Hampton Inn & Suites Temecula, Ca

I love Oceanside California. If I was American, I'd live here!

Oceanside is not a big city but a smaller one with alot of small town charm. Being close to an army base there are many cute barber shops with the red and white twirling things out front. I would love to walk along the beach and pier in the warm breeze all evening. I'd meet many fishermen and their young families fishing off the pier and catching all sorts of fish and crabs. So the next day I shopped at the local ...

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I made it back on Thursday at 7pm. Total mileage logged: 7K+. Miles run for the last two days: 2,100. I rode from Tuscalossa AL to Van Horn TX on wednesay, that was 1,150 miles and took 20hours. The next day, I went from 120 miles east of El Paso Texas to Redlands CA. I think that was about 13 hours. It was sooo hot in AZ and CA! I had to ride organ-donor style for the last 4 or 5 hours...no riding jacket, just a ...

September 8, 2009 (Tuesday) – Madera, CA (310 miles)

Oh, my goodness, what a drive. I thought I'd been teleported to West Texas but instead of oil rigs, all we saw today was one grove of trees after another. But, honestly now, don’t you think there should be a law that farmers have to put up signs along the freeway to tell you what they are? We suspect they were almond trees, but as slight as our arbor skills are, you could tell us just ...

We rented an AVIS car from Oceanside to drive to LAX. It was much cheaper than flying or parking one's car at LAX. On our return we have reserved a car in Culver City and they will pick us up for $20 which is a lot cheaper than picking up the car at the airport. Just need to put this info into reservation and call the Culver City office once you are at the terminal.

... them and would recommend it Jeff!

We were soon back on the road to Temecula and as we drew close Wendy phoned Cheryl to say we were nearly there and we would go straight to the winery to meet her. We did make one small detour though, it wasn't really sat nav's fault, we weren't concentrating as we should have been. Sat nav directed us to turn left at what we assumed was the next lights, but in actual fact it should have been two lights down ...

... working mine! It's really neat to see how they locate and blast out the crystal deposits. Later that same day, they planned to blast out a new section but, we weren't allowed to hang around. : ( After such an amazing trip, this will be my final adventure. It's time to push on home and prepare for my big move. I have one last blog entry to make and this will mark the final chapter in this epic tale. ; ) ~JQ

Well my wonderful family and friends, the time that I have awaited for a long time now has arrived. Early tommorow morning I will be boarding a plane to depart for my year long Study Abroad program in Spain. As long as I have waited for Tuesday (tommorow) to finally get here, it is still a very surreal feeling that I have right now about all this. I feel very fortunate that I had the opportunity to stay with my parents this last month and spend some good times with them ...

Well, while in LA i met up with my net friend Cavin/Kavin...not sure of hte spelling just at the moment, sorry! He is a great guy, he showed me around his uni, UCLA and took me to the two disney land parks in anneheim. I have quite a few pics, and one video of him doin a parade there. Disney land was fun, its a bit kiddie, but its fun to see all ur favourite characters and there are some fun rides too. Once u accept the cheesiness its great! haha

... make an appointment with a doctor first. We duly went to the nearest surgery, but found that you could only make appointments over the phone and just had to ring through with a desired time at which to meet the doctor. With Andrea carrying out that task, I caught all manner of buses and trains to Union Station, 'Downtown' to try and arrange our tickets for passage into Mexico. We had planned to take the Amtrak to El Paso, where we hoped to cross the Rio Grande ...