Roads, where we are going, we don't need roads!

Well, not really, we actually need lots of them, but you get the idea. Our first leg of the journey was to Los Angeles. It was interesting going to a place where we have been so many times, lived for so many years and yet were just visitors.

(Don't Look Back: Your Life - one way, the other is "No Longer an Option")

The drive down highway 5 is one of those never-ending roads of nothingness that you think might never end. This time though, as we drove down the freeway, I could not help but think of the similarities to the first time I drove this road. Leaving for USC in the summer of 1998, my family packed up my car so full of food, snacks and drinks that I would have been fed for a month, not just the six hours the drive takes. I remember thinking that first drive down that my life would never be the same, that there is no backwards, only forwards. This time, I had the same feeling. I couldn't help but look at the road as a one way journey to the rest of our lives.

If you are wondering just how not exciting highway 5 is, it pretty much looks like this:

Once we arrived in LA we were able to say goodbye to our wonderful friends and family. We had an absolutely perfect last night with dinner and drinks at the Pink Taco restaurant. Aside from the fact that any food establishment that calls itself the Pink Taco clearly has issues, the food was delicious, the drinks were flowing and the people were the best in the world.

Our next day would be the last in LA and then onto the truly unknown - Arizona!