Southern California

We delivered our load finally late Friday evening. We were offered a load for Monday so we made hotel reservations for the weekend. We drove to Oxnard to the same hotel we stayed in last year and checked into our room...two doors down from last year! We got something to eat at IHOP and then crashed for a great night's sleep.

Saturday we walked next door to the market for cold beverages and just relaxed all afternoon. Then Uncle Robert and Uncle John picked us up for dinner at the Scotch & Sirloin. Great company, great food. After dinner we enjoyed a drink in our room before they had to leave. We decided since it was only a week different from our visit last year, we should make this an annual event!

Our hotel.

Love the beautiful scenery.

We ran a short run from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar to Marine Corps Air Station North Island and then headed 120 miles north to the truck stop (very few and far between here). Tuesday we got a load and headed 40 miles to East LA to pick up the load and some woman hit the truck trying to pass me on the right as I went through an intersection...no damage to me but she caught her rear bumper on a lug nut on the front tire. It took the cops over 2 hours to show up to do the report. We were only 2 blocks from the shipper and when we finally got there, there was no load for us...they had one going somewhere else and it took 4 1/2 hours for somebody to finally decide we were getting nothing. So we drove 1 1/2 hours back to the truck stop and got one of the last open spaces.

So now we are waiting to get out of California and head toward home for my doc's appointment next week and Christmas with Alex. A truck driver apparently picked up some hitchhikers last night at our truck stop and they killed him in his truck on the on-ramp to the highway. TIME TO GO!!!