730 Stop for gas. $3.48/gallon
0751 Make it to I-15 South. 257 miles to Los Angeles
0803 Passing a prison next to the Gold Strike Casino
0812 California!
Two casinos and an outlet mall at the state line (on the Nevada side!)
0825 Cresting a mountain pass – 4,730 feet
0853 Baker, CA – Gateway to Death Valley and the Mojave
Desert
0900 Zzyzx Road.
Really? Who named this road?
0930 See a closed water park. Ryan thinks it’s weird to see a water park in
the desert that isn’t open.
0934 Whew – we passed our agricultural inspection.
0940 Ghost Town Road
0945 Made it to Barstow.
Elevation, 2,170 feet. Current
temperature, 84 degrees
0953 Stop for gas in Lenwood.
1014 Leaving
Lenwood after also stopping at McD’s for drinks.
1035 Victorville.
The kids are hungry so we stop at In-n-Out Burger. Yum!
Welcome back to California!
1055 Leaving Victorville
1110 Ron called to see where we are. He is still at the airport in San
Francisco. Who will get there first?
1158 Pasadena
12:10 p.m. Burbank
12:14 p.m. On 101 North – our first LA traffic jam. Oh yay.
12:40 p.m. Agora Hills
1:05 p.m. Conejo.
Another traffic jam.
1:36 p.m. Pacific Ocean!
1:40 p.m. Another traffic jam! Ugh!
2:11 p.m. Santa Barbara, elevation 33 feet
2:15 p.m. Potty
and snack break at McD’s in Carpenteria
2:46 p.m. Need a
break from driving. Way too many traffic
jams today. Stop at Mission Santa
Barbara to stretch our legs.
3:00 p.m. See Lake Cachuma
3:08 p.m. Ron called – he beat us home.
3:14 p.m. Santa Ynez River
3:28 p.m. Lots of vineyards out here.
3:32 p.m. Los Alamos, CA
3:45 p.m. Santa Maria – getting close
3:53 p.m. See a sign for Arroyo Grande – only 12 more
miles!
4:03 p.m. Exiting in Arroyo Grande
4:11 p.m. Home
sweet new home! Ending mileage is 91,358
which makes our total trip mileage just 4,474 miles. I think this is our shortest Big Trip ever.
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