Back on the Road - Albeit Briefly

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Heading South

Off 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 the night in Casa Grande after a long day of driving.October 6, 2007Luckily, our motel boasts the best "all you can eat" restaurant that I've ver seen in the thre primary criteria of price, quality, and diversity. The corporal inflation of the locals packing the place belly-to-belly attest to this as a 350 lb Samoan waddles by who looks like he'd fit in fine as a noseguard in the NFL. We're off early as we need to cover 450 miles south of the border today. We cross at Nogales and gas up (saw $2.51/gal. in the desert yesterday). We are immediately confronted with the Spanish bureaucratic legacy in getting our Mexican customs and immigration permits @ $106 and

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Photos

El Fuerte - City Hall
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