Monday - December 8, 2008

December 8, 2008

69,872 miles on Trailblazer

10:15 a.m. - Just leaving Bob and Carol and their lovely new home. What a beautiful place they have right off the 202 loop freeway and huge big malls all within 5 minutes from them. Very impressive and we really enjoy our stay and felt good about being so close to home and not having to hurry because we had miles to go yet. We hope to be home on Tuesday.

1:30 p.m. - Making our turn from-10 north on Us 95 to Lake Havasu, CA and gassed up on the AZ boarder because gas here is $1.59 gallon and in Blyth CA it is $1.89 gallon. The temp is a nice 70 degrees with smog, cloud covering but it still feels good and warm and nice to be on the West coast again.
3:15 p.m. - There is a gas station here along the road in the desert and gas is $2.79 gallon!!! what a rip off, but I guess if you need gas and you are at least 50 miles from the next station you will pay. We stopped to let Abby run and have a bite to eat with a nice 70 degrees still holding on. We are just getting off US -95 and it is not a good road on the CA side at all! It has nothing on it for miles and miles and you hardly even see a car. I will not travel this road again!.
5:15 p.m. - Finally saw some civilization here in Barstow, CA. We pulled into a Quality Inn and they had one room left. We went and had dinner and we are TIRED. Frank had to fight the wind in the latter part of the day and that is always tiring. We decided to make this a longer day so that tomorrow we will be home early in the afternoon. Whoopeeeeeeee!!!

Drove 534 miles today