Nope, this is not your average Thursday, as everything is working differently. We woke earlier than we had for a while. Caroline had a 6:00 online workshop to attend, and I needed to get out early to wash the car before the heat of the day set in. Though Caroline is “in class,” she’s still working, but as it’s from home, she’s better positioned for our early afternoon departure. From the title of today’s post, you can see that we are embarking on trip 15. When we leave is in question as that depends on the needs coming from her office, and consequently, that dictates where we’ll be staying this evening.
The further we get down the Western road today, the greater the indulgence of incredible tomorrow. Over my iced soy latte, and obviously, at the last minute, I’m working out the details of exactly what we are aiming for and what we’ll avoid. The avoidance is considered as I find no joy in driving through the middle of Los Angeles in the evening, so I’d rather have us track north. If we didn’t want to drive Highway 1 up the Big Sur coast tomorrow, it would make more sense to drive to Tehachapi or Bakersfield and then hit the 101, but we need to spend as much time as possible crawling along that splendid ocean we are oh-so in love with.
Typically, there would be some emphasis on a nice spot to drop in on dinner but on these coastal long weekends that see us going so far north hugging the sea, food doesn’t play such an important role. With the prices of hotels scoped out from Simi Valley over to Ventura, I have an idea of where we might stay tonight but again, this depends on when we leave in some hours. And seeing we are getting ever closer to that time with the need to pack, clean a few things, make an extravagant lunch of sundubu-jjigae, and stop on our way out for an obligatory large iced coffee, I should give this preliminary travel blogging a rest and get back home to deal with those last-minute details.
It’s almost 2:00 p.m., and we are popping out and heading down the road, yippy.
Dinner was at In N Out as we were passing through Indio, California. The photo of Caroline and me in the car was taken on Interstate 10 traveling west after getting gas east of Quartzsite almost 3 hours before this sunset photo, which was also shot from the moving car. Encountering the typical stressors found while driving through the Los Angeles area, we made our way over to Ventura to take a room at the Motel 6 South and fell immediately to sleep.