Blind Techie

Below, you will see an excerpt from a friends Blog of our Road Trip to San Diego. Enjoy…

Live blogging from the road

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Monday, 01-15-07 12:43 PM AZMT
Well my buddy Norman and I are on the road headed for San Diego today. Norman has this cool high speed cellular internet access thing with Sprint so we’re going 65 down state highway 95 headed south from Quartsite towards Yuma, blogging live from my laptop.

Our next stop is Gray’s Well Road (BLM land) to see the old Plank road. I’ve been wanting to see this thing for years. We just found a geocache in Yuma (No Wheresville AZ).

Okay, feeling sick and I don’t want to puke in Norman’s new car. More later!
2:47 PM PST
We’re in California!

I finally made it to the plank road. It’s one of the old roads used at the beginning of the automobile era, make like a boardwalk. It’s in disrepair and it seems obvious I’m the only person in the world who wants to see it but parts were still there and I can now check it off my list of things to do. Norman and I walked to the top, got sand in our shoes, ears, noses and mouths and headed back to continue our trip to San Diego. As I write this in the car, we have 105…now 104 miles to go, according to GPS (giggle, snort).

8:47 PM PST
Checked in a few hours ago at the Travelodge, had some dinner at Pizza Bella in Old Towne and now (yawn) I’m getting ready to go to bed. Norman and I both got 3 and a half hours sleep last night. I got up with Chris 3:30 AM and went to work with him where Norman was waiting for a switch-off. And now we’re paying for that early morning. Tomorrow morning we’ll grab some tourist brochures, have some cheapo yummy breakfast at Ikea in Mission Valley and then probably head over to the aircraft carrier museum in the harbor. Been wanting to check that out for a while. Here are a few more pics to end this day:

It was really windy through the mountain passes. I noticed someone installed some windmills since the last time I went this way 4 or 5 years ago.

It was also very cold. Cold enough that there was snow on the ground at 4000 feet, just outside of San Diego.

Gas is expensive in California. We paid $2.599 a gallon on this last fillup outside of San Diego. Back in Tennessee I last paid $2.069. Fortunately Norman’s car gets up to 35 mpg.

City driving is crazy. But we were almost there.
That’s it for tonight. Night!
2 comments January 15th, 2007 Submitted by: Bill