http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Costa-Mesa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , California , Costa Mesa en-us Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:49:56 BST Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:49:56 BST After months of planning the Road Crew Gabriel Rece Samantha and I loaded up our rented Town and Country van with all of our travel stuff and hit the road. A brief and incomplete inventory 5 digital cameras 1 radar detector 2 laptop computers 3 cell phones 3 mp3 iPod players 12 complete MRE meals 4 sleeping bags 2 tents 4 lawn chairs 4 duffel bags suitcases snacks drinks a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Costa-Mesa/blog-302065.html I can't believe that it's been 6 months today since my arrival home. A lot has happened since then I've been a busy woman These are just a few of the things I've been up to Spent time in Utah visiting both of my parents. Flew to Virginia to be with my sister Erin and her family during the first few weeks of baby Chloe's new life. It was so wonderful being with Erin's amazing family thro http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Costa-Mesa/blog-258700.html The first part was pretty fun. We were still up in the mountainshills west of Flagstaff and started to come down. That made for some fun driving aka truck dodging. Now I understand that theyrsquore trying to save on gas by getting everything out of a downhill they can. Itrsquos still damn scary when yoursquore driving along and a semi comes racing up on your rear and you canrsquot g http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Costa-Mesa/blog-65185.html After 3 relatively uneventful flights we're home at last. I say relatively uneventful because I did learn some things never transfer flights in Vietnam. Its really an odd experience. They had us sit in a corner and wait until the staff could come to us rather than go to them. Nobody would tell us what was going on and no one smiled other than one of the China Airlines officials. I al http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/Costa-Mesa/blog-34770.html