On the Road - Pt 1

Saturday morning, bright and early (well early-ish) Janet showed up and we headed down towards LA together along Route 1, the Original version of the Great Ocean Road.

Janet was not only gracious enough to drive into town and get me, she actually drove all the way down, which made a fun trip even more fun (I was inn charge of car DJ-ing and map reading, thank you very much!)

The drive down the coast, well the first half of it at least, is just spectacular. I took a few pics that I will upload at some point, but they won't do it any justice. You will have to take my word for it I guess, or do it yourself. After lunch we headed into this weird development/community and decided to hit on a few “open homes”, just to see what people are willing to pay millions for in California's Central Coast. We both agreed that even in suburban USA it's rare to see so many different flavours of ewwww...

Finding a place to spend the night was a bigger challenge than we expected, due to the Corvette Convention taking place that weekend and every single room booked for some proud (if somewhat wanky) Corvette owner. We did however strike gold at the Quality Inn motel, partly (we figured) because the lady at the desk was pretty scary-looking and probably scared off some of the more wussy Corvette-eers. She looked like she had a huge struggle with a pair of fake eyelashes that morning and ended up just sticking the whole thing to her eyelids, plastic and all. Checked in and drove off to look for a place to have dinner, only to end up just across the road from the motel at an Italian place that redefined “suburban”. Food was surprisingly tasty, especially since we thought that was the perfect setting to have the bottle of Aussie red (thanks again Qantas chick). And while on the subject - $25 corckage? has the world gone mad?