Road trip

The thought process went like this. I do not want to sit at home all summer. I want to go somewhere, but where? Hey Dave let's go on a road trip. Okay just let me finish up with school Brandon. Uh no Dave we leave in four days. Well I guess the end of the quarter is on Friday and you want to leave on Tuesday. But I think that we need a third person. Someone that will instigate things... Done.


So the crew is set the date is locked down the plans up in the air. What car are we going to take? We could rent a car ($400). Brooke- You could just take my car. Brandon- Sweet. I'll put a CD player in it tomorrow. Brooke- And it has 4 x 70 air conditioning. Meaning all four windows rolled down going seventy miles an hour down the road type of air conditioning.

Okay so the plan. Head to Oceanside, surf, visit, enjoy California, then make plans to go to the Grand Canyon and stay in Vegas. If there is time go see Mt. Rushmore but only if there is time.

Here we are on the road driving down towards the coast. It was really a beautiful drive.









Here is a beach that we stopped at to stretch our legs among other things. Nice little town.
I will say one thing about our drive. There are really some nice spots to stop in and rest.


I am not too sure what this place was when I took the picture but I was scrambling for my camera when I saw it. This place was just amazing. The rocky cliffs, the sunset, the ocean, just amazing.











Sunsetting over the ocean on the first day of travel. We drove for another six hours after this. Stopping for the night in a Home Depot parking lot because we didn't want to pay as much as they were asking for a tent site at the KOA outside of town. I slept fine but the other two were not exactly having the most restful of nights. So we only stayed in the parking lot for three hours before going to Denny's at five thirty in the morning. You can only imagine how everyone felt. It was good times.






The sun rises in California. Here we are exhausted yet full, Denny's was good to us. They also provided a "shower" facility. Well they had a sink in the bathroom which made due. Yesterday I spent 18 hours on the road and drove about 1000 miles.













We spent the night in Crescent City. And I took a picture of this because I liked the name of the town we were headed towards.















In the middle of the Redwood forest we turn the corner and one of the guys starts loosing his mind. "Oh my god, oh my god pull over, pull over." In the middle of nowhere, well the pictures explain it all.
















Okay being a teacher this is one of the coolest school related things that I have ever seen. I mean can you imagine how much attendance would shoot up if this is what they road to school?

This is where I will end this. Mainly because this is where the trip went horribly wrong. We took highway one, and although beautiful it takes an extra 5 hours to go the same distance. We darn near wore out the breaks on Brooke's car because of all of the hairpin turns. It was an adventure though.