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We did not rush away from the LAX Marriott this morning. I left Lisa to get some extra sleep while I joined some people for breakfast. As I headed for the lobby, I noticed that "Pole Position" (the ideal parking space for loading/unloading) had opened up again, so I moved the van before going to breakfast. By the time I got back to the room, Lisa had already packed up some of the stuff from the room. I shut down my computer, packed my stuff, and we moved out very easily. We left the hotel shortly after 10 AM.
As we had hoped, aside from slow traffic on I-405 from the LAX area to Interstate 10, we were moving against the commute direction, and we made decent time up to Palmdale, where we refueled and got lunch. (Yoshinoya again, as we like what they were serving and it's not available in Reno.) We then went to the Palmdale train station where we ate our lunch in the van and then took some pictures of the station.
It's a nice looking station.
As luck would have it, an outbound Metrolink commuter train from Los Angeles bound for Lancaster made its Palmdale stop while we were here. Lisa took many more photos than I did, but we have not had time to do anything with them.
From Palmdale, we drove to Mojave, then continued up CA-14 to US-395, through Lone Pine, Independence, and Big Pine. As has been our necessary practice, we made many rest breaks along the way, arriving at the Vagabond Inn just before 7 PM.
After moving in to the hotel, we popped over to Von's grocery store and bought frozen microwave meals to take back to the room where we heated them up for our dinner, allowing us to kick off our shoes and relax.
I know that there are plenty of people who consider 500-plus miles per day to be trivial. Indeed, when I was in my twenties, I took such drives in stride. But after three very busy days of convention, and thirty years after those drive-drive-drive days, even half that seems pretty tiring to both of us.
We'll head for home tomorrow. The weather has been turning colder, but it's clear and should still be a good day for driving. Here's hoping that both Lisa and I get enough rest tonight to safely get the rest of the way home.
As we had hoped, aside from slow traffic on I-405 from the LAX area to Interstate 10, we were moving against the commute direction, and we made decent time up to Palmdale, where we refueled and got lunch. (Yoshinoya again, as we like what they were serving and it's not available in Reno.) We then went to the Palmdale train station where we ate our lunch in the van and then took some pictures of the station.
It's a nice looking station.
As luck would have it, an outbound Metrolink commuter train from Los Angeles bound for Lancaster made its Palmdale stop while we were here. Lisa took many more photos than I did, but we have not had time to do anything with them.
From Palmdale, we drove to Mojave, then continued up CA-14 to US-395, through Lone Pine, Independence, and Big Pine. As has been our necessary practice, we made many rest breaks along the way, arriving at the Vagabond Inn just before 7 PM.
After moving in to the hotel, we popped over to Von's grocery store and bought frozen microwave meals to take back to the room where we heated them up for our dinner, allowing us to kick off our shoes and relax.
I know that there are plenty of people who consider 500-plus miles per day to be trivial. Indeed, when I was in my twenties, I took such drives in stride. But after three very busy days of convention, and thirty years after those drive-drive-drive days, even half that seems pretty tiring to both of us.
We'll head for home tomorrow. The weather has been turning colder, but it's clear and should still be a good day for driving. Here's hoping that both Lisa and I get enough rest tonight to safely get the rest of the way home.
