back in the usa

On friday we were on a very uncomfortable flight from frankfurt to SFO. I'm not sure where we were flying over, but the only redeeming part of the experience was the view: ice fields and floes as far as the eye could see, we the occasional cluster of lights in the middle of it all.



As soon as we got in, we began ticking off the restaurants that we've missed. So far, this has consisted of Ch'Am (thai) and In-N-out. We spent saturday getting ready for our road trip, and drove down to Vegas on sunday. It took a really long time, due to our somewhat euro-minded missing of the fact that sunday was the end of thanksgiving weekend. There were huge traffic jams on I-5

We continued on SR58, past the ominous looking Rocket Propulsion Laboratory and a big complex at the interseciton of 58 and 395 that we couldnt figure out the purpose or name of. The traffic continued, but thankfully in the opposite direction and at one point we even saw some people get fed up and drive their SUVs offroad on a dirt track than ran parallel to the road


(it was probably the first and only off road experience for most of them). I didn't think it was possible to improve upon the ridiculousness of the situation until I actually saw one of them try to pass a slower car on the dirt road!

565 miles driven