on the road

Traveling through Oregon and Washington wasn't all that exciting. Its mostly like BC except Oregon is a lot flatter as you go south. Very pretty though.
California had some cool places along the way that we had to stop at. The big Sunmaid factory was one of them. Tony and I bought dried peaches and raisins. Very good road treats, especially after eating fast food. Thankfully we didn't do a ton of fast food. We did some fast food in the first day and that did not go over well in a small van. Carls Jr = not good road food. It was pretty amazing to see the portion differences. Carls Jr also prides themselves on the fact that their burgers are bigger than a Big Mac in their commercials. It was pretty good, but we could barely finish cheeseburgers.


This was out my window driving on the I5. Such pretty hills, kinda reminded me of Alberta, but prettier.


mmm Blue Diamond nuts from the Blue Diamond plant. Honey Roasted was Tony's favorite, and also the smokey ones. My dad loves the smokey ones too, and so it was a must stop thing.

Aria's blog had Tonys interesting experience with a McDonald's employee in Santa Clarita:

Tony asked how many shots of espresso they put in their lattes? The guy asked 'what? what was that you called it?' ... espresso....

He knew they were not Starbucks employees, but it was pretty funny hearing someone not know what espresso was.



The first couple days of traveling were not bad. Hard core driving for the most part with some stops every couple hours. The worst part was driving through LA in the dark in rush hour traffic. It took forever to get to our Hotel in Anaheim and it was hot out. That part was kinda awesome. We would watch the temperature reading in the van go up and up as we went south. In LA at 6 pm ish it got to 20 degrees. Felt like victory after hearing that the valley at home would receive snow.

This was close to LA on the I5. So more later on the Disneyland part of the trip.