Woohoo! Day One down. We are in the lovely Bakersfield, CA and its quite an interesting place to be. I took a peek out the window today and saw a ton of oil rigs pumping oil up on the hill. Ah, what a sight to see! Our ride down here was pretty uneventful. I-5 does not exactly provide travelers with exciting scenery. We, of course, got off to a late start. I don't know when we are ever running on time :) We got into the BAK just after 7:00 p.m. and we had pizza and salad waiting for us! Yum. Can't go wrong with pizza right?! It was nice to see everyone again thats for sure. We did have a slight mishap though when someone backed into our travel-mobile (aka Kristi's truck)! Oops. Good thing Kristi and her husband are pretty chill about it. We also got a wonderful slide show of JoJo's pictures of her trip to S. Korea for the International Convention, and China as well. Very cool. Speaking of pictures, I discovered that I had left my camera battery on the dining room table at home. I have the camera. I even have the charger and carrying case. How could I have left the battery at home?! This would have been my first real trip to use my new camera. Sad face. Oh well, at least Rachel was prepared and I will have to steal hers from her. It is also a nice camera and really the first camera that inspired me to take photos so I'm ok with that.
Our accomodations for the night included a camper/trailer. Unfortunately, the "landing gear" didn't get set down so we were rocking all night. I got a little motion sick...it reminded of me of our days living on the Dayspring...a boat my mom's ex-boyfriend owned. A sailboat to be exact. Yes, we lived on it for a period of time. That was also an interesting experience that I could probably write a novel on. Love you mum.
Its morning time and the smell of coffee permeates the air (none for me of course) and there are donuts in the kitchen and fresh french toast! I haven't touched them yet but I don't think I can pass up a good donut. We will probably head out in a few hours to make our way to our final destination, after stopping in L.A. to pick up one more! We will then be six people on this glorious adventure. I can't wait to get there. Champagne reception anyone? Don't know if I will be able to use a computer for the next few days so you may have to hear about the rest of the trip when I return home. TTFN!
I love how you make things sound so interesting, you made Bakersfield sound good, i almost want to go there now, "I took a peek out the window today and saw a ton of oil rigs pumping oil up on the hill. Ah, what a sight to see!" lol, nice and like Joanne said, i wish i had this kind of a writing skill, i might of done better in my English classes
ReplyDeleteWhen I read your blog, it made me cry. You have the unique gift of seeing beauty in the ordinary. Didn't know u & RK were going to San Diego & Hawaii. Lucky bums! I had stopped writing in my blog because the one person who got me into it (Jme) wasn't even reading them. It is pretty boring, but you have to have a life to write about it, right? Maybe I'll start writing fiction again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben and Bekah. Bek, sorry we havent talked in awhile, we forgot to tell you about San Diego! We are going to Maui next month, but we did tell you that one.
ReplyDeleteI must say this sounds like a best seller, you have quite a gift here gurlie, I havent read a book in a long time,and this one I can't put down, I must read on.. :) enjoy yourselves
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