Car Number Three

The day was a long one when we drove to L.A.  just a day of driving down a long straight freeway. It was really busy after we left Las Vegas, after another cruise down the strip, because everyone was coming back from Las Vegas after a weekend away as it was a Sunday.

We got to the motel and settled in and then headed down to the beach for dinner. It was really busy and a lovely end to the day.  It is much warmer than last time we were here.

The next day we headed down for bagels and vanilla coffee. Aggghhh !  They make a great coffee here. We then programmed Cheryl to take us into Hollywood. We walked pretty much the whole of Hollywood Boulevard and bought a few cheap bags to take with us home to fit our purchases in.  We went in and out of some interesting shops in the area and had lunch at a choose your own wok lunch place.

We then headed back to the motel for a while. We decided to head out later to get a car part for the Mustang and a speedlight for the Nikon. These were at two different locations of course.  We were 1 minute from out first destination and came down a hilly street and stopped at a stop sign. We then went to take off and Jerry the Jeep exploded in a loud bang under the car. We tried to drive off the intersection but the car would not go. OMG!!! We turned off the car and got out and oil was spewed out all over the ground. Jerry was very ill indeed. ( the diff is done) CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!!  So we had to wait for a tow truck to bring yet another replacement car and guess what we are back again to a PT Cruiser, silver this time. I am so glad that if this did indeed have to happen then it happened at a nil speed and NOT  on the interstate doing 120km/h.  I took some shots of it on the phone as I didn’t have anything else on me. Luckily we had cleaned out all our things and packed them ready at the motel room for the trip back.

I must say we had so many wonderful people stop and offer help I cannot count, I went into a business and asked for directions to a shop to use the phone and they let me use theirs and I am so grateful to them. I was on two phones at one point and they were wonderfully helpful to let me tie up their lines like that.

What a day.. so after getting into the Cruiser we cruised and got the speedlight of course lol and then headed back to the motel, the car place that we were about 6 metres away from getting to was closed. Grrrrrrrrrr!!!

A yummy chinese dinner calmed us down and we had an early night after all that. Our plans to head to Venice Beach shot. : (

So now I am sitting here in the hotel room full on Vanilla coffee and the best blueberry bagels from a place called Noah’s.  We are about to leave the motel and spend a day around LA before heading to the airport tonight to fly out at about 10pm. 

We have had the most awesome of trips. With 8 states, 12 National Parks and 3 cars down. : ) 

We just have to get through today without breaking another one. 

Thank you to all who have followed my travel blog. I hope that you have enjoyed sharing our travels. I have loved reading your comments and keeping in touch with you all. It has been such a great journey and we have plans already to be back again next year, heading further north this time. Alaska sounds great so I have heard. 

So I am off  to Tasmania in 6 weeks….. lol the count is on : ) 

Car heading out of L.A. 

xxx 

p.s see you back in Oz