Road trip to the border

Now that our family is in driving distance we took the first step (hint, hint). The Smith's were relocating to Ventura, CA where they were completing the acquisition of a practice and we, of course, got drug into the move. We figured we were half way to Uncle Tim's (San Diego), it was Thanksgiving and the car need to stretch it's tires a bit!

So Jed and I packed the rental box truck and I followed him down on Tuesday night. We unloaded, then beached combed and checked out fruit stands for a while on Wednesday until Katrianna "convinced" us we needed to go to "In-n-Out" (I was a little worried for a while that she wasn't going to buy in on it being better than McDonalds - see previous post - but it worked), so of course you don't want to upset a little kid. Nevertheless, Suzanne and Kim endured some serious traffic on Wed which turned a 7 hour ride into a 12 hour event and finally met up with us at bedtime. We had a T-day breakfast that included fresh organic oranges that Bob bought the day before for $.30 a pound, some fresh pastries from the local Tea Leaf and Coffee Bean and some "Joe" as well. Then we set off to see Tim who had prepared a ham and turkey, which we literally ate for 4 days. While there we saw Imperial Beach (a cool pier), the Hotel Del Coronado and took a road trip to the Anza-Borrego State Park, the desert that was 80 degrees in November!

While we were there we found out 2 things: first the cacti bloom in March and it's an awesome event, and they have more then 500 miles of trails designed for "Bajaing" - yes, we're going back. We signed up for an email that announces the beginning of the bloom, and we're going to camp out with Tim - the master camper!