Tuesday 09.23.08

We stopped in Stockton, or as I like to refer to it as "Stinkton" Man this place smells bad! Got in around 10pm, got a room, and fell into bed. I was tired!

I woke up around 4 AM and convinced myself I was crazy for being awake so early. So I went back to sleep about 100 times and gave it up at 6. We hit the road around 7AM.
Todays destination - Ensinada Mexico!

I have been almost child like in the things I have seen...eyes full of wonder. Lake Shasta was nearly empty. We went through a town called Weed. I wanted to get a picture of the sign that said "Weed, 3 miles" just cracked me up... as I'm sure it does a lot of people.
We're mostly just driving driving driving and not stopping much. Which is sort of a bummer for me, but I also want to get there as quickly as possible. So, it's all good.

I have done about 1/2 the driving, it sure didn't seem like we are on the road that many hours. It took us around 13 hours to get from Vancouver to "Stinkton" :-)

I'm intrigued about going through Tijuana...I'm guessing we aren't going to stop. lol I do have some concerns about going across the border. We have 2 HUGE big screen TV's in the back. No registration for the vehicle. It should be interesting. Anyone willing to fly down with some bail money? haha

This will be my last post until Cabo I'm sure. We can't use the laptop in Mexico, it's too expensive for the cell modem use. Maybe in Encinada they will have some sort of internet service. If not, I'll catch up in Cabo. I'm sure I'll have some pictures by then.

Hope everyone is doing well. I'm having a great time and seeing a lot of new things.

Bye for now.
Eydie

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It's 10:46 AM and we are nearing LA. It's 80 wonderful degrees! This piece of I-5 reminds me of Eastern Oregon or Washington. Long...flat.. brown... boring. Tasha asked me if we were going to stop in LA... I told her no. She said that we should so I can have an affair with a-list actor and make it big! Hmmm it's a thought.
I've just had my first In / Out burger. It was quite good.. that was breakfast. lol.
well... that's about it for now. I'm getting bored. Can you tell? :-)
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More 2:15 PM
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Well we just made it through LA! I drove through it.. I was unimpressed with what I saw... Of course I didn't get to see much since I was driving.. I had different expectations of what I would see though. I was, however, in Complete AWE over Magic Mountain and I wanted to stop so bad! It was the coolest thing I've seen so far. We are dropping down into San Diego..well 44 more miles and Steve promised we could stop for picture opportunities once we hit the coast. I'm sure it will be beautiful.

Ok.. I don't know where were are right now.. Maybe San Clemente? This is a pretty neat looking place. I'm a passenger now so I am typing and looking around and scribing as I'm going so forgive me if this is chattery (Yes that's a word cuz I said so) wow.. so many houses all built into the hill sides.. pretty neat!

WOW!! The ocean! this is AWESOME!!! I can see a ship in the horizon even though it's a little hazy. Keep in mind, I've never been anywhere and this is all new to me. My only knowledge of California is what's on TV

Things just got kinda ugly lookin again...I guess I'll snack on some delicious hostess donuts.
Mmm.. tasty and messy!

Camp Pendleton USMC: Seeing humvees all over... choppers hovering over the water..a big ship. Pretty cool. My brother in law..James would like this part. :-)

HAHA! There are road signs that show border jumpers running across the road. Too funny!

This is getting long. I don't know who all is reading this.. but I'm enjoying the updates. Post more later.