Day 18 & 19 & 20 – Cruisin’ down the 101

Day 18- We started our drive from Portland by picking up a huge pink box of the day old donuts for 5 dollars from this place called Voodoo Donuts.  We heard about it from Lo’s brother who saw it on the the travel channel the night before, so we decided what the heck.  On our way to Grants Pass we tried to stop at a Safeway to pick up some groceries, but were unsuccessful, because as soon as we turned the corner and saw our first glimpse of the Pacific Ocean we all screamed and said “keep drivinggggg!!!”…until Denzel (Lo’s car) had to park at the closest parking spot before we hit the sand.  We all sprinted out of the car ditching our shoes to get our first touch of the Pacific sand and water.  After enjoying our bit of absolute freedom, as we had made it as far west as possible, we got back in the car, got our groceries and headed south.   Once we got to Elizabeth’s friends house we played some hide-and-seek with the kids and even got to pick and enjoy some cherries. We also to feed their sheep and llama!

*voodoo doughnuts*

Day 19- Cotton falls from the sky in Oregon, who knew! We headed into downtown for the day, in which the highlight of our day was going to the old fashioned pharmacy to drink some phosphate soda pop things for only 25 cents!!  We also went to the park to have lunch and feed the ducks, who kind of just looked bored with people feeding them the same bread day after day.  It was fun nonetheless.  We then decided to change our plans a bit and head to the Redwood forest a day early.  We had never seen such huge trees!  We found this awesome campsite right on the beach after driving through “Elk country”…holy moly they are HUUUGE and have funnny furry antler things.  They kind of just stare at you.  Hmmm. We had no idea there were elk in California. Ps- Katrina had no idea that we had entered California when we did like 2 hours ago.  Haha.  We were again successful at starting our fire and made dinner to eat on the beach while watching the gorgeous Cali sunset and even had hot chocolate for later!  Ps- we also had soo much room to sleep because we had 2 tents!! (although still both from Walmart.)

*we made it!!!*

*beach sunset*

Day 20- Car ride…greatly underestimated the time to drive…12 hours later = San Francisco.  Wooo.  Buttt the coastal drive was beautiful the whole way, sea cliffs, redwoods, beaches, everything we had hoped for. We even detoured a bit to drive through a tree, yess through a Redwood, almost didn’t fit.  The best part of our day was when we realized that the Golden Gate Bridge is a part of the 101 Freeway, we all screamed as we drove across, not believing that we were really actually on it, which also led us to not see any signs about the inevitable toll at the end of the bridge, oooops.   We  had to all frantically search our change purses and ended up paying the last 10 cents in pennies, the lady hated us and so did everyone else in our toll line.  As we were leaving, she even said, “Now go get your broke ***es home.”  Fill in the blank…but she laughed and said she was totally kidding. Hahaha.  So we are now tired but well fed and safe in Denise’s cousin’s house and will be ready to conquer the city tomorrow.

*bahh here goes nothing*

From the land of fruits and nuts, goodnight,

Lo, D, Eliz (and Kat, kind of)

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5