Big Sur, CA + Photos
So I am now writing to you from the parking lot of a place called The River Inn, located at Big Sur California. OH my god it has been a long few days, can you believe that I had no success finding any kind of internet access since we’ve entered Cali?..I mean I had a full signal in Whites Creek TN for God’s sake.
The past few days we have been exploring Cali.
Yesterday was spent all day with my good friend Kristine and her boyfriend Chris, they took us out to lunch and wine tasting…yea, its funny watching people drink and talk about the economy, hehehe!
Anyhow, it has been an adventure just getting IN to cali:
Here is what happened starting from Day 9…
Basically we drove into Sedona at night, slept in the car and then in the morning we just went down to the creek and spent the whole day there, just enjoying the view and the cool dry breeze. Then we drove into Phoenix AZ to visit John’s uncle Jim. He was a very kind man, I totally loved his home. It was very basic, white and blue on the inside, sand colored on the outside, perfect in my opinion.
He took us out for Chinese food, then we all went back to his place and talked about movies, books and technology. Then John and I decided that will make the drive into California that night, we wanted to go to San Diego, and John was like “I’ll drive us all the way there”…we weren’t even out of Phoenix before John started to yawn and asked me to take the wheel and wake him in a couple of hours. So I drove us all the way into Cali, w00t. I stopped at the “Welcome to California” sign, but because I only have a camera phone, and it was dark as hell (even with the car beams on high) the picture came out barely visible, but oh well, it’ll have to do.
A few miles in on Interstate 8 West, there was a check point in which they asked us if “we were citizens”, we showed them our Driver’s License and they said “go on”…yea, I passed through the immigration police =). But just in case I made sure that my passport was with me in the car, but luckily I didn’t need it. Then about 30 minutes later, while we were on Route 111 north, there was another check point. This time they were suspicious for some reason, they had us park the car and sit at a bench, then they brought a dog and had him sniff the car in and out. One of the officers asked me if I smoked Marijuana, and I of course said no because I don’t, Nomad told them that had been smoking cigarettes (which is true). They asked us to empty our pockets…they found nothing. So they thanked us for our co-operation and let us go.
That was fun, all I could think of was “My whole dream was to come to Cali, and once I did, I get arrested”…it was quite the experience.
We drove up a few miles and camped at the Mecca Beach State Park, in the morning (Friday 10/10/08) we got up, I shaved, brushed my teeth, did my prayers by the beach, which the sound of was very soothing.
Then we drove into San Diego, had sushi, checked out the local open mics which sucked ass, then we hit an RV Park and slept in the car again..in the morning we freshened up and met my friend Krissy in Santa Monica, slept that night in the mountains of Santa Barbra, froze our nuts off, got up drove down to Gorda, CA, had some clam chowder and now we are back in the parking in Big Sur where this post has started =)
take that Tarentino! =)
Alright, Photos:
Alright! I hope you enjoy the photos, hopefully the next post will be from Berkeley =)
Take care boys and girls.
Salaam.
