It is travel day, check out is at 11, so enough time to catch up on the blog a send some files to Chris . Vegas was nice, but once you have been a few times, it is a little boring. Mark loads up the gps and we head out of town. It is 200 miles the the venue in Anaheim. We want to see where it is so we can get a hotel. Mark was there in 2002, but we want a place in between this and the LA venue.

We travel about 100 miles before we stop for fuel & food at a small town called Baker, Bobby Baker Mark says. Baker is home of the worlds largest thermometer. We eat at Big Boy, good food and cheap prices.

We continue our journey across the desert with my iPod cranking out Wintersleep. We run into traffic, Mark exclaims ‘ how the F can there be a traffic jam in the middle of the desert!’

The land is barren on our trip to California, we wounder how people can live out here in these little towns, there is nothing out here. Mark and I talk some shop. We all talk about some of the tidbits Mark left on his blog, and how the hipbase will be exploding with speculations. on some of the new concert dates out west and east.

Traffic is moving again, seems to be no reason for the slow down. Were is Ponch Mark say’s, so i start humming the Chips theme.

Sam Robert is on the iPod now. We start seeing signs of civilization. We pass through Barstow, and back to the barren desert sand.

3pm and we are in Palmdale.
There are snow capped mountains to the west. Looks like home.

LA 73 miles.

We start to get into heavier traffic, I am the navigation so I am checking where the next turn is, I screw up and the computer is screaming OFF ROUTE! Dam it gets lippy! I hit the recalculate and we are routed back to the highway we should on.

I spot a sign to the Arrow Head pond, then we see an arena off to the left that has Honda signs all over it, thats right they changed the sponsor of the arena, guess they are still updating some of the road signs. We make our way and, there is Micky! Mark wants to kick him in the but, we laugh and continue on.

We drive by the venue, and continue on. We end up in Santa Fa Spring, good rates and most importantly fast internet. The internet is not wireless and we has no router, so we need to find a computer store. We walk over to a Lowes to see if they have anything and Tony sees a guy on a pedal bike run into the side of a car. Everyone is ok, and Tony and Mark go over to a County sheriff we saw parked up the street and report the accident.

Lowes did not have what we want to we get directions to Circuit City. We grab a Linksys wireless, and we are happy.

We hook up the router and head next door to Carl Jr. I am getting sick of burgers so I had a salad, not bad.

Not sure what we will do tomorrow am, I am sure we will find something to do. We just have to keep Mark away from a curtain Mr M. Mouse.

Good Night.

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