We woke up at the hotel in Phoenix. Got a lot of rest which was exactly what we needed. We found out later that the drive to San Diego was longer than we expected. So we decided to go to a desert botanical garden, then visit heart attack grill and then try to head out of Phoenix. The botanical garden was awesome. Full of different stuff that grows in the desert. When we came to heart attack grill the GPS nav stopped working, which for us was kind of a small crisis since it would be impossible to navigate around in LA without it. Heart attack grill was just insane. When you came in there was a nurse who checked your symptoms and gave you advice on which bypass burger you should buy. If you bought the quadruple by pass burger you got a free wheelchair ride out of the restaurant. However me and my dad decided to stick to the double bypass burger which was probably a good idea…I am going to have to spend the next 3 weeks living on water and bread to compensate for that greasy hamburger :p. Here is a youtube video about it if you are interested.

Back on the road we tried to get the gps working but it was impossible. After a while we managed to get the number to Tom-tom and they helped us reseting the hard drive. We stopped to fuel the car and I met a really nice guy from Oklahoma that was heading for San Diego as well. He told me that he had made the exact same trip as we are doing when he was younger and that it was awesome.
I am having a great time actually. Of course there is stuff that is in my head all the time, missing my girlfriend and Texas, concerned about the mileage on the car (I only have 2500 miles / month to drive for, once it get over that its 25 cents / mile) but otherwise its great fun!
Once we reached the California border there were a lot of car inspections, where they checked for drugs, fruit and vegetables and maybe Mexicans, who knows? They had road blocks 3 times on the way to San Diego. In the third road block my dad was driving. Two lanes merged and some younger dudes tried to pass us in the closing lanes. My dad refused to let them in which really pissed them off obviously lol. So when we came out on the other side they had to show us Texans whos in charge around here. They threw a few bottles out of the window. None of them hit our car but you can imagine what would have happened if they did.
When we came down to San Diego the weather sucked so we just stopped on the beach for a while to take some pictures and feel the water. It was really cold, Is it not summer here??
When we came back to the car we noticed that we had left the window rolled down. We were lucky that no one peaked in since the car was full of phones,gps,bags,money and so on. But its a good sign, maybe luck is with us on this trip .
We finally arrived to LA after a two hours drive. I figured that it would be easiest to stay at a hotel close to the airport since thats were we are picking up Stefan. However since the airport is so close to the city and a lot of people are flying out from there all the hotels were full. The only hotel we could get was a holiday in for $150 and they only had single rooms. So instead we looked at the gps and found an Eco lodge around 4 miles from the airport. Payed $65 for a really nice room not so different from the one we stayed in in Phoenix.
I couldn’t get the Internet to work at Eco lodge so this morning we decided to go to Starbucks and eat breakfast and upload the pictures and stuff. You can find the pictures here.
Now we are heading back to the hotel room pick up our stuff and checkout then we are heading to the airport to pick up Stefan. Hope you enjoy the reading and if you have any comments or ideas on what crazy things we should do while we are here in LA please leave a comment.
See you later Over and out / JK in LA

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