We're driving the last one hundred miles to Hell-A and the weather is cloudy but nearly 90 degrees (about 27 centigrade). The scenery is less good than yesterday, but still interesting countryside. Sunburnt yellow sweeping hills meet and criss cross each other, peppered with brown shrubs and green trees that give a good contrast with the blue and white sky.
After faffing with bags etc at the motel we ended up leaving late at 9am, and are now starting to feel the pangs of hunger (it's 10am now). Must stop for food soon.
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It's about 7pm now. We arrived in LA about 1pm at the travel lodge. Here we dumped the bags, creamed up, and lay by the pool until 6pm. It was so hot and sunny: perfect weather to savour the last relaxing daylight hours of the holiday. The pool itself was pretty nice, and the dense planting around the outside area gave a nice peaceful feel. What gives a less peaceful feel is the planes taking off every fifteen minutes or so - did I mention we're only two miles from LAX? It didn't bother us though.
Oh, and when we did stop for breakfast earlier, it soon became brunch. We both had a sixteen inch breakfast baguette each - so unbelievably filling. Finishing Emily's was a mistake - felt like we were going to burst.
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We're now at the 'Daily Grill', a nice restaurant only minutes away from the motel. We've just had the meals delivered - huge! Mine has a whole broccoli as the veg!
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After the mains and a chocolate brownie pudding drizzled in caramel, pecans & ice cream we waddled back to the hotel. Then we set out to get a photo of the huge doughnut on Randy's Doughnuts and to return the car. It was a sad moment as they drove the Mustang away. We'd done 60 miles short of 3000 miles in it. It desperately needed a wash. The inside was pretty clean though due to general 'good housekeeping'.
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We're now back at the motel and packed ready to go. Let's hope we have a safe plain old journey ahead of us.
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