Holiday Inn Express Temecula, Ca

... a to point b. If we feel like stopping somewhere else or if we want to continue driving past these places, we for sure can.) <br><br>Next we'll continue our travels up the 101 to Newberg, Or where we'll be staying with Katie and Sam! (Some of the people named one or two of you won't know. They're mostly all from YWAM though) Once we've spent some time with them it's off to Seattle where we'll be picking up Natasha. We can either stay for the night or continue driving. It's about a 3 ...

Guys-<br><br>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 ...

... suddenly realised that although there was a left lane, there was no left turn ..... Angie had to do a 'U' turn unexpectedly, but very ably....... recalculating route!! Nevermind she put us back on course and close to Thornton's Winery she informed us we were approaching Thornton's Winnery ... which amused us. Another phone call to Cheryl to advise of our arrival prompted her to appear from her office and we were all set to do a wine tasting session ...

... straight back to the wine tasting counter. Also, we are starving and do have priorities here. There are no menus and no sign of a kitchen with some Italian chef busy throwing his pasta up in the air. There is, however, next to the tasting bar, these 2 or 3 warming bins. Next to these bins is a sheet of white paper with four circles drawn on it. They are offering for sale - four varieties of, well, it looks like 'hot pockets' to me. Four different flavors of hot pockets ...

... just my size. I'm not a pro or anything so I can't handle huge waves yet. I surfed at a beach break and later on watched the guys surf over by the pier. They had pretty cool tricks. <br>There's a reataurant at the end of the pier named Ruby's, I think many of the piers have one, in California anyway. Ruby's is beautiful restaurant, old fashioned coca-cola posters everywhere and a 1940's atmosphere. There is one of those olden days telephones where the ear and mouth parts are ...

... It was about 1:30 so we figured we should head to the airport for our 3:15 flight. Ummmm....turns out the flight was at 2:15 so we gave Dusty all our liquids and didn't check our backpacks, and amazingly, made the flight with a good 10 minutes to spare. It was actually good b/c the goodbye was so rushed I didn't have a chance to cry in front of my brother. :( Uneventful flight, and I was out drinking a gay beer at Roscoe's by 11pm. Back to reality.

... Blackjack, watching other people win and lose and just soaking in the atmosphere. At about 5.45am I head back to downtown Las Vegas and caught the 7am bus back to Santa Monica. In a way I was REALLY glad to be leaving Las Vegas. I managed a few hours of sleep on the bus but looked forward to the hostel bed when I got back to Santa Monica. I caught the bus back from Union Station to Santa Monica and settled back into the hostel at about 3pm and went to bed for a couple hours.

... grabbing a yellow cab for a 5 minute (and 2 mile) journey to our hotel, which cost us $20! When we arrived we noticed the pool of hotel shuttle buses, with signs displaying their free airport pick-up and drops into various parts of the city. Bizarrely having 'gone back in time', we experienced 21st January all over again, but it appeared to us as if we had merely flown through the night and arrived the following morning. We wandered around the vicinity of the ...

... when I got back so I had a wee nap before Paul came in and we decided to head off to the Lava Lounge - the same bar that Bobby had recommended. It is an Hawaiian theme bar, with 'tiki' type decoration and drinks that come with big umbrellas in them. There was a really cool '70s band, a bunch of white guys in bit Afro wigs belting out disco tunes. Paul and I got chatting to these two girls, Hillary and Marlene. Hillary looks a little like Sheryl Crow, while ...

... by the pool while we worked on our tans. Went and looked at houses at some of the new developments going up just for fun on our way to the wineries. Had lots of fun wine tasting. Back to the pool for more tanning and card playing. Another great day. Day 3 (Sun, Apr 26, 1992) Had breakfast out. Laid out by the pool before we packed up and drove home. Picked up my engagement ring from being sized on the way home. :) Had a great day, a superb finish to a great weekend.