Heading SouthOff bright and early in the Tutumobile for Thousand Oaks to hook up with our old neighbors in Spain, good friends, and traveling companions, Tom & Mary Ellen. They've been to South Africa, Tanzania and Hawai'i since we last saw them, we we're looking forward to catching up over a few glasses of vino tinto before heading for Mexico with them.October 5, 2007An early Friday start puts us in the thick of the Sime Valley Freeway commute traffic heading east at 80 mph in HOV lane. Finally, out of L.A.'s traffic tentacles we make a brief sojurn through Palm Springs on the Sonny Bony Freeway and then featureless speeding through the California & Arizona desert to drop our car at old friends' house in Phoenix and consolidate in one car for the journey south, spending
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