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Driving from BI to Guaymas/San Carlos

After leaving Bainbridge our first stop was Eugene, Oregon (6 hours) where we had a very nice relaxed visit with Chrissy's sister, Gretchen, for a few days.  It's always fun to catch up, see her friends that we've gotten to know, hear about her glass fusing business,
 and see her new creations. Unfortunately I wasn't into picture taking mode yet so I didn't get ANY pictures of our time in Eugene.

Next stop was San Francisco (9 hours) where it was cold and foggy when we arrived, but miraculously turned warm and sunny the next day! We stayed with Jim's brother, Dave, who lives in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco. We were able to park the overloaded Jeep in Dave's garage and the three of us tooled around in Dave's Yaris. We made a trip to Turlock to celebrate Dave's birthday with his daughter's family, did some of the "touristy" things, did some errands, took care of some paperwork and phone calls and Chrissy's good friend, Bethie, and her husband, John, drove up from Palo Alto to spend a day with us. The city of SF was gearing up for the World Cup Races, Fleet Week, the Blue Angels, the Giants playoffs, the 49ers playoffs, a big Oracle Exposition, a big jazz festival in Golden Gate Park, and a Columbus Day parade. Quite exciting, but we planned our escape at 5am to beat the SF morning traffic and the LA afternoon traffic and it worked!
Dave's Birthday with grandchildren: Maya, Keean and Alleah
We came across a bicycle rally in Golden Gate Park.
Apparently clothes were optional.
Dinner with John and Bethie (middle/high school friend of Chrissy's).
A great little Italian restaurant in Dave's neighborhood of Glen Park.
We arrived at Drew's new American Apparel Distribution Center 8 hours later which is NE of LA in La Mirada.  This has been Drew's focus since getting on board with American Apparel about 2 years ago. It's been an amazing undertaking and it's scheduled to be up and running after the first of the year.
As Director of Distribution he has done an amazing job. We are very proud of him!
Drew at his desk at his new office in the Distribution Center.

We loved this giant map in the employee common area.
We had a longer visit with Drew than we had planned because we found out from Domingo that he was about a week behind in the painting prep. We decided we would much rather spend the time with Drew in LA than to wait in Guaymas for Domingo to be done before we could start putting Loomba-Loomba back together. We parked the Jeep in Drew's garage and used one of Drew's cars. 
It was a fun visit. We had a few good dinners out, spent time at Drew's, took Jane and Kate to the dog beach, had some relaxing down time, had a great evening and dinner with Donna and Ann (Ross) who are old family friends and both live near Drew. It's always such a treat to see them because we have so many common memories of our families together.
Sunset view from Drew's condo balcony in Belmont Shore in Long Beach.

Chrissy with Donna and Ann - the "Ross Girls" - lifelong family friends
whose mother was Chrissy's mother's best friend from grade school to forever. 
We left LA on the 10th of October and drove (10 hours) to Tucson. We left Tucson early the next morning, had an uneventful border crossing, and arrived 8 hours later in San Carlos.
It was a huge relief to breeze through the border because if we had had to unload and reload everything in the Jeep we would have been there all day. When we got to our condo we unloaded the car and it was about 7" higher!

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