On Monday, July 5th, we left steaming hot Las Vegas and drove the final leg of our journey up to Fairfield, CA. When we were planning our trip, we didn't really take into consideration the fact that there might be some holiday traffic from 4th of July festivities..."some" is an understatement. Try about 3 hours of bumper to bumper traffic through the 111 degree Mojave Desert. For some unknown reason, there is only one road out of Las Vegas that heads towards southern California...all of the other roads head north and then you have to go around the Sierra Nevada. According to Betty (the GPS), going north was going to be much longer, so we went south. Hindsight, the northern route might have been the way to go but oh well. We left Las Vegas expecting to arrive in Fairfield around 8:30 p.m. Our plans quickly changed as we hit terrible traffic from Las Vegas all the way to the California border (about 20 miles of bumper to bumper crazy traffic). When we finally got to the state line in the middle of the desert, we were able to see a single exit off the interstate that had a huge amusement park and apparently everyone had to stop to see it, which is what caused the whole commotion. By now, Betty told us we would arrive sometime around 10:15, but we also had to stop a few times and of course, we hit rush hour traffic in some town in the middle of nowhere, where there was only a two lane road.
Finally, we made it to a chilly 50 degree Fairfield, CA around 11:30 p.m. We decided that we needed to go over to our new home and unload the car, and then head over to our hotel on base, since we didn't have a bed in our new place. Unfortunately, Brian had to be at work at 7a.m the next day...we only had one car, and I had to be at the house for the movers. Soooo, we woke up at the crack of dawn, drove the 11 miles to our new place where I got out to wait for the movers, and then Brian drove back to the base to go to work. I was exhausted so I grabbed my pillow and made a makeshift bed on the floor with some jackets and the dog! She's unbelievably cuddly! Finally, the movers showed up, about 30 minutes late...that's ok though because I got to sleep and extra 30 minutes. When the movers showed up is when the chaos began...the amount of boxes was just overwhelming, and we had no idea where to start!!
Mojave Desert...not a lot to look at and it was huge!
Mojave Desert
Driving through Southern California
Agricultural inspection = biggest waste of government time and money - all they did was wave us through - they didn't even look inside the car at all.
Check out the temperature...and the mpg isn't bad either.
All the crazy windmills
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