Road Trip Day 4

Day 4: California or bust!

Our final day on the road was the shortest of our 3 long days, barely.  It was also the prettiest - least cluttered with billboards and much more visually interesting than much of the rest of our drive.  Unfortunately, the phone-camera-from-a-moving-car shot requires a good imagination.  We'll definitely be back to this neck of the woods for more sustained appreciation.

Somewhere in Arizona

Highlights of this final leg include:

• Colorful mesas rising out of the desert
• Checking off 2 states (NM, AZ) and reaching our destination state (CA). If you're counting, that's 12 states from NY to CA.
• Spotting the following license plates: Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota... bringing our grand total to 47 states + DC and 2 provinces!
• Holding out hope for an Alaska or Hawaii spotting, and grumbling about how not one of the 833,000 residents of South Dakota happened to be driving on our route for 4 days.

• Being appropriately welcomed to LA by standstill traffic on the 605 as we were just miles from our final destination.
• The relief that came knowing that we AND our wine collection arrived without incident in Long Beach, about 6:15pm on Tuesday!

That's all folks!