Sherry arrived home at about 1.15 in the arvo, I was keen to leave ASAP to beat the L.A traffic which I was thinking would be like the Monash Carpark on steroids. We finally hit the road around 2.15, stopping to get fuel, before getting on the Mission St, entrance to the 101. Mission would prove to be an apt street to enter on, as the drive sure was a mission.
Maybe the traffic was bad due to the pumpkin storm?
First off the drive on the 101 - supposedly bypassing the Santa Barbara traffic prooved to be a myth. It was an absolute crawl through the Santa Barbara city limits. I was looking at the estimated time of arrival on the Satnav increase from, first 6.10pm to 6.15, 6.30 and on and on and on.
One of the few quite moments headnig into L.A - kind of near Burbank
It still was fun, although a bit white knuckle as it was my first taste of driving in peak hour traffic around Los Angeles. Traffic was crap really. Sherry said that it was pretty good, but OH REGINALD! I reckon I was in peka hour traffic for a good three hours. Considering the drive to Palm Springs was only supposed to be a 3 1/2 hour trip you get an idea of how crap it was.
This car pool lane action isn't doing it for me. It's Reggie time me thinks.
The ugliest car in the history...
Coupled with an In and Out pit stop our ETA was sent deep deep DEEP undercover. I'm posing numerous theories about why In & Out Burger is called 'In & Out' because it certainly doesn't relate to the speed at which you get your burger. The burgers were sure worth the wait though. You can only order 4 burgers (kind not total) - so it's a pretty basic menu (you think this would speed up the process - but no - they go and slaughter the cow after you tell them what you want). We both had double doubles - double meat and double cheese - but you also get lettuce and tomato on them too. Oh yeah - and make sure you ask for onions. They can kmake or breake a burger. Wow! It was good - 10 times better than the Mighty Dangus which is probably the best meat burger I've eaten in Oz. My stomach felt okay afterwards so that dispelled one theory about the In & Out..
Mmm! Mmm! This IS a tasty burger!
What was really frusttrating was that i was in the Carpool lane. While it did prove to be less stressful as you didn't have cars cutting in and out of your lane it was by no means quicker than the lanes to our right.
We did see some pretty cool stuff on the way. Some overpasses, some cool views of the swmog in L.A at sundown, a brush fire on the side of the road, some really dodgy lane markings on the road, cool colours in the sunset that reminded of an old PC flight sim game, and traffic. Did I mention the traffic?
Dear Sir/Madam, Fire. Exclamation mark. Fire. exclamation mark.
I nearly got cleaned up by a truck on the CA 62 (I think it was), as it pulled into my lane I had to slam on my brakes. Turns out he probably didn't see me as the car we were driving had one bung headlight. Good old U-Save - perhaps they should change their name to U-Crash or U-Die.
The Alien birthing pool
We finally arrived at about 8.10 pm, had a bit of a look around the hotel and then scooted back to the comforts of our room.
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