{Travel to California}

Well this happened way back in October, wow that seems so long ago. This is what happened on the way to California. Some of the highlights of the trip are that Evan had his first sobriety test, seeing Dorothy, Toto with a jail bird, a chicken car, In-n-out Burgers, seal on the front window of the van flapping in the wind-sounded like something hitting the car.

Lets start with Evan being stopped at a DUI check point. Evan was driving in the middle of Kansas about 3:00 a.m. All of a sudden we came upon a whole lot of cops in the middle of the street. They stopped Evan and asked if he had any open bottles in the car. We told him no and then he wanted to know where we were going and where we had come from. When we told him we had come from Missouri on our way to California it kind of took him by surprise. When Evan told him that he was headed there for his grandfathers funeral, the cop was a little taken back. He wished us luck and sent us on our way.

We had to stop in Albuquerque to drop off something at Bob's sisters house. She wasn't there because she was already in California. We got there at 6:00 a.m. She told us how to get there and we were on the right road and Bob went up to the door and knocked and nobody was there (thank goodness). He called his sister to ask her where she had the key hidden. He went where she told him, but there was no key. So then she started asking about some of the things in the yard. We discovered that we were at the wrong house. Dyslexia got in the way and he transposed the house numbers. So we high tailed it down the road before the cops showed up and went to the right house.

Next on the trip we were almost to California and had been driving almost 30 hours with no sleep. So keep this in mind as you read on. We were at a gas station and were enjoying the warm temperatures and enjoying being out of the car for a few minutes. We happened to look over at a man getting gas who looked like he was in a jail suit and had hand cuffs around his wrists. Just beyond him was someone who was walking their dog and she looked like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Then we heard sirens coming towards us. After a few minutes, jail bird and Dorothy and Toto got in the car and drove off. Remember this is about a week before Halloween.

Jail Bird getting gas Dorothy and Toto

We had to stop at In-n-Out Burger (the best burger joint in America). In the parking lot we saw this car. Not sure of the story behind it, but we knew we had really lost it after our long journey.