6/18/17 - Day 8, Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!  We began our day by fully utilizing our hotel stay with pool time.  
 
We left Watsonville, stopped at a store in Salinas and headed south on 101.  Then we took highway 46 in Paso Robles, and met up with I-5.  It was 105 degrees at a rest stop somewhere around Blackwell's Corner on highway 46.  

  
Three words about this photo - black fleece pants.  In 105 degree weather!  Yes, he got out of the van in the heat and yes, he decided not to wear shorts.  

This is pretty much what we did all day.  
 
    
And here we are heading into LA area. 

And even closer...
 So much traffic on a Sunday evening!  Aaahhhh!  This isn't even rush hour.  Very different from being in the Redwoods.  Of course Henry is loving seeing all these cars! 

We stopped in Burbank for dinner, and made it to Anaheim by 9 PM.  Whew, we did it!  

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