Day Nine - Tuesday

Today was a check back into reality. It appears that you can be on vacation for about a week before life calls again. Our day was spent basically doing errands. Kathryn tried to figure out some of her loan stuff for school for her post bac classes this morning while I tried to find a Chevrolet dealership to get my turn signals fixed. They were both burned out and we have discovered that driving, especially in California, is dangerous without them. This morning was also the morning my cell phone decided to not let me hear anything on the other end so, alas, another problem to be dealt with.

So, we headed out to find a Sprint store to get a new phone and the dealership to get the lights fixed. We also had plans to go to the Oakland Museum of California.

After a not so friendly or helpful, but nonetheless successful, encounter at the Sprint store we venture to Alameda, CA (just south of Oakland) to fix the car. The people at the dealership restored our faith in the possibility of Californians to be friendly and helpful. We had to wait a while so we walked the streets a bit and then found some lunch at a grocery store. Then we waited some more, but finally the car was fixed. The blinkers work and the oil is changed so it will make it another couple thousand miles back to Milwaukee. In the meantime we called the museum and discovered that they are not open to the public on Tuesdays, so there went that idea.

After our adventure in the much friendlier Alameda we took a trip to Ikea...one of our favorite fun stores. We didn't buy much, but, as always, had fun looking around.

Tomorrow we will head out north up the coast and through the Redwood National Park in northern California. Hopefully it should be a pretty drive. In Oregon we will take a side detour to see Crater Lake and then pick up the freeway again and head up to Washington. We may take another detour and see Mt. Ranier depending on the timing. The next couple of days travelling via scenic highways could prove to be an adventure.

We definitely will not be leaving our hearts in San Francisco.

Quote of the day:
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick

Mormon Fun Fact of the Day:
Mormons beleive that God was once a flesh and blood man who has attained perfection and now lives in the highest heaven and is married.

Questions to Ponder:
How do California drivers get anywhere without killing one another?