The past few days have been very busy, thus, I have not updated anything on here. I'm now home and will attempt to catch up on what we did since my last post. This post will include the story and the next will include pictures and videos.
When we got to San Francisco, we knew we needed to catch up on sleep, so that's what we did our first day there. We slept in Saturday morning, then walked around town for a while. Since we were on Lombard Street, we checked out the famous hill first (it's apparently used in lots of movies and stuff). After that, we ate a quick breakfast and looked around some more. We walked way over to the shopping area and checked out what they had to offer. One of the first stores we saw was a Ferrari store. Keith went nuts! Too bad everything was ridiculously expensive. We saw lot of other stores, but honestly weren't too impressed. We're the kind to look for sales, and this was not the place to do that! Afterwards, we walked through Chinatown heading back to our hotel and were thoroughly disgusted. We couldn't wait to get back. We relaxed in our room for a few minutes and went to get a seaside dinner at The Franciscan Crab, compliments of Grandma Esther and Pop Bob (thanks Grandma and Pop!). I'm not too big on seafood, but it was definitely a nice restaurant. Keith got a bit sick from his meal, but it was a cool experience in general. After that, we headed back and watched Abraham Lincoln Vs. Zombies. We figured it would be so ridiculous it'd be funny... well, it was, but we could only handle so much of it. About half way through, we shut it off and went to bed.
We woke up early the next morning and hit the road heading to Big Sur and LA (LA wasn't originally in our plans, but we wanted to see some things there and hoped the weather would clear up for us). Big Sur was incredible. Hopefully you'll get an idea from the pictures and videos. LA was cool, but like San Francisco was just a big city. I'm more about the natural stuff, and in big cities, you're about as far away from that as you can be. Anyway, we drove through Beverly Hills that night once we finally got there playing some Waylon and then of course Weezer's song "Beverly Hills." That place is nuts by the way. Lamborghinis and Porches everywhere like it's nothing. It was pretty cool seeing all of those awesome cars just out and about. Then we searched for a hotel close to Venice Beach. After some searching, we finally found one and got to bed pretty quick. We knew we had a long day of driving ahead of us.
We woke up around 8 to get a quick view of the beach. It was around 70 degrees and there were about 10 people out in the ocean surfing and others all over skateboarding. I'm pretty sure it was the place where they filmed the old Disney movie "Brink!". Pretty cool seeing that in person. I picked up some sand for some special souvenirs I plan on putting together, and we hit the road again for the longest drive I've ever been a part of.
We drove the entire day, into the night, all night, into the morning, and all day again. We got back home a few hours ago. We swapped up drivers of course, but none of us got very much sleep on the ride. It was pretty intense, but it's definitely good to be home.
I know I'm probably leaving some details out, so I may add stories as they come back to mind, but for now, I'm calling it a night.
Happy 4th of July everyone! God bless America.
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