Surfin’ USA

Road trip !

So over the last week my plans for the holidays have finally taken a concrete shape, after things have been quite vague and uncertain before that.
Anyway, now my good friend Dain will be flying in from Sweden tomorrow (Sunday) night. We’ll probably be exploring Orange County on Monday and visit some of his relatives in Oceanside (60 min south of here). On Tuesday we are then planning to start on a major road trip. The preliminary schedule has us driving along the coast up to Seattle, Washington in four days, then over to Great Falls, Montana in another 2-3 days. That is where Dain’s family is living and where we are planning to spend Christmas. Afterwards we’ll be heading south again, passing Salt Lake City, Utah on our way to Las Vegas, Nevada, where we’ll spend New Year’s. On the 1st at noon Dain flies out again and I’ll be heading back to Irvine.
So that’s basically a 14 day road trip that covers six states and measures in at around 3,200 miles / 5.150 km! And I’m sure it will be a blast!

The only bad thing is that my car’s internals turned out to be in quite bad shape, requiring major repairs that can’t be completed before christmas. That would be bad enough by itself, but at this time it also means that we need to get a rental car for the trip. But after all I think it will still be worth it…

Anyway, I don’t know whether I’ll have frequent Internet access on the road, so I might not write anything here until next year. Also I’ll probably not be able to read and answer emails. Let me therefore already now send holiday greetings to everyone and wish you all the best for 2007!