ready or not, here we come!!

whew, we did it!

we finally got everything done that needed to be done and were able to leave this morning.

we got a bit of a late start - 10:00am, but it was still a start.

we woke to rain,

left under overcast skies,

cruised under bright sunshine

and headed straight into santa ana winds.

typical california weather.

the truck purred right on over the cajon pass

and the trailer behaved itself and stayed right behind the truck like it is supposed to.

we had great views of the valley under overcast skies while we drove across the 210 and up the 15.

(i took some pictures put don't have a adapter for this laptop, so they will follow later.)

it was a weird feeling to know that we won't be seeing this area again until the end of october.

i definitely won't miss the crowds or the 100 degree summer weather.

we were able to get ahold of my mom and

she drove over from lake havasu, arizona to meet us in primm, nv.

we had a nice lunch at whiskey petes.

i promptly lost $20.00 on the machines

mom made a few bucks

john lost a few bucks.

it was nice being able to spend some time with my mom before we left.

we will miss having her come to stay at our house in socal.

hopefully, we can get her on a plane to come up and visit us in wyoming.

mom left to drive home and we decided to avoid the afternoon rush hour in vegas and get a room in primm.

we will leave early in the morning and head up towards the salt lake city, utah area.

it was a nice surprise that the room was only $13.00 because john has a commerical drivers license.

an even nicer surprise was when we took a jar of loose coins that i brought from home to the cashier and found out that it was worth $150.00!!!

woo hoo

i felt like i had hit a jackpot without the gambling.

i took the money straight back to the room and put it out of sight so we wouldn't be tempted to take it back out to the machines.

well, we didn't know if we were really ready to leave this morning,

but once we left and traveled awhile and had a chance to relax when we got here,

we realized we were more than ready to leave.

maybe not phsically ready like being packed with everything we need,

but mentally ready for sure.

we are actually starting to get excited about what lies ahead on this adventure.



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