It was a million times colder than I imagined. Road trip advice #2: Bring layers!
My mom and I met up with my Aunt Dee, her daughter, Stasha, and Stasha's little boy at a breakfast nook called the Flying Ship.
I highly recommend the Morning Sundae. It was like dessert only as breakfast. Imagine organic vanilla yogurt with fresh and dried fruits, walnuts, homemade granola, with drizzled honey on top.
YUMMMM
After a lovely breakfast we were back on the road. The day seemed better because we knew it would end in California (cue Tu Pac).
Pit stop off Route 66 at a diner in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Enter: cutest diner ever created.
The diner had a total of five people in it. Three worked there. Then my mom and I made five. It was so cute and I could not wait to eat some warm home-cooked food! I went with the beef manhattan or as I called it 'the carb meal'. I will post pictures soon but I am having blackberry technical difficulties. None the less, the restaurant was friendly, and creatively decorated following a train theme. They even had a little choo choo train running along the ceiling's perimeter.
After stuffing our faces, and my brief food coma, we were on our way to Cali.
Before we made it to the Golden Coast, we had to cross the desert, but we were prepared. Many people warned us to gas up, get water, grab snack because the last thing you want is to be stranded. However, there are more than enough rest stops and we traveled across in the dark so there was not over heating danger (just sayin). But it is a great reason to grab some Twizzlers.
FINALLY we arrived!!!
(insert picture of me and the Welcome to California sign)
Yes, we pulled over in the middle of traffic and took pictures. Our final destination was Barstow then the next day we drove to Irvine (not a big road trip day so I'm not blogging about it... I'm already far behind in my blogging and need to catch up)
****In the future****
So, that is it for our road trip. It was so much fun! And I am so grateful to have a mother that jumped at the chance :) All in all, it was a roller coaster. I cannot tell you how many times I asked if I was crazy, if we could turn around, or "I just wanna go home"s, but I understood this is an adventure. That is how I am suppose to look at it. Even now in hind sight, while I am blogging on a Saturday night and everyone is out celebrating the Butler victory I am happy to be taking chances.
Mark Twain said it best... "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor, Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
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