Jeep Adventure- Day 1

On February 18 Andy and I went on an adventure to purchase a jeep. We hopped on a plane to California, bought the jeep and drove it home. Now, it wouldn't be a true adventure if that was all we did...

Our flight left Thursday evening at 8:45 (30 minutes late) and arrived at LAX at 9:50. Of course 9:50pm in L.A. is almost midnight our time and I typically go to bed at 10. However, we weren't even close to bedtime! When we got off our plane we had to go rent our car from Hertz. Now, I assumed we would go down the terminal to the Hertz counter and pick up our car. I am sure you have heard what assumptions do. We stopped and asked a security guard where we needed to go to get our rental car.

"Just go down the stairs and outside."

It sounded simple enough... When we got outside, we saw madness all around us. Cars swerving around, honking at each other and almost hitting each other. We saw a neon sign that said "Rental Cars" and found out that we needed to flag down the Hertz shuttle bus to get our car. The shuttle took us to the Hertz location where we then had to wait in line for about an hour for our car. Then we started our 2 hour drive to Hemet, California.

I am sure it won't surprise anyone that the traffic was crazy, being that we were in L.A. However, I did not expect it to be as crazy as it was at nearly midnight local time. I sure know that Kellogg isn't that busy at midnight! We were having to go nearly 90mph just to keep up with traffic. At one point there was even a cop pass us like we were standing still. He had to have been going at least 120! We didn't even stop until we got to our hotel 2 hours later. At one point during our drive we ran into a dense fog. So dense that people were slowing down to 35mph and some were even pulling over. We were driving slow and cautious when, all of a sudden, like a light switch, the fog was gone. It was an exciting drive and there wasn't one point that either one of us felt too tired to make it to Hemet.

The front doors to the Best Western in Hemet were locked with a sign pointing us to a side window with bars over it where we checked in. We made a quick trip t0 Walgreens for some toothpaste and deodorant, went back to our hotel and went to bed. It was 1:30am local time (3:30am our time). We crashed...

Tomorrow I will write about day 2 of our adventure. So, stay tuned!