Cross Country Tour 2K11: Northern Bound: Sunday, July 3, 2011

Today was another somewhat lazy day. Poor Sorna had to go in and work. On a Sunday in the middle of a holiday weekend. For 6 hours. He said goodbye to me at 8 AM and then hello when he got back in the afternoon! I finally got packed up after doing some laundry. Sorna asked if I liked smoothies and we made a Jamba Juice run. From there, it was time to hit the road.

I didn't get very far. But it is good to have the car all packed up and be under way again. While I was driving, I received a call from Sorna. He had placed a picture on Facebook of the two of us at the beach. Let's just say he might be more tan than me. He said it was up for maybe 5 minutes and someone posted a comment. It was something to the effect of I hope John was wearing SPF 1000 sunscreen. The picture is below.

Also, I got to see a BMW wreck out a little bit. It was in LA traffic. There were probably 5 lanes of traffic and I was around the middle lane. The traffic in the slow lane came to a sudden stop and this BMW missed it. I saw brake lights and a violent turn for the shoulder as she tried to avoid the car in front of her. I think she was successful in avoiding the car but there was one problem. This happened under an overpass where there was a nice concrete wall to meet the passenger side of the Bimmer. Ouch!! Now who noticed that I assumed the driver of the Bimmer was a woman... feel free to post a comment below.

I have gone through and added a lot of pics and videos for the Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, and arriving in San Diego. I will add more pics of San Diego soon.

My mileage reading was 74,895 when I pulled into Sorna's place last Saturday. When I left, it was at 75,525. During the week, I did manage to put 630 miles on the car.

Mileage: Starting 75,525 & Ending 75,717 = 192 miles
Stayed in Thousand Oaks, CA
States Visited: California

Sorna and I at the beach...